It is absolutely astonishing that Romney and the GOP
failed to see what was coming at them. It now appears that they really, really believed they would win. Not just that they had a good chance to win, or that they would probably win, but that they would win for sure, and by an enormous, historic landslide. They were so convinced of this that Romney didn't even write a just-in-case concession speech; his transition web site actually got published; and he had a big-ass fireworks display all set to go to celebrate the awesome gloriousness of Mitt Romney.
Then the bubble popped, and they - especially Karl Rove, bless his heart - were caught on national TV with their pants around their ankles and poleaxed "WTF just happened?" expressions on their faces. And then they cancelled all their credit cards before the campaign workers could even use them for cab fare home.
Why the hell would any party or candidate behave this way? Why would they not want to track every single poll, not just the ones that favored them? Why would they not want to analyze objectively the demographics and characteristics of every single square inch of the country? Why would they not want to watch and analyze what the opposition was up to? Wouldn't you want to know where and with whom you were polling well and where you were not so you could focus your efforts appropriately? Or did they think they were polling so well with everybody (except the free-stuff-wanting lower classes who were too lazy or stoned to vote anyhow) that they could just assume an easy win?
Were they so swallowed up by the ideological bubble they created with the eager help of Fox and Limbaugh that they had become incapable of considering the possibility that there were some morsels of truth that didn't square with what they wanted to believe? Even if they knew Rove had arranged for some kind of vote-flipping scheme in OH (which might explain his weird behavior when OH was called for Obama), how can they have been so completely and stupidly certain Romney would win? Was it that Romney, having lived his entire life swaddled in wealth and privilege and power and having been able to buy almost everything he wanted, just couldn't imagine that the black guy who came from nowhere (maybe Kenya?) could whup his ass?
It's bizarre. I think this election really is one for the history books. I eagerly await the release more "Game Change" - type tell-all publications. It sure would be interesting to find out what those idiots were thinking.
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They are just so whacked out on hatred, ignorance, right wing hate radio...the bubble.
things should get interesting 
Going into Election Day, I figured it was going to be the standard who's up/who's down type of thing with some possible 2000/FLA-style shady activities.
I was cautiously optimistic that Romney was going to lose, but I had no idea the loss would be such a colossal train wreck for them.
And I welcome it.
Truth is that they were publicly suppressing the vote and boasting that Voter ID cards would give the election to Rmoney. They were trying to steal the election but Democrats learned well from 2000 and 2004. And the Courts were not on their side.
I would have celebrated the victory regardless but this was a gazillion times sweeter.
After the Courts went against them with Obamacare they should have realized that the ideological purity assumed in the bubble was never real.
They are totally and completely fucking stupid and the shellacking and the shell shock were fall down funny.
Doing the whirlwind 3 and 4 event days is not unlike a rock band...another day another venue with very little time to look at a newspaper. One day rolls into the next...one city looks like the last one. It's in this bubble that Willard let the grandeur of the crowds and hangers on grow. Surely everywhere he went during those last days he was seeing large crowds and his people were pumping him with good news to keep the ball rolling. That ball came to a brick wall called reality on Tuesday night.
What makes this unique is this bubble existed inside another bubble...the one created by Bullshit Mountain and hate radio. It's the one where Benghazi was the "worst scandal than Watergate" and how Willard looked surprised and then blindsided when the real facts of that situation hit him in the face at the second debate...Proceed gubnor...
So here in essence Willard lived in a real vaccuum...fact free and based on manufactured "scandals" and based on the assumption that a majority of the country thought like he did cause it was all he saw around him. The real story here is how a complete parallel universe has been created and how so many people were sucked into it...
I couldn't believe when they actually started using Limbaugh's points to campaign on.
they live in their own special little bubble, a bubble they thought still existed when the totally bullshited the nation and the supreme court into thinking george w. moron* had an ounce of brains.
Still believing their own bullshit, they thought their same "tried and true" method of heaping pile on pile of bullshit upon the American public would still work, "hell" they believed, "it worked twice before!" but twice before was also helped by various sycophants working and rigging the poles.
this time, Obama and his admin called them all on their bullshit and made sure there was no fixing of the machines as best as they could.
Still however, under their deluded haze of past "victories" they thought they could once again rest on their laurels, but alas...
[How many tries did he get? :
If their reality was this distorted even BEFORE they presumably got into the White House, actually being President makes it even harder to get real truths to penetrate.
Great post. K&R
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Welcome to DU!
workers are GOP/tea-party/birther. I was one of the 5 token libruls in my dept. of 50 employees and, though I wasn't at work the day after the elections, my co-dems told me it was silent as a tomb around the dept. on Wednesday. I am sure they cannot believe that God wanted President Obama back in for a 2nd term. It was so nice not to have to hear birthers spewing, Fux Nooz parrots, bible thumping, and Glenn Beck suckers. The next few weeks will really be interesting as they lick their wounds and try to figure out what went so wrong for them. They would never admit that they lost because they were on the side that promoted hate, fear, and intolerance.
Love won this election. 
...voting ourselves so much free stuff from Santa Claus.
...and you will start to think like them.
It might not even take a month, for most people, it might only take a week to start thinking like them, because they keep repeating their same lies over and over again until it starts to feel like the truth. It's called Brainwashing! 
I'm not just reporting what I heard about RW radio, I was forced to listen to it at two different jobs, one was in Orlando in 1993-1994 and one in Atlanta, 1998-2003. The people listening to this crap at the first job were all low-income Republicans and the second one was the owner of the photo lab I worked at, who paid his staff low wages but drove a Mercedes-Benz to work and his wife drove (alone) a Chevy Suburban. They would turn on these talk radio stations and leave them on all day long at high volume.
When I started to feel the brainwashing getting to me, I countered it by turning on NPR, something that did not make me very popular there and probably led to me being the first let go when the business started to decline.
I'm sure when most of them got home they would turn on Fox "news" for their evening programming. 
Btw, I was told by my boss with the Mercedes-Benz and the Chevy Suburban that Rush Limpballs told them all to go out and get a Chevy Suburban or some other big-ass SUV back in the late 1990s to get back at us Democrats.
I can't remember what they had labeled us back then.
so much more because of their shock and pain!
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And it didn't work! 
I love this country.
This was during the time when "you create your own reality" and "perception is reality" were on the rise. The marketing mantra where I worked was "We don't have problems. We only have solutions."
Anybody who dared speak truth about a less than wonderful situation, no matter how fixable the problem was...just to suggest something is not perfect or call it a problem...was immediately labeled "negative," dissed and when the chips were down, dumped.
"Houston, we have a problem?" Yeah, they'd be screwed.
Rove is a child of that era. He honestly believes that perception is reality and if you control perception, you control everyday reality. If you have enough money, you can do that to an extent...but no further.
There is some truth to it...but at a much deeper, less material level. Creating the right mindset leads to right decisions that can lead you to the reality you want to create. It all relates to "be the change you want to see." But there will be setbacks and while you're on the road to your personal reality, you may get run down by a drunk who can't drive to their reality fast enough. So you have to drive carefully and watch where you are going and keep an eye on the other cars that may be headed in a different direction toward a different reality.
Anyway, they were abusing a philosophy and turned it into bs, and the bs came back to bite the turd in the butt.
Which brings us to karma kickback, aka shit on a boomerang.
" Even if they knew Rove had arranged for some kind of vote-flipping scheme in OH (which might explain his weird behavior when OH was called for Obama),"
...Jon Hustead got scared; after Frittcass (sp) Wassermann started legal action on the illegal patches put on the Ohio voting machines. I think he thought about prison time and decided to cancel the flip, investigative reporters can be hard on cheaters.lol 
And so many other states were going Obama, he realized it wouldn't make a difference anyway.
