For older voters, too, a call for change

EDITOR'S NOTE — In the closing weeks of the presidential campaign, The Associated Press is offering an occasional series exploring issues and concerns that will drive voters' decisions. This story focuses on older Americans through the prism of one of the country's biggest retirement communities. THE VILLAGES, Fla. (AP) — The town squares here reliably fill at the same time every day as retirees pile in for singing and dancing. Restaurants offer the same early-bird specials on the same days each week, and patrons wake up to swallow the same pills over the same breakfast. There is a rhythm to life, one often found in the familiarity and comfort of routines. Folks here don't like change. And yet that's exactly what they're asking for. After a lifetime of casting votes for politicians who fail to live up to all their promises,... [read full story]