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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe "birther joke" explained.
http://theobamadiary.com/2012/08/25/rise-and-shine-278/Elspeth Reeve (Atlantic Wire): The recent direction of Mitt Romneys campaign may seem perplexing the candidates birther joke, those ads accusing Obama of gutting welfare reform, John Sununus jab that Obama needs to learn how to be American, and veep pick Paul Ryans s pride at bitterly clinging to guns and God but it can all be explained with just one number: 61 percent, which is the share of the white vote Romney needs to win.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)....but, being in the majority can make one intellectually incurious and emotionally numb.
Rectangle
(667 posts)Womens' vote to keep that number down.
Team Obama should also go Hispanics to get rMoneys 28%
even lower.
You are going to hear a LOT of subtle (and not so subtle), racism from now on.
The white vote is their best/only path!!! (
They've kind-of, burned their bridges with everyone else!!!!!!!!!!!
Aerows
(39,961 posts)You would have to be an idiot to vote Republican if you are gay.
EDIT: Thinking about it, I could have just left that sentence as it was before adding "if you are gay".
Warpy
(111,417 posts)That's what the "joke" was all about.
The sad part is that it will work on a certain type of ignorant American.
Ohio Joe
(21,774 posts)I think the sheer number of ignorant people out there for it to work on is the sad part.
rasputin1952
(83,130 posts)it's not funny...I heard that from Rodney Dangerfield in a club in NY many years ago...