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    ^^^ What he said in that interview....

    "Frankly, if I had paid more than are legally due I don't think I'd be qualified to become president," Romney said in July. "I'd think people would want me to follow the law and pay only what the tax code requires."


    There are several opinion and news articles out there about Republicans getting ready for a Romney loss and his causing the loss of house seats in the next election.

    What does this man really have to offer anyone but the super rich?

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    Quote Originally Posted by misskit
    What does this man really have to offer anyone but the super rich?
    Now, now. Go easy on Mitt. He knows hardship. After all his horsey failed to medal in the Olympics. Gotta feel for the guy.

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    ^He's offered Shelly Adelson the chance to become one of the most powerful men in America. A nice gesture from a Mormon bishop to a Likudnik. This could be the kind of beautiful friendship that Meyer Lansky only dreamed of.

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    Quote Originally Posted by aging one
    Best with a chance. Pity about a guy like Ron Paul. who exposed Romney as an idiot in each Republican candidate debate.
    strangely enough, that would not disqualify him from being president

    look at the last republican president

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    Washington Post polls: Obama lead in Ohio, edge in Fla. hamper Romney path to victory

    It just keeps getting worse for Romney. Look at the latest poll out today. From the right leaning Washington Post...

    President Obama has grabbed a significant lead over Mitt Romney in Ohio and holds a slender edge in Florida, according to two new polls by The Washington Post, indicating that there are fresh hurdles in the way of the Republican challenger’s best route to victory in the Electoral College.

    Among likely voters, Obama is ahead of Romney in Ohio 52 percent to 44 percent. In Florida, the president leads 51 percent to 47 percent, a numerical but not statistically significant edge. Among all registered Florida voters, Obama is ahead by nine percentage points.

    The new numbers come one week after a Washington Post poll in Virginia showed Obama with a clear lead there. More than half of all money spent in the campaign has focused on these three states, and many analysts say Romney has to win two of the three to capture the White House.

    The past few weeks have been difficult for the Romney’s campaign, and the GOP nominee’s advisers vowed to hit the reset button this week. But with the first debate scheduled Oct. 3, Romney is under new pressure to get his campaign refocused.

    The new polls add to the evidence that Obama has benefited most from the two parties’ conventions, a series of sharp, long-distance exchanges and a barrage of television ads. Nationally, polls continue to show a close race but with new-found momentum for Obama in the battleground states that are likely to decide the election.

    There are few plausible ways for Romney to win the election were he to lose both Florida and Ohio, and even losing one of them would make a path to victory exceedingly narrow. No Republican has won the White House without winning Ohio, and Florida, with its 29 electoral college delegates, may be even more vital to Romney’s hopes.

    Both campaigns had thought of Florida as potentially more hospitable to Romney than to the president. But Obama’s competitive standing there — benefiting, as he also did in the Virginia poll, from a huge lead among female voters — spotlights Romney’s recent struggles.

    For its part, Ohio has been the scene of hard-fought campaigns the past three elections and is widely seen as a barometer of economic stress. Obama’s lead in Ohio is built in part on generally positive assessments of his job performance and on head-to-head comparisons with Romney on a series of issues. Slightly more than half of all Ohio voters — 53 percent — give Obama positive marks for in dealing with the economy, with more — 56 percent approving of his overall performance.

    Fully 36 percent of all Ohio voters say they have been contacted by the Obama campaign; 29 percent say they have been contacted by the Romney side.

    Matched against Romney, 50 percent of all voters say they trust the president more to deal with the economy; 43 percent say so of his Republican challenger. By a much wider margin, 57 to 34 percent, registered voters in Ohio say Obama rather than Romney better understands the economic problems that people are facing. Obama also holds a big lead over Romney on who is trusted to advance the interests of the middle class.

    There is far less difference, however, in the confidence voters express about whether the economy would improve more rapidly under a second Obama administration or a Romney White House.

    The federal bailout of the automobile industry has been the focus of considerable debate between the candidates when they have touched down in Ohio. The poll shows that nearly two-thirds of Ohio voters say the loans that went to General Motors and Chrysler were mostly good for the state’s economy.

    Still, most voters in Ohio say the economy is in bad shape. Yet even those people do not entirely blame Obama, with just under half of them saying the bad economy is his fault — about the same as the number who point the finger at the state’s Republican governor, John Kasich.

    Just 38 percent of Ohio voters rate the state’s economy as “excellent” or “good.” Among those who do see things positively, most — 68 percent — give Obama at least some credit for it. Nearly as many — 59 percent — credit Kasich.

    In Ohio, Obama holds double-digit leads over Romney as the one earning more voter trust on five other issues, including Medicare, Medicaid, taxes, social issues and international affairs. He is numerically ahead on two others. Romney’s best issue is the federal budget deficit, where the two run about evenly among all voters and he has an apparent edge among those most likely to vote.

    As was the case in the Virginia poll, Obama benefits in both Florida and Ohio from sizable, double-digit advantages among female voters. In Ohio, male likely voters split about evenly between Obama and Romney. In Florida, 53 percent of men back Romney, and 45 percent support Obama.

    In both states, Romney has the edge among white voters, while Obama wins 91 percent of non-white likely voters in Ohio and 74 percent in Florida.

    Obama’s approval ratings in Florida, like those in Ohio, put him above the critical 50 percent threshold. Overall, 55 percent of Florida voters give him positive marks as president and 52 percent say they approve of his handling of the economy.

    One potential opportunity for Romney in the Sunshine State is that he runs about evenly with the president when it comes to who is trusted to handle the economy. But, by a whopping 60 to 35 percent margin, Florida voters say they trust Obama rather than Romney to advance the interests of the middle class. By 14 percentage points, they side with the president as the one with greater empathy toward people’s economic problems.

    The government’s health-care program for the elderly was the focus of sharp debate in the weeks after Romney selected Rep. Paul Ryan (Wis.) as his vice presidential running mate. Today in Florida, the president runs 15 percentage points ahead of his challenger on whom voters would trust more to determine the future of Medicare.

    In general in Florida, Obama’s advantages over Romney on other issues are smaller than those in Ohio, and the two are essentially tied on dealing with the deficit and taxes.


    Polling manager Peyton M. Craighill and polling analyst Scott Clement contributed to this report.

    Washington Post polls: Obama lead in Ohio, edge in Fla. hamper Romney path to victory - The Washington Post

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    Romney still has time to regain some momentum, although he will have to pick up his own dismal performance to do so, as well as deal with a bickering, infighting Campaign staff and Republican establishment. It is, my right leaning friends, a very tall order.

    I don't think it even rated a mention here, but Tim Pawlenty- co-Chairman of the Romney campaign and himself once widely touted as a Presidential candidate- jumped ship, resigning from both the Campaign chair, and the Senatorial race. That just doesn't happen if all is well on the bus.

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    The idea that there are actually thoughtful, undecided voters out there waiting for some kind of reasoned argument in the debates that will tip their decision is laughable. If you are undecided now after the steady barrage of information coming from the campaigns up until now you are stupid. Undecided equals stupid.

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    The Undecided decide most elections. A politician calling them stupid would be a bigger gaffe than Mitt's 47%.

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    a friend sent me this.


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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    The Undecided decide most elections. A politician calling them stupid would be a bigger gaffe than Mitt's 47%.
    Nobody's suggesting that. The media puts them on a pedestal as if they are carefully and thoughtfully deliberating which is total bullshit. They are ignorant, not listening or both.

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    The LA Times just revealed that it appears that Obama pays his campaign workers less than the national average wage and Romney pays his campaign workers more than the national average wage.
    In 2010 the national average wage was roughly $42,000 a year. Yet Obama is only paying his campaign workers $36,886 a year.


    The greedy, evil Romney however is paying his campaign workers $51,500 a year.

    The exact salaries of the Romney workers cannot be determined because Romney is counting on the RNC and the state parties to provide get out the vote workers while the Obama Campaign is apparently paying people at the local level directly. But the numbers above apply to the workers who work directly for the two campaigns.
    Similarly DNC pays it's people $35,394 a year while the RNC pays its people $40,184 a year. It would appear odd that the party that constantly declares it's for the "workers" pays its own workers less than the national average while the party the DNC is always declaring to only care about the "rich"...

    Romney Pays More

    That greedy evil Romney, what dastardly deed will he do next?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Boon Mee View Post
    The LA Times just revealed that it appears that Obama pays his campaign workers less than the national average wage and Romney pays his campaign workers more than the national average wage.
    In 2010 the national average wage was roughly $42,000 a year. Yet Obama is only paying his campaign workers $36,886 a year.

    The greedy, evil Romney however is paying his campaign workers $51,500 a year.
    The exact salaries of the Romney workers cannot be determined because Romney is counting on the RNC and the state parties to provide get out the vote workers while the Obama Campaign is apparently paying people at the local level directly. But the numbers above apply to the workers who work directly for the two campaigns. Similarly DNC pays it's people $35,394 a year while the RNC pays its people $40,184 a year. It would appear odd that the party that constantly declares it's for the "workers" pays its own workers less than the national average while the party the DNC is always declaring to only care about the "rich"...

    Romney Pays More

    That greedy evil Romney, what dastardly deed will he do next?
    The only thing that matters is their severence packages. None of them will have jobs after November anyway.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boon Mee
    The LA Times just revealed that it appears that Obama pays his campaign workers less than the national average wage and Romney pays his campaign workers more than the national average wage. In 2010 the national average wage was roughly $42,000 a year. Yet Obama is only paying his campaign workers $36,886 a year. The greedy, evil Romney however is paying his campaign workers $51,500 a year.
    Just goes to prove he has more money than sense and is clearly not the astute businessman he claims to be when spending other peoples money.
    The Obama workers will get a much higher standard of training and more realistic campaign experience to offset the difference. Obama is more careful when it comes to spending other peoples money.
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    Quote Originally Posted by bsnub
    Obama has grabbed a significant lead over Mitt Romney in Ohio
    18 votes
    Quote Originally Posted by bsnub
    a slender edge in Florida
    29 votes
    Quote Originally Posted by bsnub
    Virginia showed Obama with a clear lead
    13 votes

    Obama now at 247 electoral votes in non battleground states, add the 60 above. Obama has 307. He wins hands down. 270 votes to win.

    Mitt wins Florida but loses Ohio and Virgina, Obama gets 278. Obama still wins.

    Not looking good for Mitt.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Norton View Post
    Obama now at 247 electoral votes in non battleground states, add the 60 above. Obama has 307. He wins hands down. 270 votes to win.

    Mitt wins Florida but loses Ohio and Virgina, Obama gets 278. Obama still wins.

    Not looking good for Mitt.
    True.

    Mitt is behind, assuming that the polling is correct. Since the polling is a combination of different polling companies I'll assume real clear is doing its job - real clear did well in the 2008 election.

    Now, I am getting interested in some Senate races....

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    Mitt Romney: why don't aeroplane windows open?

    Mitt Romney, the Republican candidate for president of the US, provoked an apparently inadvertent storm of criticism yesterday when a joke about open windows on airliners backfired.

    Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney holds up a baby at a campaign rally in Pueblo, Colorado September 24, 2012 Photo: REUTERS

    By Damien McElroy

    10:02AM BST 25 Sep 2012

    Mr Romney, who has a track record of verbal gaffes, had referred to an emergency landing by an airplane carrying his wife during a fund raiser in California. But his light heart objection to windows that “don’t open” was seized on by critics as his latest outlandish offensive against common sense.

    American media websites and blogs filled with mockery of the candidate. The storm scarcely abated when reporters at the event conceded Mr Romney had made a joke, albeit it one that did not translate outside the room.

    During the $6 million (£3.7 million) fundraising event in California, Mr Romney brought up an incident at the weekend when his wife’s aircraft was forced to make an emergency landing.

    He mused that she would have coped better if she was able to breathe outside air during the fire.

    "I appreciate the fact that she is on the ground, safe and sound. And I don't think she knows just how worried some of us were," Mr Romney said, according to the LA Times. "When you have a fire in an aircraft, there's no place to go, exactly, there's no – and you can't find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft, because the windows don't open. I don't know why they don't do that. It's a real problem. So it's very dangerous. And she was choking and rubbing her eyes. Fortunately, there was enough oxygen for the pilot and copilot to make a safe landing in Denver. But she's safe and sound."

    The plane suffered an electrical failure and was forced to make an emergency landing.

    Experts pointed out that opening a window would provide oxygen to fuel the fire and a loss of cabin pressure that could rip the fuselage apart.
    Mr Romney was struggling to fend off criticism of leaked remarks that 47 per cent of Americans who did not pay taxes were dependent on the state and would vote for President Barack Obama.
    Off-topic remarks run in the family.
    The presidential bid by his father George Romney, once governor of Michigan, ended soon after he declared that he had returned from a trip to Vietnam "brainwashed" by the military.
    The aeroplane gaffe comes a week after he was recorded as saying to fundraisers: “there are 47 per cent who are with him [Obama], who are dependent upon government, who believe they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it”
    Romney's visit to Downing Street prior to the London 2012 Olympics was also overshadowed by an ill-timed remark questioning London's readiness for the Games, which won him few friends.
    During the same international tour which took in Britain, Israel and Poland, comments about the differences between Israeli and Palestinian economies led to allegations of racism from Palestinian officials, while the Poland leg of the tour was marred by Romney's senior inviting reporters to 'kiss his ass' after they asked Mr Romney questions.

    Mitt Romney: why don't aeroplane windows open? - Telegraph

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    Quote Originally Posted by Norton View Post
    Obama now at 247 electoral votes in non battleground states, add the 60 above. Obama has 307. He wins hands down. 270 votes to win.

    Mitt wins Florida but loses Ohio and Virgina, Obama gets 278. Obama still wins.

    Not looking good for Mitt.


    not good at all for Dim Mitt: RealClearPolitics - Electoral Map No Toss Ups

    And I think Romney (according to recent Reuters poll) has almost all but lost the lead he had with older (thinking) americans (Dim Mitt down 20 points).

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    Heh, another Lamestream Media FAIL! Turns out Mitt's tax rate is like higher than what 97% of American pay.
    President Obama’s campaign, with a good dose of help from the media, is pushing a claim that millionaire Mitt Romney is taxed at a “lower rate” than someone making $50,000 a year.

    The claim, though, is open to debate. It only holds up in a particular scenario in which both income and all payroll taxes are counted.

    The president’s campaign presumably is referring to Romney’s release last week of his 2011 tax returns, which showed he paid an effective tax rate of 14.1 percent.

    This revelation, as might be expected, fueled a wave of campaign stump speeches and videos. The latest was an Obama Web video blasting Romney’s “strange take on tax fairness.” It included clips of people accusing Romney of paying a lower rate than “average” Americans. An accompanying campaign email said: “Mitt Romney admitted he thinks it’s fair that his $20 million income was taxed at a lower rate than someone making $50,000.”

    IRS data, though, shows that Romney’s effective income tax rate — that’s what he pays as a percentage of his income once deductions and other benefits are factored in — is actually far higher than what most Americans pay.

    And it’s certainly higher than what someone making $50,000 pays.
    IRS data from 2010 shows someone making between $50,000 and $75,000 on average pays an effective rate of 7.8 percent. Even someone making between $100,000 and $200,000 pays a 12.1 percent rate — also lower than Romney’s.

    So what is the Obama campaign referring to? There are a couple possibilities.

    The campaign likely is trying to make the point that Romney’s income — at least the huge chunk of it that is derived from investments — is taxed at a 15 percent rate, while others who earn their money from a paycheck are taxed at marginal income rates going all the way up to 35 percent.

    The latter percentage, though, comes down once deductions and exemptions are included. The Tax Foundation estimated in a report in January that Romney’s rate in 2010 — which was also about 14 percent — was higher than what 97 percent of Americans pay.

    Source

    If the corrupt State-Run 'Media' would report the facts instead of being shameless hacks for the Obama Regime, we might get the straight story, eh?

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    Polls Show Obama Is Widening His Lead in Ohio and Florida

    Here is another piece of evidence that the Romney ship is sinking fast...

    COLUMBUS, Ohio — For weeks, Republicans in Ohio have been watching with worry that the state’s vital 18 electoral votes were trending away from Mitt Romney. The anxiety has been similar in Florida, where Republicans are concerned that President Obama is gaining the upper hand in the fight for the state’s 29 electoral votes.

    Those fears are affirmed in the findings of the latest Quinnipiac University/New York Times/CBS News polls of likely voters in both states, which show that Mr. Obama has widened his lead over Mr. Romney and is outperforming him on nearly every major campaign issue, even though about half said they were disappointed in Mr. Obama’s presidency.

    The polls, along with interviews with supporters and advisers in the nation’s two largest battleground states, lay bare an increasingly urgent challenge facing Mr. Romney as he prepares for his next chance to move the race in his favor, at the first debate with Mr. Obama next week. Mr. Romney’s burden is no longer to win over undecided voters, but also to woo back the voters who seem to be growing a little comfortable with the idea of a second term for Mr. Obama.

    As Mr. Romney arrived in Ohio on Tuesday for a two-day bus tour and the president was set to campaign here on Wednesday, the poll also found potential openings where Mr. Romney could gain support. More voters say he would be better than Mr. Obama at tackling the budget deficit — the only major issue where he had such an edge — and a majority agree with his assertions that the government is doing too much of what should be left to individuals and businesses.

    But Mr. Romney is facing mounting hurdles in these two critical states, which hold nearly as many electoral votes as the rest of the swing states combined. Mr. Romney’s lead among older Americans has shifted toward an advantage for Mr. Obama; his competitiveness with Mr. Obama on who would better handle the economy has dipped into slightly negative territory; more view Mr. Romney unfavorably than favorably — the opposite is true for the president — and majorities say Mr. Romney does not care about the problems of people like them.

    Here in Columbus, where both campaigns are advertising heavily, the sense that Mr. Romney is still failing to connect with average, working-class voters is causing concern among some supporters.

    At the Maranatha Baptist Church, which sits in the middle of an industrial area on the outskirts of town, the Rev. Timothy Kenoyer said that even though he believed Mr. Obama was auguring an era of “socialism” — and that an economic malaise had set into his neighborhood — he was pessimistic about Mr. Romney’s chances.

    “If Romney was a middle-class man, or not incredibly wealthy, that would be a contributor to a greater degree of accessibility,” Mr. Kenoyer said in an interview at his office. Accusing the mainstream news media of favoring Mr. Obama, he said he would vote for Mr. Romney, based more on the Republican Party platform. He added, “He doesn’t fire me up.”

    That tracked with the survey results that found that 48 percent of likely Romney voters in Ohio supported him with reservations or because they dislike Mr. Obama, compared with 51 percent who said they strongly favored him. Mr. Obama is strongly favored by two-thirds of his likely voters, with 33 percent saying they favor him with reservations or because of dislike of Mr. Romney.

    The New York Times, in collaboration with Quinnipiac University and CBS News, is tracking the presidential race with recurring polls in six states. In Ohio — which no Republican has won the presidency without — Mr. Obama is leading Mr. Romney 53 percent to 43 percent in the poll. In Florida, the president leads Mr. Romney 53 to 44 percent in the poll.

    The surveys, which had margins of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points for each candidate, also included a Pennsylvania poll, where Mr. Obama is leading Mr. Romney by 12 percentage points.

    The polls were conducted as the Romney campaign grappled with fallout last week from the release of his tax returns and remarks he made at a fund-raiser in which he bluntly suggested that 47 percent of Americans saw themselves as victims who are dependent on the government. That was the latest in a string of setbacks for the campaign that appears to be sapping the optimism of some of his supporters.

    “Romney needs a PR person,” Natalie McGee, a law student at Ohio State University who supports Mr. Romney, lamented during an interview on campus, where Obama volunteers were working to register voters and rally supportive students.

    With 41 days remaining until the election, aides to Mr. Romney acknowledge that they are not leading in either state, but dispute the characterization that the race has shifted toward Mr. Obama. The political director, Rich Beeson, told reporters aboard Mr. Romney’s plane that the campaign’s internal data showed a closer race, saying, “The public polls are what they are.”

    In Florida, a month after Republicans from across the country went to Tampa for their national convention, about half of the voters have an unfavorable opinion of the party. Several Republican strategists in Florida said that they believe Mr. Obama has an advantage, but disputed it was as wide as the poll suggested. Some polls have shown the race in Florida to be tighter, although Mr. Obama has consistently had an edge in nearly a dozen recent polls.

    With an unemployment rate of 8.8 percent in Florida, some Democrats said they were surprised that the state had seemed to be steadily trending in their direction. Democrats have a voter registration advantage over Republicans in the state of about 445,000, or 10 percent, slightly less than four years ago.

    In the Florida poll, among the those who say they are “definitely” going to vote, more respondents identified themselves as Democrats (36 percent) than those who identified themselves as Republicans (27 percent); independents were 33 percent. The Florida poll found that Mr. Obama holds nearly a 20-point lead among women, while Mr. Romney’s edge among men is about 3 points. The Obama campaign intends to increase its advertising, aides said, to try to keep pushing Florida away from Mr. Romney as early voting begins next week.

    Sharon Whalen, 56, a former travel agent from Dade City who said she and her husband voted for Senator John McCain of Arizona, the Republican nominee, in 2008, said she had developed “a very bad impression of Romney.” She said she intended to support Mr. Obama and was troubled by the Republican ticket’s plan for Medicare.

    “There’s just something about him I don’t trust,” said Ms. Whalen, a poll respondent who spoke in a follow-up interview. “It’s not so much that I don’t believe what he is saying, but I just don’t think he’s for the middle and lower class. He’s more for helping the rich.”

    In interviews in Florida, some Republicans expressed frustration with Mr. Romney and the difficulty his campaign has had seizing on the dissatisfaction with the president. They said that they hoped Mr. Romney adhered to an economic message in the closing stretch of the race.

    “Every day of the campaign that goes by that the unemployment rate, the deficit and the size of government isn’t talked about is a day lost for the Romney campaign,” said Justin Sayfie, a Florida co-chairman of the Romney campaign. “I hope we can figure out new and different ways to talk about these issues.”

    Yet the polls in these two states found Mr. Romney vying closely with Mr. Obama among voters who call themselves independents. And half of likely voters say they are somewhat or very disappointed in Mr. Obama’s presidency, leaving an opening for Mr. Romney.

    Here in Ohio, Mr. Romney’s aides have argued that economic pain is still plentiful around the state and that Mr. Obama’s rising poll ratings are unsustainable. As Mr. Romney’s campaign seeks to play off of economic pessimism, he is navigating a mixed picture.

    The state’s unemployment rate of 7.2 percent in August was below the national average, though some areas are doing better than others. And some independents said Mr. Romney still had work to do to close the sale with them.

    “I think my major reservation is that I just don’t have a whole lot of information about Romney,” Mike Warburton, 47, and an independent of Akron, said in a follow-up interview.

    Mr. Romney’s comments about the “47 percent” of Americans seemed to be undercutting him with other working-class voters here. “This last thing, where he was going on about the 47 percent who are dependent on government, is hard to swallow,” said Kenneth Myers, a Republican who lives in Mansfield and is unemployed. “I think I’m part of the 47 percent he is talking about. But I don’t want to be dependent on the government.”

    http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/26/us...oc.semityn.www

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    ^ That last paragraph says why Romney will lose the election. So many people are have received unemployment and disability benefits because of the lousy economy/no or poor paying jobs. They have worked all their lives, paid unemployment insurance, paid into social security, and deserve help when they need it the most. They haven't paid federal tax because they can't afford to with such little income. Then this jackass running for president disparages all of them, Democrat, Republican, or Independent, in this predicament.

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    ^Don't forget the increased tax credit for dependant children was passed with bipartisen support. This tax credit made many Americans exempt.

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    ^ Right. An even larger group, I would think.

    The number of people not owing federal income tax has spiked because of the recession.

    They do pay other federal taxes as well as local.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bangyai View Post
    Mitt Romney: why don't aeroplane windows open?
    Desperation time?

    When 'ol Mitt cracks a joke the latte-liberals go into histironics about how stupid he is. Heh, 'ol Mitt has probably spent more time on aeroplanes than the Chicago Jesus has on his job. If Mitt has told the old joke about screen doors on submarines the State-Run Media would be taking that as literal truth, eh?

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    I don't notice latte' liberals (at least that is an improvement on liberal white guilt) in histrionics at all. It was an attempt at humour that fell flat, from the unfunniest man in politics (except maybe Ron Paul). Look on the bright side- at least now we know that we won't have to cringe thru' a President Romney trying to be humorous at the annual White House Correspondents dinner, now that would be excruciating.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    I don't notice latte' liberals (at least that is an improvement on liberal white guilt) in histrionics at all. It was an attempt at humour that fell flat, from the unfunniest man in politics (except maybe Ron Paul). Look on the bright side- at least now we know that we won't have to cringe thru' a President Romney trying to be humorous at the annual White House Correspondents dinner, now that would be excruciating.
    It ain't over 'till the Fat Lady Sings so if you're basing your opinion on the 'Polls', heh, might be a big mistake. The only poll out there is the one on Nov 6th.

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