Kamala Harris, if elected, will be the first president who is younger than me, and I am going to start collecting Social Security later this year.
I remember when Barrack Obama was elected. He is slightly older than me. I mentioned to my father that Bill Clinton was the first president who was younger than him, but we still didn’t have a president younger than me. He was not amused.
An interesting factoid courtesy of USA Today - this is now the first presidential election since 1976 in which there is neither a Bush, Clinton, or Biden on the ballot;
I realized (yet again) that I was getting old in 2020, when three of the Democratic candidates for president (Buttigieg, Swalwell, and Gabbard) were young enough to be my kid. Granted, I would have been a teen mom, but I was old enough to be their mom nonetheless.
Barack Obama is almost exactly four months younger than me, so Harris would be the second president who’s younger than me. I’m more than ready to quit having presidents who are older.
The median age of US presidents when first elected is 55, I believe.
This is the last presidential election where voters born before 1980 will outnumber those born after. And the younger cohorts are ready for their grandparents to get out of the way.
Obama is a few months younger than me. After that election, my older siblings (six of them) asked me how it felt to have a president younger than me. I said that it is the first time that they had a president younger than them. The oldest sibling was born in 1953.
I was born in September '64 so I looked up her birthday-- October 20. Wow, she’s younger than me as well. Just a little over a month, but still. It’s almost as if…there are generations after mine who will eventually take over for my generation and retire us!
Funny. Obama was 9 or so months younger than me, so Kamala would be the second. Was a tad disappointed to see that she was younger than me - but no spring chicken at 57!
I guess I could collect Social Security now, but I’m waiting a while.
yeah, this time we have the beginning of the boom against the end of the boom. depending on who she picks as vp there may be a proper gen x on the ballot.
i believe there is a bigger difference in the boomer generation than most of the others. in the u.s. the civil rights movement was in the middle of the generation. that really shaped the differences between the early boom years and the late boom years. most especially desegregation.