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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]What exactly are folks arguing about?

Romney made the statements and his "stast" were accurate.

The problem isnt the stat he laid out or how he's choosing to "ignore" a demographic. Its the fact that he spoke so negatively about them.

For example, Romney could have said that he's not going to win the black vote because they historically go to Dems and he's leaving that alone and stop there. No problem. hes being accurate in that assessment. Nothing to see here.

Now if Romney adds, that blacks will go for Obama/dems because the party promises them a bunch of things that the GOP wont, because they dont think for themselves etc etc, then its bad.

So again, while the 47% statement is accurate, what was said after that is where the fuck up happened. Folks want to dance around that in attempts to defend romney and while they are crying about putting the statements in context, they are the ones slicing and dicing the statement to fit their own narrative[/quote]

The only part of Romney's statement that is accurate is the narrow point that 47% don't pay Federal income tax. It is not accurate to say that entire group is dependent on the government or sees themselves as victims. It is not accurate to say that they all vote for Obama. The 47% includes the elderly and members of the military, two groups that have plenty of Romney supporters.

It is sort of like saying that 47% of Americans have black hair (I have no idea what the correct percentage is) and that group will never vote for Romney and should be ignored. There is literally no connection between the statistic and the conclusions drawn from it.
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