Just months before the Nov. 6 election, then-GOP challenger Mitt Romney made some remarks at a private fundraiser that did not sit too well with voters.
"There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what," Romney was recorded saying. "All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what...These are people who pay no income tax."
Now, nearly a month after the elections, it appears that Romney will, coincidentally or ironically, be left with 47 percent of the vote.
According to the latest popular vote numbers provided by David Wasserman, house editor of The Cook Political Report, Romney has 47.49 percent of the overall popular vote. Interestingly, in the 12 swing states that was crucial to winning the election, Romney also only got 47 percent of the vote.
In a blog post last week, The Washington Post's Greg Sargent said Romney might be "achieving perfect poetic justice."
"The Romney victory was always based on the hope that a whiter-than-2008 electorate would ensure that Obama's victory was a demographic fluke," Sargent wrote. "Yet Obama's constituencies - many of whom make up Romney's fabled 47 percent - turned out to add up to the majority, confirming that these ongoing changes are real and inexorable, a sign of what America is really becoming. If Romney's described electorate - the job creators and the makers of America who were supposed to be enraged at all the moochers and the takers - ends up totalling 47 percent, we will have come full circle."
President Obama is expected to finish with 51 percent of the vote.
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