Great post.
I totally underestimated Axlegrease, Pluffy, and Gibbs.
I figured 2008 was just a special set of circumstances and they lucked out.
Maybe the Romney folks made the same mistake.
Everybody made the same mistake. Romney himself was convinced he had won on election day. He performed extremely well, perhaps brilliantly under the circumstances.
Nobody knew Obama’s team had been going block-by-block for 4 years.