Whether it’s 47 percent or 48 or 49, a coalition of people big enough to win a presidential election prefers to be governed by this man again, despite everything they’ve seen from him since ...

Mitt Romney's comments regarding the 47 percent of Americans who pay no income tax is getting lots of attention today. Our colleague Mark Memmott explains the context. Here's a closer look at the ...

But the most egregious members of the 47 percent are the 3,000 people who made more than $2,178,866 in 2011 (putting them in the top 0.1 percent of taxpayers), and yet paid no federal income taxes.

Mitt Romney's 47 percent: The pie chart. Chuck Marr of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has posted on his Web site a pie chart that everybody should see, but most especially Mitt Romney.

Almost two-thirds of the 47 percent work, for example, and their payroll taxes help finance Social Security and Medicare. Accounting for this, the share of households paying no net federal taxes ...

According to a detailed tally from the Cook Political Report's David Wasserman, President Obama leads Romney 64,811,843 votes to 60,444,303, or 50.86% to 47.43%. Rounded to the nearest whole ...

Romney: I Was 'Just Completely Wrong' On 47 Percent : The Two-Way His controversial comments didn't come up in Wednesday night's debate. Thursday night on Fox News Channel, the Republican ...

Mitt Romney is defending comments secretly recorded at a private fund-raiser in which he criticized supporters of President Barack Obama as people "believe they ...

Now, whenever he is asked about “the 47 percent,” Romney can say something like, “Yes, I was wrong, but let’s get back to the big issues of the campaign.” As one adviser said, “What he ...

A few months ago, Richard Mourdock, the Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Indiana, complained, "You know this past April, when our federal taxes were paid, 47 percent -- 47 percent -- of all ...