Posted on 09/18/2012 2:37:47 PM PDT by dynachrome
Do you agree with Mitt Romney's assessment that 47 percent of Americans see themselves as victims?
Yes
No
(Excerpt) Read more at dailynews.com ...
Yes - 78.77%
I believe the press will be trying to bury this story soon.
FReeped!
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Freeped!
voted!
Gee whiz! All that website is as ads, pop-up ads, ads at the bottom of the screen, ads on both sides, ads along the top so that all you see are ads, and, oh yeah, let’s throw an article or two and a poll in the middle. By the way, did you see our ads?
79.45%!!
Awesome!
Yes - 81.69%
Disagree. The percentage is far higher than that and spans all classes. Most people now get their money from a big pile debt, mostly, and the various socialist factions are fighting over the debt/revenues in politics, media, etc. That’s why Republicans have gone so far to the left, trying, along with Democrats, to entice the same pool of socialist voters (government teachers, government pensioners, regulators, welfare recipients, environmentalist employees, social workers, all).
83.35% !!! (Probably not the result an LA paper was expecting).
Yes
Yes
529 Votes, or 78.72 %
No
143 Votes, or 21.27 %
This is a bit dishonest. I voted yes, but I don’t agree with him. As a retired, social security and military pension receiver, I’m nearly 100% supported by the government (forget that I’ve paid into it). Romney surely has at least half of that 47% voting for him, and he needn’t and shouldn’t write them off. Just because they’re not working or paying the old big taxes doesn’t mean their minds have been pickled.
The way things ought to be
I think Romney’s combining moochers, which you are obviously not, and people who see themselves as victims (91% of blacks and Latinos). Remember, he was talking about The Won’s supporter’s. Since you don’t support him, you aren’t included in the criticism :)
When did you vote? I posted my results before you did and had 83.XX% Yes. Now, I see 84.20 Yes (837 Yes, 157 no)
Nearly 85% YES!
> ...I’m nearly 100% supported by the government (forget that I’ve paid into it).
Since you’ve paid into it, you are partially supporting yourself.
Yes
930 Votes, or 84.77 %
No
167 Votes, or 15.22 %
Yes 84.78%, no 15.21%!
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