Photo: 1960/WBBM-TV/Chicago: Barry and Frances visit local celebrity Lee Phillip.

I was speaking to my Aunt Frances in Woodland Hills yesterday. She doesn’t know who she will vote for in the upcoming Presidential election in November.

She was born in Chicago, in 1923, and married my Uncle Paul in 1943. They have been together since he came back from the Pacific, having fought the Japanese on Leyte Island.

“I just don’t think a woman should be President,” she told me.

They had lived in California after the war, and then moved back to Chicago and lived on the South Side from the mid 1950’s until 1969. They escaped after the post-Martin Luther King rioting and moved to the North Side. You can guess how likely they are to vote for a black candidate.

They are Jewish, New Deal Democrats, but strongly law and order, anti-tax, anti-fee, anti-illegal immigrant kind of people. I have met a lot of these older folks, who escaped to the West San Fernando Valley, Calabasas and Agoura and made it into their Masada.

John McCain, soldier, white haired, a survivor of a prison camp, has no affinity for them whatsoever. My Uncle, who is a commander of the local Jewish War Veterans, thinks Iraq was a mistake. They watch the TV and wonder why young Americans are dying.

Health insurance, because it affects them and their offspring, is the single biggest issue they care about. They have lived long, but have also endured the costs and the benefits of our red tape shackled system.

They are patriotic, and grateful for the blessings of America. It will be interesting to hear what lever, or chad, if any, they push or pull in the voting booth this upcoming election.