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The Obama campaign clearly feels they have a juicy new opening against Mitt Romney. Within less than 24 hours the Obama team has already seized on a video leaked to Mother Jones where Romney tells a room full of millionaires that 47 percent of the country is with Obama because they are “dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims.”
The Obama team’s first big response is to show the reactions of regular voters watching the video. The simplicity of the attack, merely showing people what Romney claims to believe, makes it powerful.
During the entire campaign Romney has struggled with likability, a perceived lack of empathy for regular voters and the impression that he is an out-of-touch rich guy. This video of his remarks goes a long way to dramatically reinforcing those impressions.
Even if this video doesn’t actually move the polling much, it could still be very bad news for the Romney campaign. The problem for Romney is that he is currently trailing. He needs the polls to move in his direction to win and potentially flip a few current Obama-leaners. If this video merely make leaning voters more committed to Obama, it is narrowing Romney already difficult path to 270.
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Romney should self-deport.
andrea Mitchell and others desperately dredging up Obama ’08 comment, replaying Rmoney staffer’s explanation, etc. None of it changes WHAT MITT SAID.
OTOH, I mostly don’t care bc the vast majority of politicians, these days, are out of touch millionaires & billionaires out to game the system for the 1%.
OTOH, it’s great to see the unvarnished truth of 1%ers with their condescending loathing of the 99% revealed for all the world to see. Slow golf clap for MittBot2012 for finally revealing exactly who he is in all his reptilian splendor.
I’ve slept since 08, got a linky to the comment you refer to?
This could well be the final nail in Mitt’s coffin. Except for the rich and the anybody but Obama crowd, he’s killed all the demographics.
If Obama’s campaign staff isn’t dancing on their desks, their legs must be broken.
Boxturtle (bring in Obama’s 2nd team, this is too easy for the starters!)
Out of touch doesn’t really say it. I met someone who married a multi millionaire recently who was telling me how stressful her life had become; so much so she had begun to see a psychiatrist. I asked for an example of what the kind of stress she is under and she said “I can’t find a furniture company that can make a couch big enough in scale for my greatroom”
http://TwoWealthyWhiteMen.blogspot.com
47% – the part of the political population wherein I reside.
Top 4% – the part of the income distribution wherein our household resides.
0% – The amount of my “government dependency” and “expectation.”
0% – the probability that I would ever vote for Mitt Romney, even if he ran unopposed.
Mitt Romney, blood type caviar+
heh…
Well, the Villagers always default to their false equivalence game, so it’s only natural for Mrs. Greenspan and company to dredge up the “bitter” comments from the 2008 campaign.
This Romney cock-up might be worse than the George Allen comments.
In any event, I await to see how Nate Silver’s number-crunching adjusts things after this mess.
1) Pick Paul “Medicare-as-Voucher-Program” Ryan
2) Use ambassador’s death for political opportunism
3) Insult 47% or more of the American people
Is Romney trying to lose?
This may strengthen Mitt’s numbers and assure the low information voting bloc will show up. I know people who get food stamps (scan) who say the same thing he said.
Smart ad. Good insight about how this might affect polling, voting. Might confirm more than create votes, keep a few people from turning out for Mitt. Guarantee it remains memorable, though.
Fascinating that it just lay around on the inet for awhile.
Yes, I do, too. Low info voters buy into the delusion that the 1% are talking about those “other people” (nudge nudge wink wink), not them. And they somehow think that the 1% smiles upon them & will treat them well, and that ALL of their woes are bc someone poorer than them is getting “something for nothing.”
Such voters are probably doing happy dances right now that Mitt “revealed” how “awful” some of “those people” in the 47% are. w00t!
It continues to amaze me, even though I should be used to it by now.
That’s hilarious. I wonder where furniture size needs would fall in Mazlow’s triangle.
After googleing Mazlow I would say Safety Needs. Imagine the PTSD your guests might suffer if they see a room that isn’t in proper scale.
One could never feel safe or secure in a room with a couch of the wrong scale… Let’s be honest, if this was the type of problem we had we would need a psychiatrist too. Maybe it’s a healthy response to that kind of “stress”.
Couldn’t agree more; once I was in a neighbors house and they had a Stickley lamp that was easily 6″ higher than the next highest lamp. It was almost obscene and of course I rushed out of their as quickly as I could. I still have nightmares.
From my government program luvin’ cronies:/s
Here is what everyone pays in taxes.
My cronies need to take a bow here for their timely statistics.
( Heck, I pay 17% of my bottom quintile lovin’ income in taxes!)
It’s true!
Only one thing missing from your cronies chart…where is the income you sheltered in your Cayman Island P.O. Box from the profits of your business so that they are not reported as taxable income. Stanley tools does this as does thousands of other tax dodging, unpatriotic, freeloading entitled 1%ers.
Obama can’t change the color of his skin and Romney can’t change the content of his character.
Great comment. That one should be a bumper sticker.
obamas people Should be using only seniors and military people who should be reacting to this romney video by stating the obvious” i worked all my life and romney bla bla bla” and “i have been in the military bla bla bla and romney should be ashamed of himself bla bla bla”
everyone sympathizes with poor seniors and poor “heros”.
What’s REALLY stressful though is trying to find the right furniture for that 5th house you’ve bought. It makes worrying about paying the electric bill look like a walk in the park.
Actually I think he should point out in states like Virginia that companies like Boeing and the people who work for them are “reliant on the federal government.” Likewise for those places waiting on the Federal government for drought relief or for help for damages caused by nature.
He ought to fight back on the idea that somehow or another that expecting the government to help promote the general welfare of its citizenry is a bad thing. The Democrats should be making the argument that government can be a force for good if managed well. Sadly, they won’t. They’re to busy parting the responsibilities out to private entities as well.
Thanks AC. It just kind of came to me. I can’t believe no one else has already said it.
Jer…..May I say I too was impressed. They oughta put that on a stamp.
I agree, he should go join his money in the Caribbean.
The Romney economic policy:
How’d ya like it this time, honey?
If “victims” expecting handouts vote for Obama, that should include Romney and banksters.