Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said in May that he’d written off votes from 47 percent of Americans who are collecting government aid. Turns out many of them are part of his political base.
Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign event at the Newport News International Airport, on Nov. 4, 2012, in Newport News, Va. Photographer: David Goldman/AP Photo
Seventy percent of counties with the fastest-growth in food-stamp aid during the last four years voted for the Republican presidential candidate in 2008, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data compiled by Bloomberg.