I really do not think President Obama thought Social Security would ever get cut.

[Maraya1969]

19. I take back my statment that it was a risk. I say he did it with 100% certainty that it

would not be accepted. Remember our President is not a dumb guy. Actually he is extremely intelligent. And he has worked behinds the scenes many times before while we all pulled our hair out only to come out shining as we all breathed a sigh of relief and astonishment. Remember the last election. It was only afterwards, after we fretted even while reading Nate Silver that we found out he had a state of the art campaign like no other has ever had. He had behavior psychologists and sociologists working on the campaign. They had the whole thing mapped out. Even the volunteers were taught what to say based on scientific research. One of the things they would ask a person when canvasing is when they thought they were going to vote because if the person actually gave a date they were more likely to go through with it. And then they would have them sign a card saying they were going to vote and that just reinforced it in the person's brain. And the card just happened to have a picture of Barack Obama on it.

These things were applied on every level of the campaign. They knew what they were doing. President Obama knows what he is doing. Mitt Romney did not know what he was doing and that is why he was stunned when he lost. He didn't even know how to follow the statisticians.