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human
[ELI5] Why the Democratic party demanding Romney's tax documents is different than the Republican demanding Obama's birth certificate.

If I remember right, the Rep party demanded the birth certificate before the election and continued into his term. It seems like the same type of deal is happening now, but in reverse, with Romeny's tax documents.

It seems like the same type of hype, legitimate or not, to create doubt in Romney. Seems like they should just continue to point out his craziness than resort to hyping something like this. (Not saying he's not a scumbag, please don't cast me into downvote hell)
gpt
The difference is Obama provided it multiple times and in several formats, they just continued to deny its validity. Even now there are still those who insist that his certificate was photoshopped, the mentions of his birth in Hawaiian newspapers planted there, and all sorts of other things faked in some grand conspiracy.