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Mitt Romney told donors Wednesday he blamed last week’s loss to President Barack Obama in part to “gifts” the Obama administration gave to key voter blocs, including African Americans, Hispanics and young women, according to media reports.
“The president’s campaign focused on giving targeted groups a big gift — so he made a big effort on small things. Those small things, by the way, add up to trillions of dollars,” Romney said on a conference call with donors, the Los Angeles Times first reported.

The “gifts,” according to Romney, included forgiving college loan interest, free contraceptive coverage and the part of Obamacare that allows people 26 and younger to be covered under their parents’ health care plans.
“You can imagine for somebody making $25,000 or $30,000 or $35,000 a year, being told you’re now going to get free healthcare, particularly if you don’t have it, getting free healthcare worth, what, $10,000 per family, in perpetuity. I mean, this is huge,” Romney said, the New York Times reported.
“Likewise with Hispanic voters, free healthcare was a big plus,” Romney added. “But in addition with regards to Hispanic voters, the amnesty for children of illegals, the so-called Dream Act kids, was a huge plus for that voting group.”
Romney told the donors he was “sorry” about the results.

“I’m very sorry that we didn’t win,” he said. “I know that you expected to win, we expected to win, we were disappointed with the result, we hadn’t anticipated it, and it was very close but close doesn’t count in this business.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/83878.html#ixzz2CJ22tQ2U

 
In the call, Romney didn't acknowledge any major missteps, such as his "47 percent" remarks widely viewed as denigrating nearly half of Americans, his lack of support for the auto bailout, his call for illegal immigrants to "self-deport," or his change in position on abortion, gun control and other issues. He also didn't address the success or failure of the campaign's strategy of focusing on the economy in the face of some improvement in employment and economic growth during the months leading up to Election Day.

Obama won the popular vote by about 3.5 million votes, or 3 percent, and won the Electoral College by a wide margin, 332-206 electoral votes. Exit polls conducted for The Associated Press and television networks showed that Obama led Romney by 11 percentage points among women and won better than 7 of 10 Hispanic voters and more than 9 of 10 black voters.

Romney called his loss to Obama a disappointing result that he and his team had not expected, but he said he believed his team had run a superb campaign. He said he was trying to turn his thoughts to the future, "but, frankly, we're still so troubled by the past, it's hard to put together our plans for the future."


It's the first hangover Mitt ever had!


LOL! Troubled by the past! Hey Willard! That's why your party lost - because of what it and you did in the past!

I'll bet your plans for the future include milking this country dry, you vindictive little whiny bitch.
 
Obama ran a campaign on the grounds that Romney was an out of touch elitist who thought the vast majority of the American people were leeches and looters. Romney has now confirmed the accuracy of that assessment.
 
And the election result confirmed the accuracy of his conclusions.....
Obama won the first term using the same tactic.....promises of goodies if you vote for him.....

Dems always harped on the fact that people vote their wallets, and they do....in Obamas case, their future wallets filled with tax money from the 'rich'....
 
Yep they vote their wallets, stock market does twice as good for dems. Stupid neocons would know this if they'd stop chasing their tail!
 
IIRC the main point behind the book 'What's the Matter with Kansas' was why do poor or middle class whites vote against their best economic interests? And by best economic interests they mean the Democratic Party's platform of taxing the rich more and having the government provide more services/benefits to the middle class/poor. Romney does come across as out of touch in the way he says it but his message is exactly what Democrats have been saying all along.
 
cawacko said:
IIRC the main point behind the book 'What's the Matter with Kansas' was why do poor or middle class whites vote against their best economic interests? And by best economic interests they mean the Democratic Party's platform of taxing the rich more and having the government provide more services/benefits to the middle class/poor. Romney does come across as out of touch in the way he says it but his message is exactly what Democrats have been saying all along.
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What's the matter with Kansas is about working class white people voting Republican against their best economic interest. You're right on there. But (1) Romney specifically singled out black, Hispanic and young people as the recipients of "gifts," not working class white people or working class people generally (2) Romney apparently views policies that he proposed that favored the rich people not as "gifts" but something else whereas policies that favor middle and lower classes are "gifts" and (3) Democrats don't really run on "giving free stuff" to people.

Romney has a seriously fucked up view of the world.
 
One more thing -- the primary "gift" that Romney claims Obama gave to blacks, Hispanics and young people was health insurance coverage. I'm so old I remember when ObamaCare was an electoral disaster and when Romney could run on a similar platform with RomneyCare.
 
Heisenberg said:
Huh, so they didn't have Medicaid before Obama came along? Interesting...
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Take it up with Romney, hotshot. He's the one that said it.

Also, too, Medicaid is for very poor people. Obamacare helps the not so poor but not so well off get health insurance. And for young people, it doesn't matter how rich or how poor they are. They can stay on their parent's plans.
 
Dungheap said:
Take it up with Romney, hotshot. He's the one that said it.

Also, too, Medicaid is for very poor people. Obamacare helps the not so poor but not so well off get health insurance. And for young people, it doesn't matter how rich or how poor they are. They can stay on their parent's plans.
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Also those with pre-existing conditions. He also fixed it so an insurance company couldn't cancel the policy on people.
 
Also, too, the latest analysis showing that Romney and Obama split the breeder vote but gay support for Obama clinched the election makes me smile.

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Thurston: Obama Bribed Voters

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[/SIZE][SIZE=+1][SIZE=+1]In a call with his disappointed donors Romney attributed his election loss to “gifts” Obama
gave to the young and Blacks:

Obama, Romney argued, had been “very generous” to Blacks, Latinos and young voters. He cited
Obama's extension of health coverage for students on their parents’ insurance plans well into their 20s.
Free contraception coverage under Obama’s healthcare plan, he added, gave an extra incentive to
college-aged women to back the president.

Romney argued that the Obama’s health care plan’s promise of coverage “in perpetuity” was “highly
motivational” to those voters making $25,000 to $35,000 who might not have been covered, as well as
to Blacks and latinos. Pivoting to immigration, Romney said Obama’s efforts to paint him as “anti-immigrant”
had been effective and that “amnesty” to the rugrats of spics had helped turn out Latino voters.

“Obama focused on giving targeted groups a big gift so he made a big effort on small things.
Those small things, by the way, add up to trillions of dollars.”[/SIZE][/SIZE][SIZE=+1][SIZE=+1]

[/SIZE][/SIZE][SIZE=+1]ha ha

Stop whining, Loser.

 History will record that you couldn't even beat a Black guy with 8 percent unemployment
and you had a BILLION dollars to make your case - and you lost so slither away - Loser.

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