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Bozita

(26,955 posts)
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 01:50 AM Sep 2012

Will Mitt Romney's 47% remark sink his campaign? - Detroit Free Press front page piece

Will Mitt Romney's 47% remark sink his campaign?
September 19, 2012
By Todd Spangler
Detroit Free Press Washington Staff


WASHINGTON -- Karen Ranoni woke in her Romeo farmhouse at 5 a.m. Tuesday, an independent voter whose mind was all but settled: She planned to vote Mitt Romney for president Nov. 6.

By 8 a.m., her decision changed. Ranoni, 38, who does community volunteer work, tends her chickens and takes care of her three young children, had switched her allegiance back to President Barack Obama -- whom she voted for four years ago but thought had too deeply disappointed her to win her support again this year.

She said she changed her mind after watching a just-released video of Romney talking to wealthy donors in Florida, saying -- among other things -- that he didn't care about the 47% of voters who he said were certain Obama voters.

On Tuesday, it quickly became the most damaging foul-up so far for the Romney campaign. Mother Jones magazine released the video showing Romney, at a fund-raiser in May, citing statistics that 47% of earners don't pay federal income taxes and describing those non-filers as "dependent upon government" and people who consider themselves "victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them."

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Will Mitt Romney's 47% remark sink his campaign? - Detroit Free Press front page piece (Original Post) Bozita Sep 2012 OP
Mitt Unplugged is certainly Cha Sep 2012 #1
He sank his campaign last week with his stupidity over the bombing in Libya Lil Missy Sep 2012 #2
With all Romney's dumb comments, Jamaal510 Sep 2012 #3
a relative of mine--who, seriously, is hella smart and hella nice-- renate Sep 2012 #4
K&R because the cartoon melts my heart. JDPriestly Sep 2012 #5
That awkward moment? Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2012 #6

Cha

(295,926 posts)
1. Mitt Unplugged is certainly
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 01:53 AM
Sep 2012

a gift.

Sorry, that woman was disappointed, though.. but, glad she switched around just seeing mitt in his element.

Thanks, Bozita.

Jamaal510

(10,893 posts)
3. With all Romney's dumb comments,
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 02:02 AM
Sep 2012

it's amazing that his campaign wasn't sunken weeks ago and that he's even polling higher than 40%.

renate

(13,776 posts)
4. a relative of mine--who, seriously, is hella smart and hella nice--
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 02:11 AM
Sep 2012

... decided to publicly proclaim her support for Romney on Facebook just last weekend. I could NOT believe it. I certainly couldn't ever try to explain it away. I am not kidding--she's both smart and nice. Truly. I am so confused by her decision.

I genuinely do not understand how anybody who is not in the 1% could support this embarrassment to the human race.

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