A reasonable guess this time as well considering that she ended up with 44% when most of the polls showed she would have trouble breaking 40%.
It is interesting that most of the night she was around 41% until it became clear she was going to lose big, then all those precincts famous for fraudulent votes finally came in and goosed her up to 44%.
Combine what you said with her statement that she “isn’t done” and the insinuations/spin that it was a close race.
The conclusion is that all those stops were pulled out in the final few weeks to preserve her political viability for future elections. A 20+ point thashing would be impossible to ever come back from. 12 points is a different story.
One thing to add is that I’m still not convinced there’s as much fraud as people think there is. I keep returning to that PJ Media story on the Dem’s “Catalist” voter turnout system. It really seems that they’ve perfected (for now) the ability to drag unmotivated base voters to the polls.
That, vice fraud, can explain a 50% drop in margin from the last set of polls to the actual results, given that it was a 40% turnout election.
Also, read on another thread that there were no exit polls conducted. Thats too bad, would be nice to see the demographic breakdowns.