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All I know is that the day Mittens' comment about the 47% came to light I started dancing and singing. I was so happy! I just knew he had really hurt himself with that comment, and I was right.
very good and if anyone thinks what Maureen Dawd says, must be 100% accurate, they need to start seeing and reading the other side.
My opinion: Romney lost not because of any one thing,but several:
He couldn't get his message across
He royally screwed up with his 47%. We all have to realize with today's tech anything you say will be repeated.
He just didn't have the ability to reach the average American. This doesn't mean he isn't giving, caring and doesn't have good ideas, he just doesn't have the communcation skills to get this across. He spent a good part of the campaign on the defensive.
Obama, kissed the you know whats of the gay, by his action on gays in the military and gay marriage: he got the attention of Hispanics by offering his version of the Dream Act: he always had the black support, he got additonal support from single women by forcing insurance companies to offer them totally free controceptives including the morning after pill and he is one heck of a good campaigner plus he is the stiing pres..This in itself probably gave him a 5% advantage. I have never seen any studies done to confirm what advantage a sitting Pres has, but I am guessing it would have to be close to 5%.
I heard one political analyst during the campaign say the incumbent advantage was 7% but he didn't state where or how he arrived at that figure.
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