{"id":776,"date":"2012-11-30T15:52:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T15:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2012\/11\/30\/47-percent-lives-on-in-results"},"modified":"2012-11-30T15:52:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T15:52:00","slug":"47-percent-lives-on-in-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=776","title":{"rendered":"\u201847 percent\u2019 lives on in results"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Sen.-elect Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has declared that Mitt Romney\u2019s infamous \u201c47 percent\u201d remarks \u2013 which he made to campaign donors in Florida this past spring \u2013 was the major reason he lost the presidential race to Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p>That statement, Cruz said, hurt him more with Hispanic voters than his \u201cself-deportation\u201d view on illegal immigration. So many gaffes, it\u2019s becoming hard to keep track of which ones hurt more than others.<\/p>\n<p>Romney told the fat cats that 47 percent of American voters would favor President Obama no matter what. Why? Because, he said, those folks are on government assistance and feel \u201centitled\u201d to any help the government should provide them. Romney said there was nothing he could say to those folks to persuade them to vote for him.<\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s an interesting symmetry between that remark and the results of the election.<\/p>\n<p>Romney\u2019s share of the popular vote, with the late ballots still being counted, has dipped to \u2013 are you ready? \u2013 to slightly more than 47 percent. <a title=\"http:\/\/uselectionatlas.org\/RESULTS\/\" href=\"http:\/\/uselectionatlas.org\/RESULTS\/\">http:\/\/uselectionatlas.org\/RESULTS\/<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The latest unofficial total shows Obama with 51 percent, Romney with 47. Romney\u2019s percentage of the total doesn\u2019t figure to drop below 47 when all the ballots are counted.<\/p>\n<p>What does this mean? Probably nothing other than the symbolism it represents. Perhaps it will haunt the Republican nominee forever and remind him of how badly stated opinions have this way of leaving indelible marks.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 U.S. Sen.-elect Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has declared that Mitt Romney\u2019s infamous \u201c47 percent\u201d remarks \u2013 which he made to campaign donors in Florida this past spring \u2013 was the major reason he lost the presidential race to Barack Obama. That statement, Cruz said, hurt him more with Hispanic voters than his \u201cself-deportation\u201d view on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=776\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u201847 percent\u2019 lives on in results<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}