Warning

She is older, white and she can't wait to vote for Beto O'Rourke.   While I know for a fact this description fits my 89 year old mother, I believe there are many elderly, politically involved women out there looking for the reincarnation of Jack Kennedy to sweep them off their feet.   50's nostalgia is a powerful drug.  For the same reason she eagerly supports Beto, my mother is lukewarm at best toward the women in the race.  She blames Kirsten Gillibrand for Al Franken's ignominious resignation from the Senate because of documented accusations of sexual assault.  As progressive as she is on many issues, Mom, and I think many women of a certain age don't believe a woman is capable of being commander in chief of the world's superpower.  This is a by product of growing up in a man's world where women were understood to be second class citizens who cooked, cleaned the house, raised children and deferred to the men in their lives.  The political operatives for the various candidates ignores my mother's demographic at their peril.  There are millions of "Grannies for Beto" waiting to pull the lever for a chance to revive Camelot.