Gallup: One-Third Of Lowest Income Voters Support Romney

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While Mitt Romney continues to suffer the fallout from a video that shows him dismissing President Barack Obama's voters, or 47 percent of Americans, as invididuals who do not pay income taxes and depend on government entitlements, new research from Gallup released Tuesday shows that the Republican nominee claims the support from more of those individuals than his remarks seem to suggest.

According to Gallup's polling from the tracking period of Aug. 27-Sept. 16, 34 percent of voters whose household incomes are less than $24,000 a year support Romney. Obama easily wins among those voters, earning the support of 58 percent.

As Gallup points out, a significant portion of the individuals who pay no income tax are the same voters in the lowest income bracket, roughly a third of whom intend to vote for Romney, not Obama.

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/gallup-one-third-of-lowest-income-voters-support

Romney Has Support Among Lowest Income Voters
http://www.gallup.com/poll/157508/romney-support-among-lowest-income-voters.aspx

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Shake head

[still_one]

2. One third of the lowest income voters who are voting for Romney are racists

[yellerpup]

3. Yes, racism is the significant factor

in that statistic. Pitiful.

[SharonAnn]

15. Around here it's that, and their fundamentalist religious beliefs

The right-wing religiosity is a driving force in many of their lives.

[yellerpup]

16. I really don't get how religious belief

drives prejudice. Christianity teaches compassion and service to 'the least of these,' which fundamentalists often are. How they consistently vote against their own best interests makes no sense at all.

[dawg]

21. It drives prejudice against gays.

The abortion issue is another driver of their votes.

But it's mostly racism. The religious issues are just an excuse.

They oppose the Democrats because they believe the welfare state allows blacks and Mexicans to live a life of ease on welfare while poor whites like themselves have to struggle to get by. So they vote Republican as a big "screw you" to the "moochers".

It's delusional, but that's how they think.

[yellerpup]

23. Delusional, yes.

How do you fix delusional? Delusional is the same state as stupid--no fixing it.

[dawg]

26. You're right. There's no fixing it. You just have to scare the hell out of these people.

They want to vote for the conservatives, but they won't do it if they seriously think they'll lose their Medicare or their right to use birth control.

Right now, they don't believe the Republicans would really do those things. (At least not to white people.)

Scare them bad enough, and they might not vote for us, but they'll certainly stay home election day.

[yellerpup]

31. Staying home on election day

is what I see the mass of them doing. With pitifully few bumper stickers showing, with even fewer yard signs in favor of Rmoney, with the way states with R governors are trying to impede voting and increasing the time a person has to stand in line to vote, I don't see this group waiting in line for hours to vote (especially if football or Honey BooBoo is on TV) for someone they are tepid about, at most. I do see Obama voters standing in line to vote up until someone runs them away. I hope I'm not too optimistic but I think we are going to win this BIG.

[dawg]

32. I hope you're right.

I see us winning in a squeaker.

[yellerpup]

33. Just as long as we win...

I don't care by what margin. Every time I see someone I know 'like' Rmoney on FB I want to ask them what it is they like about him. I don't think they could answer because he doesn't have any solutions for anyone but the plutocracy and none of my 'friends' are in that percentile. As long as we win, dawg, that's all we need!

[rfranklin]

6. Probably so, but even if they aren't they are just worried about...

that somebody poorer than them might get a penny more in government help than they do.

[Jackpine Radical]

28. Actually, you're right.

There has been some interesting psychological research on this. People will work to hold down those who are just beneath them in status, because if those below them get a little ahead, they will surpass them in status.

[LynneSin]

7. These people aren't voting for Romney...

they are voting against Obama.

[still_one]

13. It is the same result. /nt

[LynneSin]

14. Not really

When you're voting against someone there tends to be an enthusiasm gap between them and those who are actually voting for someone they do support.

I think one thing that hurt Kerry in 2004 was he ended up being an 'Anyone But Bush' candidate since there was a large group of voters more interested in seeing an outsider get the nomination.

'Anyone but...' people vote but they tend to not get involved with the campaign or rave about the candidate to other voters.

[Thrill]

4. Yup racists. No way they can think

this Pompous piece of shit, cares about them

[Spider Jerusalem]

5. I would bet money that those people are mostly voting against Obama and not for Romney

and I'd also bet that those people are mostly rural white evangelical Christians who are going to vote Republican no matter what because of social issues.

[Bradical79]

18. Yup. Killing themselves so gays can't marry.

[ProSense]

8. Yeah, and he dissed them

and plans to screw them over, and they will still vote for him. That's not where the backlash against Romney is going to come from.

[Jackpine Radical]

29. This is important: He didn't dis the low-income fundies.

Not in their view anyway. Introspection and perspective are not among their stronger attributes.

They don't see themselves as meeting the criteria for the Moocher category, and see themselves as exploited by those Moochers, and it is those moochers who are causing them to be so poor.

The moochers are getting all the good things that God intended for the evangelical/racist/rage addicts. Maybe Romney won't make it any better for the e/r/ra's, but by God he'll make it hell on those Moochers.

[hifiguy]

9. Hard core racism and bone-deep stupidity.

And these people somehow manage to dress themselves each day. The mind shrivels.

[kestrel91316]

10. Stupid, uneducated, bible-beating redneck racists.

Rmoney would let them starve, too. They're just too stupid to figure that part out.

[mmonk]

11. Idiot nation.

[joeybee12]

12. Well, there's Honey Boo-Boo's family...

I wonder who else.

[Bradical79]

17. And I'll still pay my taxes to help them receive government aid when they need it...

... unlike their candidate. Because that's what decent rational people do. I'll even fight for them to get free health care, a cleaner living environment, and a safer neighborhood. You're welcome crazy Republicans.

[Barack_America]

19. These are Rove's people...

Convinced to vote against distractions (race! gays! abortion!) rather than for their own economic interests.

[Ganja Ninja]

20. They deserve him. n/t

[Jackpine Radical]

30. Small comfort.

I DON'T deserve him, but that won't stop the droolers from trying to force him on me.

[coalition_unwilling]

22. You can lead a horse to water . . . - n/t

[lpbk2713]

24. Incorrigible willfully ignorant Shittohead Faux Noise viewers.

There will always be a segment who will mindlessly vote against
their own interests no matter how you try to enlighten them.

[CakeGrrl]

25. And some will continue to support him because he's white.

To put a mild twist on an uglier sentiment, they'd rather get dirt kicked in their faces by a white man than be helped by a black man.

[liberal N proud]

27. It makes you wonder why.

[qb]

34. Stockholm Syndrome?

[Jackpine Radical]

36. No. Hell, they don't even know they're being exploited & abused.

Or, more correctly, by whom.

Stockholm Syndrome refers to the victim in some way coming to form an attachment with the abuser. In this case, the hostage takers are pointing out the ring of cops to the victims & successfully blaming them for creating the hostage situation.

[reformist2]

35. Hey now, we need to be figuring out how to get these voters to flip....

These people can't be all bad. These are the kind of poor whites that voted for FDR, you know. And if we get them to flip, the south would turn solid blue, and Dems could once again have the supermajority they had pretty steadily from the 30s through to the 60s.