This is exactly how Obola “won.”
It's exactly how Pat Quinn "won" re-election as Governor of Illinois in 2010 when he had been consistently polling 8-12 points behind his Republican opponent for weeks on end. On election day, he magically "won" numerous areas of suburban Crook county where GOP signs had outnumbered his 3-to-1 before election day.
Unfortunately, most of the useful idiots in the GOP here just accepted Quinn's "win" at face value and retroactively decided that "Brady was a crappy candidate and ran a bad campaign" (when a week before the election, they were saying how effective his campaign had been)
Oh, and of course, RINO Mark Kirk (who had been polling far BEHIND Brady throughout the campaign season ) magically won on the same ballot because he "just worked harder". None of us saw Kirk lift a finger to campaign anywhere in Crook County aside from his own congressional district, but somehow, he had "worked harder". Perhaps Kirk was doing pct. walks in an invisibility cloak.