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It certainly is illegal to discriminate based on age in the hiring process in a place of business, and it should be. But an election is not the same thing. It's not acceptable for a campaign to make an issue of it, so I would not expect they will. But voters might still consider it. The one difference between hiring an old person and electing an old person is that you don't hire someone for a four-year term. If it turns out they can't do the job the way you thought they were going to, you aren't necessarily stuck with them. But if you elect someone who is 72 and doing fine, but they start to get a little fuzzy around their 74th birthday, you are kind of stuck. He just better pick a really good VP.
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