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Note - Romney did not say that the 47% who pay no tax are the same 47% who are going to vote for Obama no matter what.

His comment was the 47%, locked-in Obama vote includes various voter SEGMENTS, and then he went on to list those sub-groups, one of which is SOME of the people who pay no tax.

By no means was he saying that 100% of each sub-group was a locked-in vote for Obama, or making any linkage (as some have inferred) between low-income workder who pay no tax and those who live off the government dole. He was just saying that collectively, he estimated the number of those locked in for Obama to be 47% (too high, I believe), and that is going to make his task difficult (and therefore, his rich supporters should fork over more dough).

I agree with both of you. But the MSM is trying to, in my opinion, assert Romney can’t win any of this 47% group and by doing this they can suppress voter turnout and paint Romney as only caring for the rich, “his people”.