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Americans often tell pollsters they want a new generation of leaders. Yet in practice, voters seem untarnished by ageism. Take the Massachusetts Senate primary: Ed Markey, an 86-year-old who has spent half a century in Congress, is comfortably ahead of a challenger nearly half his age in recent polls.
We explain
why voters keep rallying behind old incumbents.
We also looked at a different rivalry this week—one playing out in the soft-drinks aisle. For more than a century, Coca-Cola and Pepsi have battled for dominance. The past few years have been particularly bubbly for Coke, leaving Pepsi flat. But the war between the two fizzy-drink titans is
far from over.
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