Greg Sargent: Romney Likely to End Up at 47%

[democrattotheend]

When all the votes are counted, could Mitt Romney really end up achieving perfect poetic justice by finishing with 47 percent of the national vote? Yup. Dave Wasserman of the nonpartisan Cook Political Report says new votes in from Maryland put Romney at 47.56 percent. He predicts with certainty that with all of New York and California counted, Romney will end up below 47.5 percent of the vote.

Rounded, of course, that would put the final tally at 51-47. Anticipating this moment, Markos Moulitsas has inaugurated the “Romney 47 percent watch.”

As Sargent said, talk about poetic justice.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/poetic-justice-romney-likely-to-finish-at-47-percent/2012/11/20/8a84ad4e-3351-11e2-9cfa-e41bac906cc9_blog.html

[Robbins]

1. Oh man

Won't that be Ironic.Romney with 47 percent of popular vote.And Obama winning 51 to 47 In popular vote.

This says most of Obama's voters stayed with him.Only 1 percent nationwid went from Obama 2008 to Romney 2012.And another 1
percent went to various Independent and third parties.

[doc03]

2. That's really ironic the 47% mostly reside in southern states that

that have the largest percentage of non-income tax payers and the same states collect more
federal money than they pay. So in reality he sort of carried the 47% he said he didn't care about.

[Cha]

3. That's what I thought when I saw this Tweet on the obama diary..

Dave Wasserman

@Redistrict Prince George's, MD: 25,122 new votes for Obama, 3,354 Romney. Obama crosses 64M votes, Romney down to 47.56%:…

http://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjYj9mXElO_QdHpla01oWE1jOFZRbnhJZkZpVFNKeVE#gid=19

Teach It Greg Sargent!..

Romney’s widely criticized post-election remarks — in which he claimed Obama won by giving core Dem constituencies “gifts” — were essentially a reprise of the 47 percent remarks. Romney reiterated in overly blunt terms what many Republicans and conservatives have been saying for years — and got disemboweled by his own party after detailing these views out loud, a fitting coda to his candidacy.

Thank you, democrattothend

[rocktivity]

4. Zero through forty-nine gets rounded down, fifty through ninety-nine gets rounded up

The "other" vote staying the same (1.69), Obama would have to get to 50.82 to drive Romney down to 47.49, allowing us to "officially" claim that he only got 47 per cent of the vote!


rocktivity

[pnwmom]

5. I'm glad someone around here understands basic math. n/t

[libdem4life]

6. Yeah, OK. But this is Mitt Romney here and I'm good with 47. whatever. No law against decimals.

He'll forever be Mr. 47% and change.

[CreekDog]

7. most of the uncounted votes are in CA and NY

on average, those states have a 20-25 percent margin for Obama.

that's why Wasserman is estimating Mitt will end up below 47.5, he even said "bet on it". And Wasserman dutifully updates his spreadsheet as he gets updated information from throughout the USA county by county!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?key=0AjYj9mXElO_QdHpla01oWE1jOFZRbnhJZkZpVFNKeVE&f=true&noheader=true&gid=19

[Coyotl]

10. The lead is now over 4 million for Obama.

Whoot!

[democrattotheend]

14. Also, it looks like they just started counting provisionals in Ohio

Hopefully that will give Obama some more votes, as well as prevent Ohio Republicans from getting 60 seats in the statehouse (apparently they are at 58): http://www.wksu.org/news/story/33837

[CreekDog]

8. End up at 47%? I think he's already there:

[ThoughtCriminal]

9. 47 Octane

sputter - sputter - wheeze - cough - cough - clank.

[pangaia]

12. That photo that is now almost everywhere

kinda reminds me of the photo of Saddam Hussein when he was found in the hole in the ground. :&gt ))

[Laura PourMeADrink]

17. looks like his campaign hairdresser must have quit

[InsultComicDog]

11. 47.54 at the moment

and falling, slowly

[SouthernDonkey]

13. YESSS! Take that!

You smug son of a bitch! I hope you are forever haunted by 47%, being beaten by Honey Boo Boo, as well as Obama. Talk about feeling entitled! He doesn't deserve to carry the water of a decent hard working man. Good riddance!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

18. FWIW...He was born in 1947

[agentS]

15. There are a few petitions around the Internet about this

I saw one on KOS, another from SumofUs.org, and so on and so forth.
Sign a few of these, make a few calls, who knows? She may win this appointment if we help her out.

[BainsBane]

16. Wikipedia has him at 47.5 now!

He's very close to being rounded down to 47%!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2012

Such sweet irony: revenge of the 47%.

[yellowcanine]

19. MSM will still report it as 48% though because the election is over and that is what it was when

they said it was over. On to the next story.

[grantcart]

20. Well I got within 1%

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=217344