The Mitt Romney campaign is still in crisis after a leaked video showed Romney deriding 47% of Americans who he claims are victims who don’t pay taxes, and who are dependent upon government for everything. Romney argued that he doesn’t need to worry about these people – and they represent the President’s base.

But a new study by the Tax Foundation shows that those Americans Romney was referring to who don’t pay federal income taxes aren’t from Blue states – they’re mostly from Red states. The top ten states with the highest percentage of residents who pay no federal income taxes are all in the South, plus Idaho. And each one of those states – with the exception of Florida – has consistently voted for Republicans.

Mitt Romney may have thought he was writing off President Obama’s electorate – but in reality, he was writing off his own.

Unfortunately, Republicans have used racist dog-whistle politics in the South since Nixon to convince tens of millions of Americans to vote against their best interests. And they’re trying to do the same thing today to convince poor, southern Americans that priority number one is to get the black President out of the White House.

-Thom

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Tuesday's Daily Stack

Quote: "Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death." -- Thomas Paine.

Article: "Romney Tells Wealthy Donors That 47% Of Americans Are Lazy Moochers" by Annie-Rose Strasser.

Article: "Who are Romney's 47% that don't pay tax?" by Haroon Siddique.

Speech: "First State of the Union Address" by George W. Bush, 2001.

Article: "Romney Doubles Down On 47 Percent" by ThinkProgress.

"Taking Our Country Back" - Running for Congress against Michelle Bachmann
- Jim Graves, Native Minnesotan & Hotelier running for Congress (D-MN, District 6)

Article: "Poll: Bachmann in danger" by Alex Seitz-Wald.

Article: "Hotelier Jim Graves Wants to Make Minnesota Boring Again" by Kerry Howley.

Article: "What Romney Won’t Tell You About The 47 Percent" by Pat Garofalo.

Article: "Mitt Romney’s nightmare video: On the 47 percent and how “jokingly…it would be helpful to be Latino.” (VIDEO)" by Carla Marinucci.

Article: "Saudis offer extra oil to control prices" by Javier Blas.

Article: "Thurston Howell Romney" by David Brooks.

Article: "The 47 Percent, In One Graphic" by Jacob Goldstein.

Article: "Exclusive: Brigham Young’s Great-Great-Granddaughter on Mormonism and Mitt Romney" by Jamie Reno.

Hour Two: Why trickle down economics only creates a nation of peons?
- Peter Ferrara, Policy Director-Carleson Center for Public Policy / Attorney & Author "America's Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb".

Book: "America's Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb: How the Looming Debt Crisis Threatens the American Dream-and How We Can Turn the Tide Before It's Too Late" by Peter Ferrara.

Article: "Tax Cuts For The Rich Do Not Spur Economic Growth: Study" by Sahil Kapur.

Article: "Marc Leder, Host Of Mitt Romney Fundraiser, Hosted Sexy Parties, Made Companies Go Bankrupt" by Bonnie Kavoussi.

Article: "Pensions in Chile" by Wikipedia.

Article: The fortunate 400: David Cay Johnston

Quote: "Taxes are what we pay for civilized society" by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.".

Quote: "We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes" by Leona Helmsley".

Video: "Mike Wallace Interviews Ayn Rand (1959)".

Article: "WH to Romney: Obama is president of 'all the people'" by David Jackson.

Article: ""It's Not Elegantly Stated ... But It’s a Message Which I’m Going To Carry"" by Josh Voorhees.

Article: "On Earned Income Tax Credit Awareness Day, IRS and Partners Launch Outreach Campaign to Low- and Moderate-Income Workers" by IRS.

Article: "The Earned Income Tax Credit" by Working Families Credit.

Talk Radio News Segment:
- Victoria Jones, White House Correspondent

Article: "Judge rules Arizona can enforce strict provision to immigration law" by David Schwartz.

Article: "PA Supreme Court Doubts State Can Comply With Its Own Voter ID Law" by Voting Rights Watch.

Article: "Unintended Results From Florida's Voter Purge: One Illegal Canadian" by David Frum.

Article: "D.C. Court Reverses Donor Disclosure Ruling" by TRNS.

Article: "SECRET VIDEO: On Israel, Romney Trashes Two-State Solution" by David Corn .

Article: "WATCH: Full Secret Video of Private Romney Fundraiser" by David Corn.

Article: "Full Transcript of the Mitt Romney Secret Video" by MoJo News Team.

Article: "Today on Fox News: Neil Cavuto Has Mitt Romney’s First Interview Since Release of Secret Tape".

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Site: Governor Don Siegelman.

Petition: "President Obama: Please restore justice and pardon my dad!" by Dana Siegelman.

Book: "The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand.

Book: "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand.

Video: "Paul Ryan on Ayn Rand".

Quote: "This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force" -- Dorothy Parker about "Atlas Shrugged".

Article: "U.S. citizens among those who got letters questioning right to vote" by Tim Hoover.

Quote "Poor George. He can't help it - he was born with a silver foot in his mouth." by Ann Richards of George H. W. Bush.

Article: "Clint Eastwood: Romney is 'dumb enough'" by Kaili Joy Gray.

Article: "Romney: 'Middle-Income' Up To $250,000 Per Year " by AP.

The good: "How Medical Marijuana Is Giving a Six-Year-Old Boy New Life" by Nicole Flatow.

The bad: "Fox's Eric Bolling: Obama Administration "Answers To The Quran First And To The Constitution Second"" by Media Matters.

The very, very ugly: Congressman. Steve King (R-IA): "Republican Congressman Pushes For Unlimited Calorie School Lunches" by Annie-Rose Strasser.

Article: "Keith Olbermann releases ‘special comment’ about leaked Romney video" by David Ferguson.

Book: "Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens.

Article: "Occupy Wall Street's Birthday, in One Chart" by Alex Klein.

Article: "More Than 180 Arrested on Occupy Wall Street's First Anniversary" by Allison Kilkenny.

Article: "Shell won’t drill Arctic waters for oil this year".

Article: "Shell puts freeze on exploration in controversial waters of the Arctic" by Erikka Askeland.

Article: "Arctic expert predicts final collapse of sea ice within four years" by John Vidal.

Article: "Investor Tied to Cuts Bankrolls His Own Pro-GOP Campaign".

Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day...

Hour One: Romneyhood...steal from the poor & give to the rich
- Mark Williams, Conservative Commentator & Author / Former Chair-Tea Party Express

Plus, pirates, global warming and the Flying Spaghetti Monster...oh my!

Hour Three: Citizens United, trade & jobs
- Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH)

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Hour Two: How Headstart helps kids, how President has supported Headstart, education
- Yvette Sanchez Fuentes, National Director-Office of Head Start, Administration for Children and Families division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

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