Who is to blame? Mainly the political parties, at both the state and national level, who have a major say in determining congressional nominees. The most obvious case this time around is in the Colorado race, where Democrats had several viable contenders against Gardner, a weak incumbent, before the party successfully urged Hickenlooper to run. There doesn't seem to be a big difference between the parties over the last 20 years. This cycle, the group of potential Republican senators I looked at are older than the Democratic crop as of now, but with several nominations still to be decided, it's too early to know how it will play out.
It wasn't always this way. The average age of incoming senators in , and was below 50 years old, and new senators who were 60 and up were relatively rare before the last 20 years or so. The Senate back then, before Majority Leaders Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell both increased the top-down influence of party leadership, was also a more active body, with individual senators far more likely to get things done on their own instead of just doing whatever their party leadership told them to do.
I'm not talking absolutes. It's probably healthy to have the occasional senator who had a long career in some other profession and then entered politics, and that means having some older freshmen members. And sometimes a popular politician will, for any number of reasons, not reach the Senate until late in his or her career but still hit the ground running.
Overall, however, we could use a lot more new senators in their 30s and 40s, and a whole lot fewer of those who are 60, 70 and up. Keep your PAC on track with a centralized system for managing donations.
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Meet the innovative leadership team behind our success. Get the latest news and corporate developments. Develop ideas with senior executives that drive thought leadership. Join a company that values fierce curiosity and radical innovation. As the members of the th Congress took office in January , it was immediately clear that this Congress had reached an important milestone by being the most diverse in U.
Working on this report, we found one surprising statistic. Read on for more details on the age of Congress, and download our th Congress demographics report for the full scoop. The average age of the th Congress is 59 years old and the median is 60 years old.
Older Americans dominate the highest seats of political and economic power in the country, and Americans over age 65 are much more likely to vote and tend to be much wealthier than younger Americans. Americans in their 60s, 70s, and 80s are highly overrepresented in high political office, and the average age of CEOs at their time of hire has been ticking up for several years.
Because of their higher propensity to vote, Americans over 65 are a key target for any politician seeking office, and polling suggests they may be a decisive group in the election.
Here are seven charts that illustrate the power older Americans hold in the country's political and economic life. Like many countries around the world, the US population is becoming greyer.
A Census Bureau projection in estimated that by the mids, there could be more Americans over age 65 than children under age There are a few major demographic trends fueling the aging of the US population.
Meanwhile, birth rates in the US have been slowing for decades , as they have in much of the world, leading to a lower share of younger Americans. According to an analysis from the Congressional Research Service , the average age of US senators in the current th Congress is The House of Representatives is not much younger, with an average age of President Ronald Reagan was 73 in his reelection campaign in , as was Sen.
Bob Dole when he challenged President Bill Clinton in However, Congress is not able to work from home as all voting must be done in person based on current law. The CDC has recommended those over 65 be the most strict in their social distancing, an age bracket that includes many members of Congress. We took a look at the breakdown:. Both are 87 years old. Original Post from Today the average American is 20 years younger than their representative in Congress.
This should come as no surprise, considering that over the past 30 years the average age of a Member of Congress has increased with almost every new Congress. In , the average age of a Representative was 49 and the average of a Senator was Today, the average age of a Representative is 57 and the average of a Senator is
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