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10% of Conservative Ohioans Say Romney Did More to Kill Bin Laden than Obama. Good for Them. « Student Activism

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10% of Conservative Ohioans Say Romney Did More to Kill Bin Laden than Obama. Good for Them.

By now you’ve probably seen the report that a new poll out of Ohio found that 15% of very conservative voters said Mitt Romney was more responsible for Osama Bin Laden’s death than President Obama, with another 6% of moderate conservative agreeing. (More than half of each group said they weren’t sure who should get more credit.)
Cue wringing of hands and mocking of conservatives. But I love their answer, and here’s why.
When Osama Bin Laden was killed, Barack Obama was the commander in chief of the military that killed him. Mitt Romney was adjusting to his new campaign wardrobe of open-collar shirts. And of course it’s not as if he