# Charlie Webster blames Romney's loss on Mystery Black People: **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 15, 2012, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlie-webster-blames-romneys-loss-on-mystery-black-people/641119 "2012-11-15T19:47:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2012, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlie-webster-blames-romneys-loss-on-mystery-black-people/641119/61 "2012-11-16T19:52:50Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > But blocks investigation into why _Romney_ ate a puppy on live TV. The puppy was a taker not a maker anyway. First he air-basted the puppy on the roof of his car. Seals in the flavor, doncha know. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlie-webster-blames-romneys-loss-on-mystery-black-people/641119/62 "2012-11-17T00:55:04Z")
I’ve lived in some really small towns. Let’s see, the town I grew up in had 268 people as of the 2000 census. I was a poll worker in a town with 731 people as of the 2000 census. I lived for 16 years in a town with 1500 people. Despite the size of these towns, there were still plenty of people no one knew, yes, even in the town with 268 people. ---
**Author:** ![Patch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Patch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patch)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlie-webster-blames-romneys-loss-on-mystery-black-people/641119/63 "2012-11-17T01:19:03Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > No,no, that would be too much work. Better to just assume the Democrats won Maine through voter fraud. > > Prolly the Black Panther’s doing. We need to get Inspector Clouseau on the case! ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlie-webster-blames-romneys-loss-on-mystery-black-people/641119/64 "2012-11-17T01:27:36Z")
> [@Patch](#): > > We need to get Inspector Clouseau on the case! McCain’s busy. Oh, wait. He’s Mr. Magoo. Nevermind. ---
**Author:** ![Vlad\_Igor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Vlad\_Igor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vlad_Igor)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlie-webster-blames-romneys-loss-on-mystery-black-people/641119/65 "2012-11-17T01:33:06Z")
> [@Enkel](#): > > Wouldn’t that count at the second grenade since he’s already called the GOP the “stupid party” back around the time that Norquist was calling Romney a “poopy head”. Yeah, probably. I think I was asleep during that part of the news cycle. ---
**Author:** ![Enkel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/df705f/32.png) [@Enkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enkel)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlie-webster-blames-romneys-loss-on-mystery-black-people/641119/66 "2012-11-17T11:32:42Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > And that’s why when folks called me and said, ‘Where did this Chinese man come from? We don’t have any Chinese people here. Where did they come from?’ Well, I don’t know! It’s a good point. > > Gives me this image of some Asian looking guy stopping to buy some gas or whatever, and meanwhile all these people talking in hushed tones into their phones while staring at him with panicked expressions like he was a Martian. Wow… Maine is starting to sound like a seriously uneducated boony. I bet their tourism office is loving all of this stuff being put out there… “Not a angry old white guy? Come to Maine and we’ll call the cops of you and demand to know where you came from!” ---
**Author:** ![Enkel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/df705f/32.png) [@Enkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enkel)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlie-webster-blames-romneys-loss-on-mystery-black-people/641119/67 "2012-11-17T11:48:48Z")
> [@Vlad\_Igor](#): > > Yeah, probably. I think I was asleep during that part of the news cycle. Jindal - stop being the stupid party: [http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/83743.html?hp=f2](http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/83743.html?hp=f2) ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlie-webster-blames-romneys-loss-on-mystery-black-people/641119/68 "2012-11-17T12:31:12Z")
Maybe those closed-minded people just don’t realize their neighbors are black. [They just voted in a gay black man](http://www.pressherald.com/politics/lawmakers-election-a-victory-for-all-of-us_2012-11-16.html) as one of their members of the Maine House of Representatives, after all. (He’s also an organic farmer who gives away a percentage of their crops too, so I’m pretty sure that would tag him a “socialist.”) ---
**Author:** ![Crab\_Rangoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Crab\_Rangoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crab_Rangoon)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlie-webster-blames-romneys-loss-on-mystery-black-people/641119/69 "2012-11-17T14:05:22Z")
He has a magical hypnotizing smile. That’s why no one notices he’s black or gay or a socialist. He’s just known as Dreamy (well at least to me). ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlie-webster-blames-romneys-loss-on-mystery-black-people/641119/70 "2012-11-17T15:14:18Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > I also like the quote claiming he fields calls about “Chinese people”: > > Gives me this image of some Asian looking guy stopping to buy some gas or whatever, and meanwhile all these people talking in hushed tones into their phones while staring at him with panicked expressions like he was a Martian. Rich Lady: [into her wristwatch] I’ve got one that can see! ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlie-webster-blames-romneys-loss-on-mystery-black-people/641119/71 "2012-11-17T17:06:39Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > Rich Lady: [into her wristwatch] I’ve got one that can see! ROTFLMAO A lovely obscure cult film, I manage to see it every couple of years. I will fully admit that I live in a town of some 2800 people, and I can say that I have never noticed a black family shopping in the local IGA, nor when up at the town center offices, library or voting - though we do actually have a chinese take out place that opened about 4 years ago. I would say that people seeing a negro, hispanic or asian intheir whitebread little town simply didn’t see them normally during the year. I know for a fact that since I don’t do anything at any of our schools, I dont see kids of whatever racial background, so I wouldn’t expect to see their parents out voting.Especially since the people in question may shop and work out of our tiny whitebread and rural community. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlie-webster-blames-romneys-loss-on-mystery-black-people/641119/72 "2012-11-17T17:37:30Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > Rich Lady: [into her wristwatch] I’ve got one that can see! Ha! > [@aruvqan](#): > > ROTFLMAO > > A lovely obscure cult film, I manage to see it every couple of years. Cool film; never really thought of it as obscure though. (_They Live_, for those who don’t get the reference) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlie-webster-blames-romneys-loss-on-mystery-black-people/641119.md?page=3)