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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumRomney's undesirable numbers, for peole white people making less than $50,000, have gone
from 29% two weeks ago to 49% today. Numbers just in via David Gergen on CNN. The whole GOP plan for 2012 has been torn to shreads by OWS and the 99%.
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Romney's undesirable numbers, for peole white people making less than $50,000, have gone (Original Post)
applegrove
Jan 2012
OP
Yeah. He walked into that one with his eyes closed. The GOP should have been aware that people
applegrove
Jan 2012
#3
No. People already were beginning to oppose the 1% in greater numbers. And then Romeny just
applegrove
Jan 2012
#4
Vanje
(9,766 posts)1. ....and that whole, "I like firing people" gaff.
Romney says funny things!
applegrove
(118,682 posts)3. Yeah. He walked into that one with his eyes closed. The GOP should have been aware that people
woke up in November. And that they would look at wealth with new eyes. And with Romney the focus finally, he was himself in the last two weeks and himself is not what people want. They want somebody who doesn't have a tin ear to the struggle of the middle class.
Pirate Smile
(27,617 posts)2. I don't think the Bain storyline has helped him with that demographic.
applegrove
(118,682 posts)4. No. People already were beginning to oppose the 1% in greater numbers. And then Romeny just
cements himself in that demographic... and an unapologetic 1%er at that.
Thrill
(19,178 posts)5. He's just a Phony even dumbass
Republicans would eventually see it. He's the typical stuck pompous Rich guy?