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People like to forget that most every single poll but Gallup & Ras showed Romney behind in every swing state all summer & fall. And we now know what trash Gallup & Ras turned out to be.

Rasmussen had Obama 237 EVs, Romney 206 EVs, 95 tossup. Hardly a favorable prediction for Romney. It was a pretty close election. While I found it hard to believe that there weer that many idiots who would vote for Obama, it seemed apparent that Romney would not have an easy win.

Ras electoral map

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RE :”People like to forget that most every single poll but Gallup & Ras showed Romney behind in every swing state all summer & fall. And we now know what trash Gallup & Ras turned out to be.
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Rasmussen had Obama 237 EVs, Romney 206 EVs, 95 tossup. Hardly a favorable prediction for Romney. It was a pretty close election. While I found it hard to believe that there weer that many idiots who would vote for Obama, it seemed apparent that Romney would not have an easy win. “

BTW : that first comment above('most every single poll') was not mine but I agreed with the general idea in my reply to it.

I remember all the teeth gnashing and whining whenever Rasmussen would show a poll of his with Obama ahead of Romney. Then the other ones of his that showed Romney ahead of O would be cited as gospel.
One Republican I know personally repeated to me :”Even Rasmussen admits he over-samples Dems in his polls” which made no sense why he would say his own polling methods were wrong.

Like I pointed out above, the Romney campaign was inept and many Republicans (certainly here) are prone to overoptimism every four years.

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RE:” While I found it hard to believe that there weer that many idiots who would vote for Obama, i...”

If someone has no health insurance and no or little money and Obama promises to DIRECTLY have the gubment give it to them for free (expanded medicaid) and he says he will pay for it by ‘asking those greedy rich white males to pay a little more’ that probably sounds pretty alluring to them.

Romney replied that tax cuts for ‘job creators’ (who appeared to be everyone who pays Federal taxes) would provide more jobs, maybe not for him though.

So if the election is a contest of who is the biggest Santa then Obama is going to win.

Don't forget those free abortion pills.