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In reply to the discussion: Romney actually BELIEVED he was going to win [View all]applegrove
(118,622 posts)52. It used to be that candidates were not told their numbers if they were
bad. Don't know if it is still true.
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Well, to be fair, he also thinks tax cuts to billionaires create 12,000,000 jobs
SoonerPride
Nov 2012
#3
No, that's one he was going to make good on with 10 million job terminations, replaced with
patrice
Nov 2012
#10
My personal conspiracy theory is that we just did some financial house-cleaning for them ....
patrice
Nov 2012
#5
I hope he is off licking his wounds somewhere, with no plans to step onto the
SammyWinstonJack
Nov 2012
#16
Steve Schmidt said they knew three weeks before the election, that McCain would lose...
CoffeeCat
Nov 2012
#28
We are forgetting that he was raised by his family to believe that he was to be the great Mormon
jwirr
Nov 2012
#22
Yep - you got it. But Rove is a narcissist who thinks he has a "golden touch" and believed it too.
Michigan Alum
Nov 2012
#44
They believed it too, I'm sure. They prob. only listen to Faux News and had some effed up pollsters.
Michigan Alum
Nov 2012
#40
I bet they were listening to "Boss Rove" who was either in la-la land or thought they stole it.
Michigan Alum
Nov 2012
#43
I'm really not that sure about this "belief". NBC was reporting that Mitt's own exit polls were...
adirondacker
Nov 2012
#50