2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumStrapped to the roof of his own karma: Romney ends up with 47% of vote
With ballots still being counted (ballots are still being counted?) in Maryland, New York and California, Mitt Romneys share of the popular vote will dip below 47.5 percent, and round down to the now-infamous 47%.
Cue the irony.
Says Greg Sargent:
At risk of piling on, a 47 percent finish would represent a perfect conclusion to the Romney political saga. If Romney ran a campaign of unprecedented dishonesty and lack of transparency, virtually all of it was geared towards misleading people about the true nature of his and his partys actual beliefs and governing agenda. This was the case on multiple fronts, from Romneys dissembling about the size of the tax cut hed give to the rich, to his evasions about the overhaul he and Paul Ryan planned for the safety net, to the obscuring of the massive upward redistribution of wealth represented by the Ryan agenda the GOPs central governing blueprint for nations fiscal and economic future.
http://americablog.com/2012/11/strapped-to-the-roof-of-his-own-karma-romney-ends-up-with-47-of-vote.html
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)RichGirl
(4,119 posts)Takers + FOX NEWS viewers = 47%
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)Here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?key=0AjYj9mXElO_QdHpla01oWE1jOFZRbnhJZkZpVFNKeVE
Should be dropping under 47.5 soon