So WHO lied to you?

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7. A lot of people, including a lot of DUers, operate in an echo chamber and hear and report only what they want to hear

Let's face a hard truth: while I think the large majority of DUers recognized that the election could be won or lost, there also were a lot of wildlly over-optimistic predictions being made here on DU. The folks making those predictions need to step back and consider whether there was ever any real factual underpinnings for their predictions.