The White House goes grey
The future president will be a 70-year-old leading 92 million youngsters. Will the leader know how to understand and fulfil their expectations?
Barack Obama was 47 when he became president of the United States, and yet the next occupant of the White House could be a quarter of a century older. In a society increasingly run by millennials, this will pose no small problem.
Bernie Sanders is 74, Hillary Clinton, 68, Donald Trump, 69 and Ted Cruz, 45. If the predictions of statistician Nate Silver and many prominent pollsters are correct, the person who will take the baton from Obama and cross the threshold of the White House this coming January will be in their 70s. The next president will have been born just after the end of World War II.
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