I was listening to a liberal radio talk show host and he made a statement that I'm not sure I believe. He said President Obama was losing until the video surfaced. What do you say?
I dont think Romney would have gotten elected no matter what, now. At the time I was watching Faux and thought sure he had won. I dont think that 47% would have voted for him anyway.
You would have to ask him, he wasn't talking about taking money from vets, children, needed social programs. He was talking about the people who WONT work vs people that will not work.Oh? What did he really mean by it then?
You would have to ask him, he wasn't talking about taking money from vets, children, needed social programs. He was talking about the people who WONT work vs people that will not work.
What was the "context" then?
I will have to think about that. IS there really 47% of Americans that WON'T work that arent vets, children, etc? That sounds like a lot.
I was listening to a liberal radio talk show host and he made a statement that I'm not sure I believe. He said President Obama was losing until the video surfaced. What do you say?
I don't think it was THE nail in the coffin, but it was definitely one of them. Along with classics like, "I have binders full of women!"
Oh? What did he really mean by it then?
I was listening to a liberal radio talk show host and he made a statement that I'm not sure I believe. He said President Obama was losing until the video surfaced. What do you say?
Classic example of people looking to get offended.
I think his image was always as a cold hearted business man.I always felt it was Obama's election to lose, but it did seem to be tightening up near the end. This gaff ended all that.
He didn't have time to recreate his image, and it's not clear he could or ever has.
Oh? What did he really mean by it then?
Maybe, but that alone did not likely have that much impact. The 47% comment was largely misunderstood, IMHO, since it was intended to mean that proposed federal income tax (FIT) cuts, which were not applicable to the 47% that pay no FIT, would not help to "buy" their votes. The Romney campaign had bigger screw-ups than that, for example his "simple" 59-point economic plan and explaining that while RomneyCare was good that its close cousin, ObamaCare, was bad.
It did change my mind about voting for him. His tone was dripping with contempt for half of the population. It was the last thing that drove me to vote Libertarian.
He meant that there was no chance of garnering many of those votes and so the campaign should not pander to them.
He did not mean "screw them". It was just a talk about campaign strategy.
It's no different than Obama saying ~"we're not gonna get many conservative votes, so let's concentrate our efforts on the liberals".
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