Do you have locks on the front door of your home?

If not, why not?

My bad for not wording it correctly.

Clinton was sample sizing Trump voters, and Trump voters only, to make her point.

Romney was sample sizing the entire country to which the 47% he's referring to is included in.



That's not what he said. Just to brush you up, here's his exact quote.

There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what...who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims. ...These are people who pay no income tax. ...and so my job is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.

He called nearly half the country "dependent on government", and implied they don't have "personal responsibility".

A statement like that is only going to play to the far right, and would be disastrous in a national election, as it turned out to be.

And no, Romney did not "play to the far right."

It also wasn't any sort of "play" at all since it came from a private meeting and not from a public forum.

Was it something he shouldn't have said since Left-wingers and the Far Left would take it out of context? Yes.

The media was giving excess coverage to non-stories and non-events to defeat his campaign

If President Obama threw out a statistic about his political opponents back then it would have gotten comparatively little coverage.

Oh wait, he did just that in 2008 when he referred to people in small communities in Pennsylvania and the Midwest who cling to guns and are bitter, etc.,

alfa, living in N.Y.C. is much different than anywhere else in America, N.Y.C. is indeed a target, elsewhere people don't worry about terroist attacks, am I going to worry about attacks in Idaho? of course not. therefore you nust understand that the rest of the country, N.Y.C. means nothing to them, up here in the northwest, and many parts of the south, and western states, N,Y,C, may as well be mars. gulliani found that out when he ran for president, in the west, the far west, the far north, no one turned out to see him. his campaign was meaningless, now hes looked upon as a trump stooge. trump supporters are much different than the rest of the country, many are KKK. and far-right extremists, Hillary was right in characterizing them.

Btw- I didn't mean that I think you see us that way Binnie. I know you were just pointing out that not everyone has the same viewpoints as NY residents.

Don't get me in trouble, Binnie. I'm not siccing anybody. No personal insults. Perhaps a small dash of sarcasm, like some Tony Chachere's on the chili, but I receive a lot of that, too.

At Real Clear Politics, Clinton still leads on Electoral Votes, and as we know, the EC the only thing that matters in US elections.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/2016_elections_electoral_college_map.html

Trump can get 100% of the vote in the states that normally go red, and it won't matter. The election will be decided in a few battleground states. Those state polls are the ones to pay attention to.

I said that his 47% quote only plays to the far right. Meaning, only the far right would think it was a good thing to say. Romney doesn't just share stats on public assistance, he used terms like "personal responsibility" and "dependent". He basically said half of this country is made up of bums. It was so typical for a sheltered, rich kid like him. He had no chance of beating Obama anyway, but that quote made him outright loathsome. It was...deplorable. Thank you, Mrs. Clinton.



Again, wan't talking about his intentions, I was talking about who the comment plays to, who would think it was a good comment.

Also, anyone who hasn't figured out yet that there is practically no privacy in today's world once you step outside of your bathroom is not smart enough to be president anyway.



The only people that took it out of context were his supporters, in order to sugar coat it and play damage control. It was one of the worst things ever said by a presidential candidate. Sadly, however, another GOP candidate has already topped him.



According to whom?



How could you possibly determine this? Do you work in the media?



No, he didn't. Similar to Clinton, Obama was referring to rural right wingers specifically. Romney said that 47% of the entire country was irresponsible and dependent on government. Obama had only sample sized a small portion of the public, Romney sample sized the entire public. The entire country, at least.

How could you possibly determine this? Do you work in the media?

No, he didn't. Similar to Clinton, Obama was referring to rural right wingers specifically. Romney said that 47% of the entire country was irresponsible and dependent on government. Obama had only sample sized a small portion of the public, Romney sample sized the entire public. The entire country, at least.

To say it's one of the worst things ever said by a presidential candidate is ridiculous and insanely wrong.

You do realize that there are organizations that monitor the media, don't you?

This scale of excuse-making takes being sycophantic to a whole new level, but it is amusing.

Binnie did you see trumps press conference on how the military should run. The place was full of advisers Generals and the alike. They all praised trump for listening to that Hillary's people started the question whether obama was an their advice. They also mentioned helping wounded warriors.

Place had a lot of the press. They planned to ask trump on whaeather obama was an American or not.

After they spoke they introduced trump. He started by saying american or not. Then he said I ended it when obama finally produced his birth certificate. So I say to you all that Obama is an American.

Then he left the stage. He took no set up questions from the press. It was a brilliant plan by trump.

On all the other stations they attacked trump on that issue. That is all they can do.

hes a real head case foots, if he would have been made in profacis family in Brooklyn in the 50s, he would have been clipped.

It's not just liberals that would be sorry if Donald Trump were president.

and who are the ones that will suffer for their ignorance? yes..... you and I and millions like us, never them.

what a mess either way, and there could be some trouble if trump is elected,if he tries to by-pass congress to get his way,we could have a constitutional crisis.