Biden’s Age in Context

This is incredibly facile, I grant you. But if you are wondering why young people don’t really feel in touch with Joe Biden, understand that the man was born in 1942. He is 81 years old. He was first eligible to vote in 1963. If an 81 year old was president in 1963, he would have been born in the Arthur administration. And Biden is about as relevant to the issues young people hold dearly today as someone first eligible to vote in 1903 was to Joe Biden as a young voter.