FatedGolem, a person can be an elitist and a liberal. An elitist believes that he knows what is better for people than they know or can understand themselves. An elitist believes he is smarter than the ones he wants to rule, that he knows what is best for them even if they don't agree with him. An elitist argues they are just too dumb to figure it out for themselves, which is why Obama's "cling to their guns and their religion" comments tagged him as an elitist, and his explanation that they don't know any better than to vote against their own best interests only made it worse.
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Correction: Due to a math error, our article originally said that oil money made up two pennies for every hundred dollars of Clinton's money and one penny for every hundred dollars of Obama's. Our chart correctly reflected the percentages, which actually figure out to 18 pennies and 11 pennies, respectively.
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