Romney will probably get 95 electoral votes from ‘moocher’ states. Obama...5

[PoliticalTiger]

Mitt Romney will probably get 95 electoral votes from ‘moocher’ states. Obama will probably get 5.

Mitt Romney’s comments on the 47 percent of Americans who make too little to pay income tax and “will vote for this president no matter what” are causing him some political problems this morning. But could they cause him any electoral problems? Is he really insulting anyone who would already be willing to vote for him?

Actually, yes. The Tax Foundation put out this helpful map of the states with the highest and lowest percentage of people who don’t file income tax returns. The biggest non-filing states are — except Florida and New Mexico — solid red states:


http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra...bly-get-5/

[janedrake]

Thank you for putting this in its own thread, Political Tiger!

Edited to add: As we all know, while those in the deep-red states are probably high-fiving over Romney's remarks - neither they, nor he - think that he was talking about them. In Romneyworld, 100% of Obama supporters are without a sense of responsibility, while 100% of red-staters who have need of a government program are "bootstrappers."

[pappy]

(09-18-2012 03:50 PM)janedrake Wrote:  Thank you for putting this in its own thread, Political Tiger!

Edited to add: As we all know, while those in the deep-red states are probably high-fiving over Romney's remarks - neither they, nor he - think that he was talking about them. In Romneyworld, 100% of Obama supporters are without a sense of responsibility, while 100% of red-staters who have need of a government program are "bootstrappers."

bootstrappers = white folk