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What Romney Might Have Said

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This editorial in the WSJ gives another version of the "47%" of the American people dependent on benefits from the government comments by Romney at a fund raiser. This version is about the painful effects of dependency on government benefits when higher employment and a better performing economy is the better answer. It is what Romney should have said and failed to do to make his case convincing to seniors, the unemployed, minorities, women, factory and service workers, and other groups.

Romney's comment about 47% of the American people who would automatically support President Obama

09/17/2012

Romney's comment was that the 47% of the American people who receive government benefits would automatically support President Obama because Republicans were for cutting taxes and reducing entitlements.

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