At the time, Schwarzman’s comment got little attention. But when the rest of the nation learned from Romney’s remarks that the superrich considered nearly half of them freeloaders, the reaction was explosive. Obama’s internal polling numbers, which had hovered steadily in the range of 48 to 50 percent, shot up to 53 percent over Romney. The damage was even more pronounced in battleground states, where Romney’s numbers plummeted. Within days, polls showed that fully 80 percent of the country had heard about the remark—more, one pollster said, than knew of the existence of North Korea.
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