O Really wrote:
No, that wasn't it. He said that, and there's nothing wrong with saying it. But then he went on to describe them as "victims" "irresponsible," yada. That's what he's getting deservedly ripped for. If he'd just said "47% of the people are hard-core Democratic supporters, and I would be wasting my time to try to get their vote" nobody would have noticed.
But dimwit Willard confused two groups -- Obama voters and government beneficiaries.
Actually, 49% receive government benefits: Medicaid: 26 percent; Social Security: 16 percent; Food stamps: 16 percent; Medicare: 15 percent; Women, Infants and Children food program: 8 percent.
Those aren't automatically Obama voters.
46% pay no income tax: About 22 percent get tax breaks for senior citizens that offset their income; About 15 percent get tax breaks for the working poor or low-income parents; Almost 3 percent get tax breaks for college tuition or other education expenses.
PeopleThe vast majority have below-average earnings: Among all who don't owe, 9 out of 10 make $50,000 or less; about 4,000 households earning more than $1 million a year.
Those certainly aren't all automatically Obama voters.
Obama voters: Most are employed: Sixty-two percent of the Obama voters work, including the 10 percent working only part time' A fourth are retired; Five percent say they're temporarily unemployed.
Most earn higher-than-average wages. Fifty-six percent have household incomes above the U.S. median of $50,000. Just 16 percent have incomes below $30,000, and about the same share (20 percent) have incomes of $100,000 or more.
—They're all ages but skew younger than Romney's voters: Twenty percent are senior citizens and 12 percent are under age 30.
—They're more educated than the overall population: Forty-three percent boast four-year college degrees or above; 21 percent topped out with a high school diploma.
The usual con/Pub talk is that Obama only gets elected because welfare people all vote for him. Rush claims -- mistakenly, as is most often the case -- that welfare people turn out in force and vote. Their meme is that that's the only way Obama can get elected.
Newsflash: Poor people vote the least by a factor of more than 3. They have piss poor voter turnout. Both those making under $15,000 a year and those making over $200,000 each made 6% of voter turnout in 2008.
But those making under $15,000 a year make up 13% of the population while those making over $200,000 make up less than 4% of the population.
Get that? Even though there are more than 3 times as many making less than $15,000 than there are making over $200,000, they both vote at the same rate. Look at it another way. The poorest people in the U.S. vote at 1/3 the rate of rich people.
More wingnut delusions bite the dust.
I don't even know where to start. 
