BOCA RATON, Fla. — After 102 years, after a life as an art teacher and a store owner, after seeing war and a depression and presidents good and bad, Selma Friedman sees no reason to muffle her opinion. She wants to see war ended and schools renewed, for manufacturing to return and women's rights to improve. She worries about health care and climate change and energy and fairness.

Friedman's first presidential vote was for Franklin Roosevelt in 1932. When she voted Tuesday at St. Andrews South, a retirement community in Boca Raton, Fla., she went with a Democrat again, marking Obama on her ballot. "He couldn't do it all in four years," she said.

Around the breakfast table at St. Andrews, Romney supporters shook their heads when they considered the past four years. Doris Jacobsen, 76, a retired secretary, couldn't imagine why someone would give Obama their vote. "What has he done?" she asked.

Friedman has heard those arguments. She cannot convince them. She is a couple decades older than most here. Maybe, she thinks, it's just youthful ignorance.