Race Takes Over the Race (Romney's camp thinks he can win with 61% of whites and little else.)
Mitt Romney says that Obama allowed a waiver for the work requirement for welfare -- if states have a better way of getting recipients into jobs -- so that the President could "shore up his base." Romney probably didn't mean the Republican governors who asked for the waivers but, fitting with his campaign's recent message, poor black people who take white people's money.
Romney's advisers believe Romney "needs a more combative footing against President Obama in order to appeal to white, working-class voters and to persuade them that he is the best answer to their economic frustrations," The New York Times' Jeff Zeleny and Jim Rutenberg reported. And as we pointed out on Friday, if Romney gets 61 percent of the white vote, he wins. If you have any doubt that Romney is playing the race card, check out his YouTube page. There are five ads falsely accusing Obama of gutting welfare reform. The Republican National Committee has put out its own welfare ad. And another three Romney ads say Obama is raiding Medicare to pay for Obamacare. The latter ads show white faces and say "you paid in" but now health care is going to somebody else.
Other images show a smug Obama thinking about his welfare trickery. This is from Romney's ad "&feature=plcp" target="_blank">Long History":
And who is getting screwed by Obama's welfare handouts? Old white people. Here's an image from "&feature=plcp" target="_blank">Paid In," Romney's ad claiming that Obama is raiding Medicare to pay for Obamacare.
The New York Times's Tom Edsall says that the Medicare ads are meant to work with the welfare ads in order to "turn the presidential contest into a racially freighted resource competition pitting middle class white voters against the minority poor."
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2012/08/race-takes-over-race/56223/
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P.S. How much of that 61% is female?
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