According to one article, 46% of US households didn't pay any Federal income taxes in 2011.[1] That was the observation that got Romney in trouble. If those pe

According to one article, 46% of US households didn't pay any Federal income taxes in 2011.[1] That was the observation that got Romney in trouble. If those people weren't voting, that would be a very substantially different to what we have now. E.g. quite likely Romney would be president. (Let's not debate if Romney would have done better than Obama. Too much of a tangent.) You're absolutely right about the "quotation marks". :) I went way overboard. Please accept an upvote as an apology. [1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/09/18/who-doesnt-pay-taxes-in-charts/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/09/18/w... Edit: I forgot that, to a considerable minority of people, Romney and Obama aren't substantially different. It's easy to think Republican vs Democrat is the entirety of the political spectrum, but it's not.