I hadn’t thought he needed to do much stealing. Romney didn’t campaign like his heart was in it. I thought I understood campaigning until I watched our new president on the day before the election flying around the country and putting his heart into everyone. THAT was campaigning. And there was such a large group of people who wanted to virtue signal by voting for Obama, even if they weren’t on Obama’s team.
Romney went ahead in the polls in August and it showed as he was out fundraising Obama by alot. Then he went limp and campaigned like a squish, and got squished himself.