# Did Romney darken his face to appeal to Latino voters? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [September 20, 2012, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-romney-darken-his-face-to-appeal-to-latino-voters/635316 "2012-09-20T21:11:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-romney-darken-his-face-to-appeal-to-latino-voters/635316/21 "2012-09-21T00:05:29Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#): > > I’m sure it’s just a bad make-up job but it’s an unfortunate audience to have that happen in front of. Maybe his make-up person is an Obama supporter gone rogue. This has been done as a sitcom gag at least twice. ---
**Author:** ![Enkel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/df705f/32.png) [@Enkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enkel)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-romney-darken-his-face-to-appeal-to-latino-voters/635316/22 "2012-09-21T00:17:32Z")
I thought he’d gotten a bad hair dye job as well. It looks flat black with uber-white fuzzy bits on the back and side-burns that don’t blend anymore… but maybe that was the photography? ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-romney-darken-his-face-to-appeal-to-latino-voters/635316/23 "2012-09-21T00:39:31Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Yeah that, and every other silly thing that can be said about this topic. I considered that I was being whooshed, but you never know…he does have that lovely brown skin. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-romney-darken-his-face-to-appeal-to-latino-voters/635316/24 "2012-09-21T02:06:40Z")
He is Juan Percent… 🙂 > **[Mitt Romney 'Dyed His Face Brown' to Appeal to Latino Voters](https://www.gawker.com/5944931/mitt-romney-dyed-his-face-brown-to-appeal-to-latino-voters?post=52833272)** > > Mitt Romney currently trails President Obama among registered Latino voters by nearly 40%, and getting caught saying things like "it would be helpful to be Latino" certainly isn't helping. (scroll down a little) More seriously, I don’t think that Romney was attempting to look Latino, I’ll go for the more mundane explanation that they just made a mess with his makeup… …Or he was going for the Oompa Loompa vote. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-romney-darken-his-face-to-appeal-to-latino-voters/635316/25 "2012-09-21T02:15:48Z")
Neither Obama nor Romney speak passable Spanish, right? I can ask where the library is, but if you tell me, I still won’t know. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-romney-darken-his-face-to-appeal-to-latino-voters/635316/26 "2012-09-21T02:24:31Z")
As much as I want to believe Romney has managed to find another way to be offensive and stupid, I have to go with comical makeup error. There is precedent: [http://i.imgur.com/xFnEQ.png](http://i.imgur.com/xFnEQ.png). ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-romney-darken-his-face-to-appeal-to-latino-voters/635316/27 "2012-09-21T03:42:41Z")
> [@](#): > > Quoth **Bob Ducca** : > > Maybe his make-up person is an Obama supporter gone rogue. Man, if there was ever a sentence that was just crying out for a typo… ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-romney-darken-his-face-to-appeal-to-latino-voters/635316/28 "2012-09-21T03:49:46Z")
I suspect Romney is a serial tanner as well. I’ve noticed his alternating red/dark complexion for a long time now and assumed he had a tanning bed(s) in at least one of his homes. It especially stands out when he is sitting or standing next to a white person who _isn’t_ all bronzed and tanned; he looks like a boiled lobster. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-romney-darken-his-face-to-appeal-to-latino-voters/635316/29 "2012-09-21T04:04:43Z")
You have to give Romney credit for a gutsy move. Not many Republican candidates would try to challenge Obama on the melanin issue. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-romney-darken-his-face-to-appeal-to-latino-voters/635316/30 "2012-09-21T04:57:10Z")
Look around his eyes in the video. He looks like a reverse raccoon. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-romney-darken-his-face-to-appeal-to-latino-voters/635316/31 "2012-09-21T13:03:00Z")
I think he borrowed Boehner’s Tub O’Orange makeup vat. ---
**Author:** ![Bouncer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9d8465/32.png) [@Bouncer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bouncer)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2012, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-romney-darken-his-face-to-appeal-to-latino-voters/635316/32 "2012-09-24T01:09:34Z")
Hola!!! Regards, -ElBouncero!- ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2012, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-romney-darken-his-face-to-appeal-to-latino-voters/635316/33 "2012-09-24T01:18:02Z")
> [@Bouncer](#): > > Hola!!! > > Regards, > -ElBouncero!- nm ---
**Author:** ![jmrcm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7c8e57/32.png) [@jmrcm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jmrcm)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-romney-darken-his-face-to-appeal-to-latino-voters/635316/34 "2012-09-26T01:20:14Z")
> [@Dahnlor](#): > > In the video there appears to be a little bit of paleness around his eyes that’s roughly the shape of sunglasses, so I’m guessing sunshine is the culprit. > > That said, the shade looks remarkably similar to tan-in-a-can. But that’s probably because of the blue blood. No, it’s definitely badly applied bottle tan. it’s very uneven, even missing in places. Bits seem to be in his hair. It looks like it was hurriedly applied with fingers. The make up people at Univision may have even tried to fix it. If it was real tan…Supposedly got over the last few days..when it’s autumn, how come his face was so pale all spring and summer…was there no sun during the summer? It was bottle tan. They’ve fixed it a little, but you can still see a very unnatural line on his forehead. He’s a political chameleon. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-romney-darken-his-face-to-appeal-to-latino-voters/635316.md?page=1)