Posted on 09/18/2012 5:14:49 PM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
While Mitt Romney continues to suffer the fallout from a video that shows him dismissing President Barack Obama's voters, or 47 percent of Americans, as invididuals who do not pay income taxes and depend on government entitlements, new research from Gallup released Tuesday shows that the Republican nominee claims the support from more of those individuals than his remarks seem to suggest.
According to Gallup's polling from the tracking period of Aug. 27-Sept. 16, 34 percent of voters whose household incomes are less than $24,000 a year support Romney. Obama easily wins among those voters, earning the support of 58 percent.
As Gallup points out, a significant portion of the individuals who pay no income tax are the same voters in the lowest income bracket, roughly a third of whom intend to vote for Romney, not Obama.
Yeah but no one could call Reagan a businessman. Different people with different skills.
can anyone photoshop a
“no moochers” red circle with a bar universal sign?
So, how the heck does Gallup constantly show Obama aheade of Romney? Gallup must be really oversampling Democrats.
He did clarify it. The 47% he was talking about were Obama diehards who will vote Obama no matter what. And then he has a high floor as well that will vote for him no matter what.
He made no judgments on people dependent on the government, he just said Democrats like government dependency. Sky is blue and water is wet.
He also said it’d be hard to attract the separate 47% of people who don’t pay income taxes on a message of tax cuts. Again, sky is blue and water is wet.
2012- the mother of all oversampling
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The MSM has shed any shred of legitimacy they ever had to get Obama re-elected
I’m poor.
I think Obama is probably Satan’s bathhouse special friend
I think post #14 in this thread gives a hint. Income level does not always equate to political sense and responsibility.
Oh puhlease. Reagan was called alot worse than thurston
Howell.
I guess Thurston Mittens doesn’t need them. Kick their deadbeat asses to the curb. Hell, they don’t work hard enough.
Our guy’s got a mouth full of marbles. Like that comment about the London Olympics. Where’s that chit come from?
That is ridiculous as an explanation.
Look at post 19, you think that he meant to exclude all the Social Security people from the 47%, yet include those making over $200,000?
The statistics from McCain are irrelevant, as Romney isn’t McCain.
I’m not more anti-Romney than anti the opposition. I generally favor Thurston Howell over the Sodom and Gomorrah party. But Mitt needs to take care not to slap good conservative people in the face or a lot of us will start seeing the contest as Sodom and Gomorrah versus Thurston Howell versus Virgil Goode.
Silly comment.
You didn’t know that over 65 is our most republican age group?
Virgil who? Ah yes, the third party candidate with zero traction.
It’s taking me awhile to get wise to what so many others call trolls...
From now on, ignored.
Enjoy!
The last 24-48 hours the web and talk shows have been in a frenzy about how many "real" needy poor there are in that now famous 47% "deadbeats." My unscientific guess was 80% of the total. The headline of this thread inadvertently reveals a very close answer. Two thirds of the lowest income voters, or roughly 67%.
That represents the "professional" full time parasites; the lifelong never-worked-in-their-lives fake poor, the huge army of the Obama indolent, who feel entitled to leech off the producers generation after generation; the 'Rat Hussein constituency.
And they're all too stupid to realize that after they kill this unwilling host, there isn't another one to jump onto.
He did no such thing. But that IS the official 'Rat response. It's everywhere one would expect to find it.
Welcome aboard.
I'm not really sure what your remark means, but here are new statistics on the SS crowd.
"In 2008, voters 65 and over voted for Republican nominee John McCain over President Obama 53 percent to 45 percent, an eight-point margin. The latest CBS News/New York Times poll also shows Romney winning the support of these voters nationally: 53 percent of voters 65 and older support Romney and 38 percent support Mr. Obama."
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