http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/04/15/eveningnews/main688605.shtml
CBS) At first glance Noah McCullough looks like any 10-year-old. Loves
baseball. Hates girls.
"It's just sick thinking about kissing and all that," he told CBS News
Correspondent Jim Axelrod.
But talk to him a little longer. This is no average 10-year-old.
"I'm helping to educate people about President Bush's Social Security
plan," said the member of Progress for America.
Noah is a point person for pro-Bush groups on Social Security, spending
his spring break stumping for Social Security change.
"People keep saying there's no crisis. Well Bill Clinton said it -- and
everybody said yes, it's a crisis. All the Democrats did. But when
George W. Bush says it -- there isn't," Noah said. "I don't get it."
Never mind how much he really knows about the issue. A 10-year-old who
can talk Social Security isn't a bad little weapon.
As for the Democrats, they're working the other end of the age
spectrum: seniors. They get angry and they vote. Sixteen years ago when
Congress changed their guaranteed benefits, they chased after
congressmen and got the law repealed.
Meeting the 10-year-old novelty act's challenge on the other side is a
68-year-old retired prison guard.
"You worked in a prison?" asked Axelrod.
"Yup," she replied.
"How does this compare to your old line of work?"
"The battle's just as hard."
Gwendolyn Vaughn works the senior centers in New York City for AARP.
"You ever have trouble cutting through -- convincing seniors to see it
your way," Axelrod wanted to know.
"Not so much seniors. Some," she said. "The problem mostly is their
children, their grandchildren."
Which is why both sides are tilling some unfamiliar grass roots in this
battle.
Democrats are working younger voters -- where pollsters have seen
support for the president's personal savings accounts.
And the president? Well he's started campaigning with seniors on the
stage to reassure those in the audience. But polls show the president's
losing steam, which is why his youngest advocate is sounding a new
note.
"I don't want it to be so partisan -- that a decision we have to make
-- is not made because of partisanship," McCullough said.
Although so far, that's been lost on the grown-ups.
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