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Romney tells us why he lost; Because Obama gifted minorities?
Topic Started: Nov 15 2012, 11:23 PM (850 Views)
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If you're running for elected office and find yourself in the business of blaming the voters, stop. Odds are, you're losing. Or you've just lost.

It was true for millions of Bush-era Democrats, who rallied around What's the Matter With Kansas and its ilk when it seemed the party had lost middle America to allegedly duped "values voters" forever. And it was true of Mitt Romney, who told donors in an unscripted moment this summer that he had written off the 47% of the country that doesn't pay federal income taxes because they were "dependent on government" and would "vote for the president no matter what."

And there Romney went again yesterday, using his first public words since the election to blame his loss on minorities receiving "gifts" from the Obama administration.

"The Obama campaign was following the old playbook of giving a lot of stuff to groups that they hoped they could get to vote for them and be motivated to go out to the polls, specifically the African American community, the Hispanic community and young people," Romney told donors on a Wednesday phone call. "In each case they were very generous in what they gave to those groups."

These comments are misguided at both the micro-statistics level and the big picture level. For the record, it wasn't Romney, but rather Obama who won the white vote in the whitest states, and the reelected president won women (including white women) by a wider margin that Romney won men.

But the most glaring thing Romney missed is that politics is precisely the business of "giving a lot of stuff to groups that [you hope] vote for you." Democrats and Republicans are never not doing this. The Republican primary was an unofficial competition to see which candidate could promise steep tax cuts for the rich to attract ultraconservative voters. Medicare Part D was, in part, an elegant ploy to seal the senior citizen block in key states like Florida. While fighting two wars and growing non-defense discretionary spending, President George W. Bush cut taxes for practically every household by thousands -- and sometimes tens of thousands of dollars. It probably won him some votes!

There is no single reason why Mitt Romney lost six in ten of electoral votes last Tuesday, but it probably starts with this graph: The bloc of voters that conservatives rely on is eroding and the bloc of voters that conservatives used to be able to safely ignore is growing.
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negroplease

Fucking bitch ass sore loser.
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Whozthatgurl
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#ITISWHATITIS
He is just a dumb phucking republican. Not only did Romney loose in Paul Ryan's state of Wisconsin, Romney lost in the state of Michigan where he was born. And he also lost in his adopted state of Massachusetts.

The only state in the highly contested battle ground states that Romney won was North Carolina.

And this idiot along with the rest of the dumb ass republicans really believe that all these people wanted stuff?

P.S. Paul Ryan lost in his hometown of Janesville. Now how much of a looser can you be?
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The SOLE Controller
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Yey, let's get mad at Romney for telling the truth, which no one wanted heard.
Edited by The SOLE Controller, Nov 16 2012, 08:10 AM.
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Whozthatgurl
Nov 16 2012, 07:04 AM
...republicans really believe that all these people wanted stuff?

I can give you a long list of 'stuff' Obama gave to his voters------which is what Romney used to make this claim here.

I have links too, if you'd like them.
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Oh yes ma'am he kicks Congress in the azz, about the Jews...


http://thehill.com/blogs/global-affairs/middle-east-north-africa/240723-obama-signs-israel-security-bill-as-battle-for-jewish-votes-heats-up

...lol...


As if nearly $4-billion per year, ain't already enuff to do whatever they want to do
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The SOLE Controller
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And of course he had something in his goodie-bag, for Whiteskinned Asians

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/11/12/obama-signs-asia-pacific-business-travel-bill/




Edited by The SOLE Controller, Nov 16 2012, 09:22 AM.
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And, of course...on behalf of his grandma;

http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/ballot-2012/2012/09/04/lilly-ledbetter-goes-on-the-attack
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http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/15/politics/immigration/index.html

I have a few more, too...if you need any more ideas of how hard obama goes to bat/kicks Congress in the azz or invokes his Executive Privileges, to ensure "gifts" to minorities...
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Except Black Blackfolk though, of course we get nothing...and it's all Tavis Smiley's fault.
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