candrew
Well-Known Member
47 after all is a losing number.
wrong forum
47 after all is a losing number.
You know I am starting to think Obama has to be one of the worst candidates for president if he isn't absolutely slaughtering Mittens by now.
I'm thinking it's the other way around. A halfway decent candidate should be slaughtering Obama by now with the way the economy is.
you are sooo tiring ................
Typical Jazzfanz behavior. You're wrong on substance, so you attack the messenger.
From what I heard (and I was doing like 3 other things at the same time), it wasn't a strong double down. He tried to explain his statistic by saying he was including an elderly population that wasn't paying income tax (I'm sure there were other categories he threw in there to make 47% look reachable). I'm not sure how well that will play in Florida.
Can anybody confirm the content of this double down?
I hope that they do double down, and the election discussion focuses on economic issues instead of all the usual social issue diversions.
This we agree on. Focus the campaign on the issues most critical to the country and let the voting apply to the core rather than peripheral bs.
Apparently about 46-47% of the people in the country don't pay income tax.
That is about the same % of the vote he would get if the election were held today.
You can break it down geographically. This thread already provided the research on which states have lots of people who don't pay income taxes. They were predominantly red states.
You can also break it down demographically. In addition to children, don't forget that lots of military and elderly don't pay taxes. Guess who they tend to vote for.
Most of the people in the 47% don't think of themselves as not paying taxes. They might be writing off real estate taxes and school taxes. They might have be paying business , sales taxes, or fica taxes, and who knows what other fees to their local governments. Maybe they are writing off charitable donations.....
I look forward to hearing Romney explain to all those 47%'er Republicans what irresponsible lowlife Obama supporters they are.
We don't have anywhere close to 100% voter turnout, YupYup.
Your fake outrage is not as believable as it used to be.
Northeast is saying that Romney would get 46 or 47% of the votes from those who would vote.
It is self-evident. Where did I imply otherwise?Thanks for clarifying that for him, SITM. That's not what was typed or implied, or continuously driven to failure throughout this entire thread.
You sound like Limbaugh.