# Study: Elderly Trump voters dying of coronavirus could cost him in November

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/study-elderly-trump-voters-dying-of-coronavirus-could-cost-him-in-november/852485>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [April 24, 2020, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/study-elderly-trump-voters-dying-of-coronavirus-could-cost-him-in-november/852485 "2020-04-24T05:02:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 3

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2020, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/study-elderly-trump-voters-dying-of-coronavirus-could-cost-him-in-november/852485/41 "2020-04-26T13:09:54Z")

</div>

> [@Sage\_Rat](#):
>
> I’ve seen this view mentioned by someone in another thread.
> 
> I don’t see it. Trump’s popularity is in similar territory as the belief in God. If things are good, then it’s thanks to God. If things are bad, fortunately, God was there to guide us through it and it would have been worse without him.

The thing is, we don’t need the hardcore 43%. (Maybe some of them won’t turn out to be so hardcore in the face of this year’s events, but we don’t need to count on them.)

We just need _everyone else_ - particularly the voters who might have leaned towards voting Trump if there had been no coronavirus and the economy had stayed healthy. I think we win that group big time, but especially so among the Medicare age range.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![RioRico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2020, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/study-elderly-trump-voters-dying-of-coronavirus-could-cost-him-in-november/852485/42 "2020-04-27T03:02:33Z")

</div>

MrsRico found a funny: “Fortunately for the president’s supporters, bleach and disinfectant bottles have childproof caps.”

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2020, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/study-elderly-trump-voters-dying-of-coronavirus-could-cost-him-in-november/852485/43 "2020-04-27T06:29:13Z")

</div>

> [@RioRico](#):
>
> MrsRico found a funny: “Fortunately for the president’s supporters, bleach and disinfectant bottles have childproof caps.”

Fortunately for the president, too.

[Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/study-elderly-trump-voters-dying-of-coronavirus-could-cost-him-in-november/852485.md?page=2)