Romney campaign donations hit $4.6 million following health care decision

The New York Daily News ^ | June 29, 2012 | Kristen A. Lee

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In a brief televised statement following the decision, Romney vowed that his first priority upon entering the White House would be repealing the so-called Obamacare law.

President Obama may have won the health care battle at the Supreme Court, but Mitt Romney is claiming a victory in the money wars.

Since the court released its stunning 5-4 decision upholding Obama’s health care law Thursday morning, the Romney campaign has taken in a flood of donations from Republican supporters angry about the ruling.

Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul tweeted Friday that the campaign received more than 47,000 online donations totaling $4.6 million in the 24 hours since the ruling.

The surge in small donations indicates that the decision may be an effective weapon for Republicans to mobilize conservatives for the general election.

In a brief televised statement following the decision, Romney vowed that his first priority upon entering the White House would be repealing the so-called Obamacare law. Despite overseeing similar health care legislation while he was governor of Massachusetts, Romney said Thursday that the federal law “was bad policy yesterday, it’s bad policy today.”

In a surprise move, Chief Justice John Roberts cast the tiebreaking vote that preserved the law’s controversial individual mandate, arguing that it is constitutional as a tax.

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No, it is time for Obama to go, we cannot have 4 more years of that evil man.

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I believe he said he would ask Congress to send him the legislature to sign.

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Your analagy reminds me of a saying I saw on a Facebook post that will likely be my voting philosphy for the 2012 presidential election:

“When faced with a choice between 2 evils, pick the one you haven’t tried yet.”