So check it:

That's from the national exit poll in the 2010 elections last month. Compare to the 2008 results:

Seniors weren't just more motivated to vote in 2010 (from 15 percent to 21 percent of the total), but they swung 22 points in the GOP's direction -- the largest by far of any group. Apparently, they didn't want Obama's death panels targeting them. Or something.

So how does the GOP repay seniors for their election-winning vote?

The House has rejected a Democratic effort to pay Social Security recipients $250 to make up for the lack of a cost-of-living increase for next year. Democrats argued that the payment was needed to offset the hardships of seniors facing a second consecutive year without an increase. But Republicans contended that the nation couldn't afford the estimated $14 billion cost of the one-time payment, and that the two-year freeze comes after seniors received a significant boost in 2009.

Got that, seniors? The nation can "afford" over $700 billion in new debt by giving millionaires an unecessary extension of their budget-busting tax cuts, but NO SOUP FOR YOU!

Too bad only 38 percent of you were smart enough to see that.