4/26/2012

Can Obama keep bashing the rich while taking the vacations he takes?

Obama is a fairly wealthy guy.  The question is whether people resent Obama using taxpayer money for outrageous vacations more than they dislike Romney r being wealthy.  From the Washington Examiner:
Blue collar Democratic voters, stuck taking depressing “staycations” because they can’t afford gas and hotels, are resentful of the first family’s 17 lavish vacations around the world and don’t want their tax dollars paying for the Obamas’ holidays, according to a new analysis of swing voters.
“They view everything through their own personal situation and if they can’t afford to do it, they can’t enjoy it, they don’t like Obama using their tax dollars to benefit himself,” said pollster John McLaughlin. “In this case, they see him as out of touch. While they are struggling he’s not sharing in that struggle and he’s basically doing what they can’t do on their tax dollars,” added the GOP pollster.
He and several other top-tier Republican pollsters, organized by Resurgent Republic, traveled to 11 battleground states to host focus groups of independent and swing voters, mostly Democrats, who voted for President Obama in 2008 but who are now on the fence. . . .
The theme, said McLaughlin, is that the first family “is out of touch” with working class voters. . . . 
He added that the president’s attack on the rich and GOP presidential challenger Mitt Romney’s wealth is working . . . . 

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