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Jennifer Rubin: What will decide the race


Two events are going on simultaneously — the campaign and the national coverage of the campaign. The media are convinced these are one and the same; in fact, the campaign is what they cover.

So the media go nuts over “inelegant” comments, as he described them, from Mitt Romney catured on tape at a fundraiser. The comments are hardly a plus but neither are they the catastrophe the media would have us believe. He was right that 47 percent of the electorate is Obama’s floor. And he was also right that “because [Obama voters in 2008] voted for him, they don’t want to be told that they were wrong, that he’s a bad guy, that he did bad things, that he’s corrupt. Those people that we have to get, they want to believe they did the right thing, but he just wasn’t up to the task.” His faux pas was in claiming all Obama supporters are dependent on the government. His swift explanation — that Obama seeks a dependency society, while he wants an opportunity culture — was as effective a damage-control operation as he’s managed this campaign. It is unlikely that those offended were not already Obama voters, but the media tumult bears no relationship to the seriousness of the remarks.

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