According to the NY Times, Romney told his fund-raisers and big donors that he lost the election because Obama gave huge "gifts" to key constituencies. Latinos got the 'Dream Act for kids,' the young got healthcare till their 26, young women got contraceptives. . .blah, blah, bullshit.
Give me a break. Young women voted for Obama just because the Affordable Care Act (ACA) orders access to contraception? What's the message there to those conservative donors, that floozies sunk Romney's campaign?
The ACA lured minority voters? This is just a variation on the 47% comment--whining that he can't win because so many Americans don't want Romney's vision, they just want stuff from the government, which the dastardly Obama administration dispenses in exchange for votes.
Mr. Romney lost the youth vote in part because of his antipathy towards the rights of same-sex couples, the vote of many women because members of his party spouted remarkably ignorant things about rape and women's bodies, and he lost many Latinos because he pandered to nativists with talk of self-deportation.
But why didn't he spin a more positive conversation with the money? According to Pew survey data, in comparison to McCain in 2008, he gained some points with whites, men, white Catholics, and Jews. He even gained among 18-29 year-olds, which makes his comment about losing the youth vote a little strange, but l stopped long ago expecting consistency and accuracy from him.
Give me a break. Young women voted for Obama just because the Affordable Care Act (ACA) orders access to contraception? What's the message there to those conservative donors, that floozies sunk Romney's campaign?
The ACA lured minority voters? This is just a variation on the 47% comment--whining that he can't win because so many Americans don't want Romney's vision, they just want stuff from the government, which the dastardly Obama administration dispenses in exchange for votes.
Mr. Romney lost the youth vote in part because of his antipathy towards the rights of same-sex couples, the vote of many women because members of his party spouted remarkably ignorant things about rape and women's bodies, and he lost many Latinos because he pandered to nativists with talk of self-deportation.
But why didn't he spin a more positive conversation with the money? According to Pew survey data, in comparison to McCain in 2008, he gained some points with whites, men, white Catholics, and Jews. He even gained among 18-29 year-olds, which makes his comment about losing the youth vote a little strange, but l stopped long ago expecting consistency and accuracy from him.
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