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Showing Original Post only (View all)O The Sweet! Sweet Mother Flippin' Irony! Guess what % of vote Romney will have after CA & NY Count? [View all]
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Percent of Electorate is about to drop below 47.5% once CA and NY finish up counting... Leaving, for the History Books, Mr. Mittens with a 47% Average and President Barack Obama with a 51% Average ...........nice.
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Oh, the irony. Looks as if Mitt Romney was right to single out 47 percent of the electorate, just not quite in the same way hed imagined.
As final vote tallies trickle in from straggler districts, Romney currently stands at 47.8 percent of the voteand analysts predict that New York and California will eventually take that number below 47.5 percent. If that happens, history will place the final 2012 presidential vote margin at 51 percent for Obama, 47 percent for Romney.
That would be a bitter final twist for Romney, who saw his position in the polls erode after a secretly recorded video caught him telling affluent donors that 47 percent of the country would never vote for him because they are victims dependent on government entitlements. He later disavowed the comments, but then seemed to revert to them after the election, when he told top donors that Obama took the election by giving gifts to women and minority groups.
Oh, the irony. Looks as if Mitt Romney was right to single out 47 percent of the electorate, just not quite in the same way hed imagined.
As final vote tallies trickle in from straggler districts, Romney currently stands at 47.8 percent of the voteand analysts predict that New York and California will eventually take that number below 47.5 percent. If that happens, history will place the final 2012 presidential vote margin at 51 percent for Obama, 47 percent for Romney.
That would be a bitter final twist for Romney, who saw his position in the polls erode after a secretly recorded video caught him telling affluent donors that 47 percent of the country would never vote for him because they are victims dependent on government entitlements. He later disavowed the comments, but then seemed to revert to them after the election, when he told top donors that Obama took the election by giving gifts to women and minority groups.
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O The Sweet! Sweet Mother Flippin' Irony! Guess what % of vote Romney will have after CA & NY Count? [View all]
trailmonkee
Nov 2012
OP
"Branded! Scorned as the one who ran. What do you do when you're branded,
FailureToCommunicate
Nov 2012
#18
I was freaked out at the time that that large a sample replicated the joke
hootinholler
Nov 2012
#31