Exactly! The reason I asked the question was that some are going to argue that Romney's 47% comment was at least partly accurate (but some who pay no income tax probably considered voting for R, until they heard what R said). I think it is obvious that even if R had been 100% factually correct, it was dumb to utter it in public. Sharron Angle again.
That was my immediate conclusion.
Sharon Angle running for NV Senator said on tape “The unemployed are soft getting unemployment comp” in the state with the highest unemployment rate in the country.
She insulted a huge block of voters many she needed (or friends and relatives) who lost their jobs due to things that happened that was no fault of theirs.
She lost her race.
She convinced no-one of anything, except that she was a nut. Completely counterproductive.