2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Mitt on Netflicks, a deeply disturbing documentary [View all]TlalocW
(15,633 posts)Who was always handed whatever he wanted on a silver plate. He couldn't process actually having to work for something, and he felt it was demeaning that he had to deal with "inferiors" and ask them for their support. He still felt though that like everything else in life, he would get it because he "deserved" it, and he surrounded himself with not only stupid people like his sons and advisers but insulated himself in a right-wing echo chamber (FOX) who were either as stupid as the aforementioned sons/advisers or just plain being dishonest about his chances because they never seem to focus on how Mitt needed to win 270 electoral votes, how many paths he had (which were already fewer than the paths Obama had). They focused a lot on national polls (and probably conservatively biased national polls) instead of state polls. The national polls probably told them what they wanted to hear - that people were not liking the president, but the important state polls were breaking for Obama or starting to move his way. The FOX talking heads pretty much ignored that for whatever reason except for one person - Dennis Miller, who told O'Reilly that a lot of important state polls were going for Obama, but he, "DIDN'T BELIEVE THEM!" (emphasis mine)
You can find enough footage for 2 hours to make just about anyone seem like a decent fellah, but when you look at his life as a whole, I'm so thankful that he didn't win.
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