Mitt Romney may have delivered a major gift to the Obama reelection campaign in some off-the-cuff, classist comments that he didn't know were being taped — and that he himself conceded Monday were "not elegantly stated" and "off-the-cuff." Chief among the comments shown in a secret video recording leaked to liberal magazine Mother Jones is a claim that 47 percent of the electorate will vote for President Barack Obama regardless of what he does. "There are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it. That that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them," Romney said. The Obama campaign seized on the comments, which the source who shot the video told NBC News were made at a $50,000-a-plate fundraiser on May 17 at the home of private equity titan Marc Leder in Boca Raton, Fla. Romney himself responded in a hastily arranged news conference late Monday.
