I have this same question: How could Candy possibly "check the transcript" if the transcript wasn't already positioned for her to do so?
Collusion? Not necessarily! Worse. American Communists didn’t have to collude with the Soviets. Some did, some didn’t. It was and is a matter of faith. Sweet Candy might have anticipated Romney’s line against her god, it wasn’t that hard to do, and she prepared, entirely out of her own free will to respond.
An acquaintance who defected years ago from the Soviet block, told me how the teachers there were forced under the gun to teach falsified history. They did and some of them sometimes winked at their students. The man could not believe that teachers in America, a free country, would do the same and do it voluntarily. As I said, worse, much worse.