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Posted on 11/23/2012 2:11:34 PM PST by SeekAndFind
What if we told you that the election was decided by a phrase?
You might not believe it, but assume we’re right for a minute. What word would you guess decided the election? Hurricane Sandy?
The answer lies in perhaps the single most illustrative exit poll question conducted, where CNN asked “What is the most important candidate quality to your vote?”
The response options were “Strong Leader,” “Shares Your Values,” “Has a Vision for the Future,” and “Cares about People.” Among folks that chose one of the first three responses, Mitt Romney won between 54-61% of their vote. But, among folks who chose “Cares About People,” Romney lost dramatically – 81-18%.
“Cares about you” is the single phrase that lost Romney the election. Those for whom empathy was the most important candidate quality clearly did not get a sense that he cared about people and worse, many eventhought he was antagonistic towards many Americans. Why was this so?
Romney’s business career, which was the central argument for his candidacy in an election dominated by the economy, was turned into a weakness by the left and the Obama campaign early on, with them portraying his experience leading Bain Capital as one of the opposite of care: harm. Laying people off, taking away their pensions, and destroying communities, Mitt Romney allegedly brought all of these across America.
The Bain attacks were less about vilifying Wall Street (though that too) and more about conveying the message “he’s not like us, he doesn’t care about us.”
Many voters bought into this early portrayal of Romney as one who does not care for people. Others, who did not quite buy into it, still held it as a potential lens through which to consider his future actions and statements.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Special interests, elites:
http://www.wnd.com/2008/02/56745/
I would take nothing for fact, verify everything, I’m not trusting wnd implicitly. It’s just a highlight overview - but it shows the basic idea.
Big money interests from the political left and money-only camps feed Congress everything it passes.
Without doubt, the social security collecting age group, is the most republican voting age group.
While no one can define what the heck Mitt meant with his 47% gaffe, one of the popular definitions, is that it means, those collecting a government check.
...absolutely, we need a new tax system, preferably, a NST type of tax...
....but, as long as we are stuck with the progressive income tax that we have, the very least that should be done before someone's vote counts is to show a lifetime of positive tax payments. Just saying that payroll taxes count...absolutely does not count.... since they are supposedly paying for a couple of bankrupt "entitlement" programs.
..I want what Pres Zer0 wants...for everybody to pay his fair share....and that means that everybody must pay something...
They are today. Or I mean they have in the past few years. Giving you what you think you want is not always a good idea. Unfortunately, America is getting what it wants now.
I contend that no "conservative republican" did nominate him, it was more that we failed to nominate one of our own. We've yet to figure out a way to keep a half dozen fairly conservative candidates from vying for the top spot against one well heeled liberal and make no mistake, Romney was, is and always will be a liberal.
It didn't help that Hannity, Coulter, Rove, et al were pushing liberal Romney from the git go.
Unless the system is changed radically, we'll have a repeat in 2016, it is inevitable.
My post 72, “”Did teacher give us Romney/Obamacare and take our guns away, and try to give us gay Scout leaders and convince us of the importance of being pro-abortion, and tell us why homosexuals need to share foxholes with us?””
Was a description of Mitt Romney’s politics and positions.
I'm serious....
“Anyone that believes any government agent or any politician ‘cares about you’ is too stupid to live, much less vote.”
Apparently not dumb enough to parasitically subsist thou.
The left did an Evil thing when they demonized Mitt for bain capital’s activities, even Bill Clinton recognized their propaganda as such. But Obama no more recognizes ethical restraint than he does a private sector job.
To Obama the world revolves around government, that is unbenounced to his victoms force, fire, the gun, and the sword. To drive people into this trap he must demonize freedom itself, convece people to place their trust into him & the politicians that follow him rather than their own individual choices.
This of course is not an argument they can win when framed as such, so they must see to it that it is never framed as such.
We on the other hand should frame it as such by forcing people to think about what Government really is, and what private enterprise really is as an ateritive. To do that we must dispel their complicated private concerns and shine a light upon their individual choices instead.
You are the one who helped elect Obama, not me.
A nice trip down memory lane from 2008 election...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1971234/posts
It’s fascinating looking back, IMHO.
Romney is a stiff. Who the hell wants to vote for a stiff.
In this conversation, there’s only one of us who supported a liberal, and it’s not me. I don’t support liberals.
That is true. Many of us voted for that too. So, many are participating in giving America what it wants. The question is can this be changed? Probably not, until we say I do not want any more of this. We are pretty weak right now.
I"m sure you could find somebody else to loan you $6 trillion ~ (LMAO)
Get a life. You have no conscience--only an ego.
SSI recipients need never to have worked a day in their lives. You may be confusing it with regular retirement Social Security.
SSDI is Social Security Disability and requires a work history to collect.
Each of these categories of federal taxation goes on at the citation to list a myriad of federal taxes that fall within the category selected.
NO ONE, and I mean NO ONE escapes federal taxes in this country!
The original claim was about federal income taxes levied on individuals ~ not just federal taxes in general, or taxes in general ~ least you can do is use the 47% claim as originally meant and not this made up thing that people out there are not paying taxes ~ that's just stupid. This is America, not the Khalihari desert where they run around dressed in penis shields and killing small game with small arrows! Those guys don't pay taxes ~ we pay taxes!
It was the root of an unrealized argument about fairness. Unforgettably it was framed as something different
This line out of the article struck me as most enlightening:
“Haidt’s research further elucidates the particular importance of care as a moral foundation. His study of anthropology and evolutionary theory led him to the conclusion that humanity possesses six moral foundations: care, fairness, liberty, authority, sanctity, and loyalty. In over 130,000 individual interviews on how relevant each of these moral foundations are to determining right and wrong, Haidt found that conservatives respond to each of them whereas the center and the left appreciate essentially only two: care and fairness. “
If any civilization only cared about perceptions of “fairness” and preceved concern by political leaders (about them) rather than concepts of liberty, authority, sanctity, and loyalty. Then its only a matter of time & men before such a civilization falls under a despotic tyrant time and time again. (very much like Mexico’s history) It is very easy to for a carasmaic man to convince people he cares about them & their problems while also advocating policy’s under trumped up notions of fairness(you just demonize whatever side you want to take from as having stolen from you, like the Jews or the “rich” or “wallstreat” or “whites”).
What is scary about this is it means when whites do become a minorty(politically) they will not be treated as present minortys but rather scaped gloated by the new majority and persecuted.
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