I have no doubt that Obama will win, but

[WeekendWarrior]

I strolled over to freeperville and found this post:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2955184/posts

These guys are CONVINCED that Romney is going to win and are giddy with the idea that Nate Silver will look like a fool.

Is it pure delusion? I really don't get how they can look at the numbers objectively and think Romney has even a slim chance of taking the White House.

[RedSpartan]

1. The answer is in your post.

They can't look at the numbers objectively...

[GallopingGhost]

2. These are the same people

who were telling themselves last week that California and Connecticut are in play, so I vote for delusional.

[ExVAguy]

13. Not gonna happen.

No way CA or CT are in play. A repub winning there is a pipe dream.

[GallopingGhost]

15. You think?

lol

[hrmjustin]

3. My friend they are nuts. Do not get worried about them boasting, because they are trying to get...

... their base out to vote.

[WeekendWarrior]

4. Oh, I'm not worried

I haven't been worried for months about the outcome of this election. But it just amazes me that these people can take the complete opposite view when the numbers are clear.

I suppose I shouldn't be surprised...

[hrmjustin]

9. I do not get them either, but these are life's mysteries.

[hoosierlib]

5. Right-wing media...

Their spin is that all the polls are over representing Democratic voters. They are in for a rude awakening come tomorrow.

[Life Long Dem]

6. I think they are trying to psych us out

Has to be some kind of psychology they are using, maybe to get us to think they are going to steal this. If they know they are not going to win this, they might be thinking they can get us all worried. Who knows, I don't really know. Maybe they are delusional as you said.

[faithfulcitizen]

7. It's simple: They don't understand or believe in science.

Never have, never will... here's a quote that goes to show they clearly do not understand statistics. If anything, democrats are being underpolled. They just cannot face facts and are in complete denial.

"LOL!

Nate Silver’s confidence depends on an accurate reading of the 9% of the voting public who have been polled.

It says nothing about the 90% who have NOT been contacted and whose voting intentions remain unknown.

That’s a big leap to take and the pollsters are not even going that far!"

[Jennicut]

8. Those same statistics had Bush ahead in the national polling in 2004.

And ahead in the majority of the state polling back then.

These people are idiotic. They don't have a basic understanding of how stats work at all.

[faithfulcitizen]

10. right, and they don't get that it's not just Nate Silver, it's almost everyone.

[MSMITH33156]

11. Why is any of this surprising?

The entire party is built on the premise that when confronted with facts that conflict what they want the truth to be, then the facts are wrong.

[NCLefty]

12. My boyfriend's big-banker co-workers are all convinced Romney is going to win.

And yes, he feels like a fish-out-of-water there :/

[TexasCPA]

14. They are probably looking at unskewedpolls.com