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| Despite his rhetoric, Mitt Romney n |
| Despite his rhetoric, Mitt Romney needs the 47 percent to win
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 19-September-2012
6:20:38 AM |
| Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney isn't backing down from a hidden-camera video that shows him disparaging nearly half the nation's voters.
But it was clear on Tuesday that he has a lot more explaining to do if he wants to win over the broad swath of voters whose support he will need to oust Democrat Barack Obama from the White House in the Nov. 6 election.
While Obama's Democrats have focused on the growing divide between the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans and the other 99 percent, Romney gave voice to a split that has preoccupied conservatives during the past year: the 53 percent who pay federal income taxes and the 47 percent who do not.
In the videotaped remarks at a $50,000-a-plate fundraiser in Florida in May - brought to light on Monday by the liberal magazine Mother Jones - Romney equated the second group with those who support Obama.
My job is not to worry about those people, Romney says on the video. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.
But to win the Nov. 6 election, Romney will need the backing of many of those takers, as his vice presidential running mate, Paul Ryan, has called them.
The 47 percent aren't just low-income city dwellers who rely on food stamps, housing support and other programs that traditionally have been championed by Democrats
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