For older voters, too, a call for change

By MATT SEDENSKY Associated Press Writer 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, those who call this sprawling town without children home say they are hopeful the winning presidential candidate can bring to Washington the reform that they crave. "Everybody here I talk to says we need to change Washington," said Rich Cole, a 65-year-old... [read full story]