Is the feud with the Kahn family Trump's 47 %?

[Stranger in a strange land]

I initially thought he would coast through this, the way he has with everything else, but I've changed my view over the last few days, because this really does seem to have hurt him.

Having a Brown Pakistani-American Muslim Immigrant with a thick accent who knows more about being an American than Trump ever will bitch-slap him with the Constitution was a brilliant act of political theater, and would have been bad enough for him. But he made it much, much worse by personally attacking the Khan family, which was totally unnecessary. If he had just responded the way that Mike Pence did to the Air Force Mom at his rally the other day, the whole thing would have subsided and the media would have moved on to something else. But Trump's reply showed his pettiness, his callousness, his cruelty, his lack of empathy, his ingratitude, and his lack of understanding of true sacrifice. He could still pull it out if Hillary really messes up or if there's a major Wikileaks doc-drop the week before the election, but his chances of winning probably just went from around 40% to around 5-10%.

[IceSpear]

Even if you think it was classist to say or exposed how terrible the GOP is, Romney's comment was statistically true, and we all knew he (and just about every GOP nominee ever) believed that behind closed doors.  47% of the population benefits from increased government control of the economy, whether that'a those who work in public education, government employees, union members, welfare recipients or whomever.  Anyone who found that comment appalling was already voting Democrat for the exact reason Romney cited.

Trump just blatantly insulted an American hero's parents, the type of shlt I'd expect from the fringe left (though certainly from a different bent), not from the GOP.  Much worse.

Romney's problem was that he conflated the 47% of people who receive government assistance with the 47% of people who will "vote Democratic no matter what." Obviously that is not true, considering Democrats win places like Silicon Valley and NoVa while Republicans win places like Appalachia.