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In reply to the discussion: Anonymous Claims It Stopped Karl Rove From Hacking The Election By Hacking ORCA [View all]CoffeeCat
(24,411 posts)...certain groups were on the Romney side. Donors gave tens of millions. These were some of the most rich, powerful and successful people on the planet. They made those bets because they were given assurances--and even certainties--by Rove.
Rove convinced them that a Romney win was in the bag. Rove circled the polling and pundit wagons as well. Fox News personalities spun their forecasts of a Romney landslide. Who puts their reputation and credibility on the line like that??? People who rig the outcome or have been given assurances of the outcome. That's who. Why do you think Dick Morris, Rove, Hannity, Barone and others confidently predicted landslides when all non-partisan data showed the exact opposite. These are wealthy, Ivy-Leaguers; not idiots. All they had to do was jump onto Nate Silver's site and analyze the data. Rasmussen, Gallup and Gravis joined in the charade to give mathematical "evidence" would validate their rigged win.
It wasn't just Rove's behavior that was suspect. The entire Romney campaign reeked of odd, bizarre behavior.
Look at Romney himself. He didn't even write a concession speech. Really? How the frick is your own campaign oblivious to the fact that you will lose in a landslide, when your constant, daily polling data should show you that very outcome? The Obama team knew the numbers were on their side. They called Romney's bluff. Romney kept insisting realities that were fantastical--PA win, OH win, WI, MI wins.
I can see being confident in a close race. However, this was not close. Read Game Change, and listen to Steve Schmidt discuss how his team knew that they would lose--even a month before the election. And we're supposed to believe that Romney didn't anticipate his loss in a campaign where Obama won 330 electoral votes? Really now.
I think the whole Romney campaign was kabuki theater, up until his concession speech. Not everyone knew or was in on the electronic vote rigging, but key Romney players and pundits were fed Romney electoral landslide fantasies by those who were rigging it.