And they were overwhelmingly for it in the suburbs. These people were overwhelmingly in favor of workfare, these independent voters. He told It's All Politics that before the Romney campaign really started to push the welfare attack hard, before it went viral, as it were, he decided to add a workfare question to a North Carolina poll he had commissioned. "I don't think that's a racial play" Wrenn says. "If you poll these voters, two-thirds of them support workfare," he said, pointing to the percentage of independents in the North Carolina electorate he had written on a sheet of paper, along with the percentages of Democrats and Republicans. So are the critics and analysts right? Is the Romney campaign also playing the race card? Wrenn says no, he doesn't see it that way. Some Romney critics say that to their minds, the attack is being made against an African-American president to play on white voters' association of welfare with blacks. Now that we've established his bona fides on the issue, does he see race-baiting in fellow Republican Romney's charge that President Obama has weakened the work requirement in the welfare law? (The Romney campaign, by the way, has denied the charge.) There's no point in trying to say it wasn't because it was that." But if you want to know the truth about it, yeah. We played the race card and I'm not proud of it.
I've been in the room when we played racist politics.
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