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Originally Posted by Adak
Mitt was talking about political estimates of his supporters, and estimates of Obama's supporters, for the upcoming Fall election.
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Listen to his talk again, keeping in mind the setting - a political fundraiser, and this was back in May. It's not a talk about theories. It's a talk about political realities that he expected to see, in the Fall.
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Part of it was about political realities:
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Originally Posted by Romney's political realities
"There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, ...
And they will vote for this president no matter what…
[M]y job is not to worry about those people.
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And part is about his political theories on why he can't get them:
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Originally Posted by Romney's theories
...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.
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These are people who pay no income tax.
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Neither the theories nor the "realities" are patricularly laudable, or accurate.
I expect that Romney's right that at least 47% won't vote for him, but it's not particularly correlated with the set of people who don't pay Federal income tax.