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Romney opens 14-point lead in
battle for middle-class voters
despite string of gaffes
Daily Mail [UK], by Tom Leonard
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Posted By:Attercliffe, 9/25/2012 8:35:35 AM
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| Mitt Romney is winning the battle for middle-class voters in the race for the White House despite a string of gaffes. With even some Republicans turning on their candidate, there is a general perception in Washington that multi-millionaire Mr Romney is out of touch with ordinary Americans who believe he will only help the rich. But according to a poll, he has a 14 percentage point lead over Barack Obama among middle-class families. Although Mr Obama leads by three percent overall in the poll, middle-class voters constitute 54 percent of the electorate and are the ultimate target group
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Comments:
Never mind the gaffes label--concentrate on three percentage points overall being within almost all margins of error!
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Pixelero, 9/25/2012 8:45:01 AM (No. 8888255)
"Gaffes?" Delusional.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Phantomll, 9/25/2012 8:46:04 AM (No. 8888256)
What gaffes?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
bobgray2, 9/25/2012 8:50:53 AM (No. 8888270)
Romney's "gaffes" pale in comparison to 0bama's in both quantity and substance. The media is constantly making excuses for 0bama's mistakes, mis-statements, and mis-adventures as if he is some mentally handicapped kid who is just doing the best he can and not the President of the United States. Well this is not the Special Olympics where everyone gets a hug no matter how they perform. This is the real world where people's lives, and families, and fortunes are on the line, and we can not afford a do-over President.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
GoDeacs79, 9/25/2012 8:53:15 AM (No. 8888278)
"...string of gaffes...Republicans turning on....multi-millionaire....out of touch....helping the rich....blah, blah, blah."
Stay out of our elections, limeys. (I can say that since I was born there.)
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
6079 Smith, W, 9/25/2012 9:04:10 AM (No. 8888296)
I guess Romney's "gaffes" are being over shadowed by Obama's glaring incompetence. I don't seem to recall many gaffes.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Malia2012, 9/25/2012 9:06:38 AM (No. 8888305)
Hey D.M. how you let US worry about "gaffes"? After all, what do those "middle-class" voters know about anything? BTW, the biggest "gaffe" in the history of America was the election of the current "president" and that "gaffe" is called obama!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
scribe35, 9/25/2012 9:09:01 AM (No. 8888311)
A Romney gaff is when he tells the truth.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
FenwayFrank, 9/25/2012 9:20:30 AM (No. 8888339)
If Mitt has a 14-pt margin with the middle class, then show us the arithmetic which results in his 3-pt overall deficit. Right now, the math is fuzzy.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
neenbean, 9/25/2012 9:24:39 AM (No. 8888356)
"You Didn't build that" - Frank Marshall Davis
"Bump in the Road" - Bill Ayers
Snubbing Israel - Jeremiah Wright
The Founding Fathers are speaking and Obama 2016 may have awakened more than they wished it to.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Attila DiMedici, 9/25/2012 9:28:17 AM (No. 8888368)
The problem for the media is that Romney's "gaffes" help him with the electorate...which means they aren't gaffes.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
navybrat, 9/25/2012 9:36:19 AM (No. 8888401)
The gaffs were not in all 57 states nor with the corpses.
The press, Obama sycophants in Hollywood and media are trying to convince us that Obama is winning. I do not believe it. I prefer to wait for November.
Romney is our best chance.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
lil dotty, 9/25/2012 9:53:37 AM (No. 8888454)
The British have their own definition of 'gaffes', much like they do 'biscuits', 'queue' and such Items such as this do tend to give all of US hope that change is coming.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Attercliffe, 9/25/2012 10:13:11 AM (No. 8888503)
Quite right #12. In addition, we're so used to seeing overwhelmingly liberal or overwhelmingly conservative articles by the US MSM that we don't recognize an objective piece when we see it. This is objective, with its warts an' all. It says despite Romney's heavily reported foot-in-mouth moments, he's built a huge lead in the most important demographic--the middle class. It's actually a congratulatory piece, but some people just can't get past the "gaffe" label--which is the intention of the MSM.
That three percent difference? A poll's margin of error can be anywhere up to four percent. Perhaps even higher in some cases. Thus, three is within the margin allowed for error. To me it means the election is about 50-50 at this point. That's A Good Thing at this point in the game.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
msctex1, 9/25/2012 10:23:49 AM (No. 8888533)
When he called dead soldiers "bumps in the road?" That one?
Had MR actually said that, it might well have resulted in a dramatic change in this election. But since it was just another one of Obama's endless series of boneheaded remarks and acts, it goes unacknowledged.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
sinic, 9/25/2012 10:32:54 AM (No. 8888558)
So "gaffe" is a new word for "tells the truth"?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
dogbreath, 9/25/2012 11:41:56 AM (No. 8888781)
Gaffes are a capital crime in Britain.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
NYbob, 9/25/2012 1:08:50 PM (No. 8889080)
As usual we get more information about this election from England than we do from NBC. Our elite, pampered, urban, NYC, based, media owners, editors and pundits are to blame for the entire mess the US and really, the world is in. Instead of investigating, educating, illuminating or simply being even handed, they covered up for the democrats since Robert Byrd and ended up cheerleading for a fraud. While quick to shout out any rumor about the right, where someone put his feet in a bathroom stall or who mentioned the news that an outed CIA analysis was married to a liar named Wilson, they can't follow up who created the need for junk derivatives and the looting that followed. No one punished, revealed or connected to the left. As a result the world is staring up from a bottomless well of fabricated debt and we are being led by a community organizer.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
kOok, 9/25/2012 9:16:51 PM (No. 8890110)
"Stay out of our elections, limeys. (I can say that since I was born there.) "
I was born here, and I say the same thing. Keep yer nose out. We'll handle things on our own, thankyouvurymuch...
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