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I've just been watching the Clinton speech on one of the BBC politics channels.I've decided to vote for him.......

What I thought was impressive about it was that it managed to successfully include a lot of rather detailed analysis (there are quite a lot of facts and figures) in order to comprehensively refute the claims of Obama’s opponents whilst simultaneously remaining amusing, engaging and quite inspirational. He didn’t treat the audience as if it were made up of idiots with attention deficit disorder. The speech demanded a degree of concentration to follow the arguments being made. And it did actually make an argument rather than be simply a list of slogans in the way that many political speeches are.

Sure. Sure.I was commenting more on the quality of the speech than anything else. It was a cheeky comment pertaining to that. Nothing more.

Maybe the Occupy Movement needs to take note here and change it's slogan.We are the 47%.....Then again - maybe not.

Precise percentage of "moochers" aside....How prevalent in the US is the sort of thinking CS is talking about here?In the UK it seems to be increasingly prevalent. Right wing parties seem to need to convince the electorate that there is this vast swathe of the population sponging off of the hard working, decent and productive members of society. It gives them a basis for pursuing the more controversial aspects of their individualist ideology.So - I suspect that whilst many will see the 47% figure as hyperbolic and a result of Mitt talking to his rich mates they will also still have some sympathy with the sort of thinking CS outlines. And still think that the number of "moochers" is much higher than it actually is. These people will presumably vote Republican pretty much whatever Mitt says.