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Romney Retracts 47 Percent Comment

Michael Juliani |
October 4, 2012 | 8:51 p.m. PDT

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(Dawn Megli / Neon Tommy)

In a Thursday night interview, Mitt Romney disavowed his statement that the 47 percent of voters who supported President Obama paid no taxes, considered themselves victims and refused to take responsibility for their own lives, according to the L.A. Times.

"Clearly in a campaign with hundreds if not thousands of speeches and question-and-answer sessions, now and then you say something [that] doesn't come out right," Romney said on Fox News.  "In this case, I said something that's just completely wrong."

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