{"id":2611,"date":"2012-09-19T07:41:52","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T11:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=2611"},"modified":"2012-09-19T07:41:52","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T11:41:52","slug":"mitt-romney-will-probably-get-95-electoral-votes-from-moocher-states-obama-will-probably-get-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/09\/mitt-romney-will-probably-get-95-electoral-votes-from-moocher-states-obama-will-probably-get-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitt Romney will probably get 95 electoral votes from \u2018moocher\u2019 states. Obama will probably get 5."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mitt Romney\u2019s comments\u00a0on the 47 percent of Americans who make too little to pay income tax and \u201cwill vote for this president no matter what\u201d\u00a0are causing him some\u00a0political problems\u00a0this morning. But could they cause him any electoral problems? Is he really insulting anyone who would already be willing to vote for him?<\/p>\n<p>Actually, yes. The Tax Foundation put out this helpful map of the states with the highest and lowest percentage of people who don\u2019t file income tax returns. The biggest non-filing states are \u2014 except Florida and New Mexico \u2014 solid red states:<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE:\u00a0<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/ezra-klein\/wp\/2012\/09\/18\/mitt-romney-will-probably-get-95-electoral-votes-from-moocher-states-obama-will-probably-get-5\/?wprss=rss_ezra-klein\" target=\"_blank\">Mitt Romney will probably get 95 electoral votes from \u2018moocher\u2019 states. Obama will probably get 5.<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitt Romney\u2019s comments\u00a0on the 47 percent of Americans who make too little to pay income tax and \u201cwill vote for this president no matter what\u201d\u00a0are causing him some\u00a0political problems\u00a0this morning. But could they cause him any electoral problems? Is he really insulting anyone who would already be willing to vote for him? Actually, yes. The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,22],"tags":[1486,26,1488,1487,301,1489],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2611"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2612,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2611\/revisions\/2612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}