while running for president of the united states against incumbent Barack Obama in 2012, then-governor of Utah and lifelong member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Mitt Romney infamously told his supporters:
[They] will vote for [Obama] no matter what. All right, there are 47% who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to healthcare, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for the president no matter what . . . These are people who pay no income tax . . . [M]y job is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.1
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