I still find it remarkable that Republicans running Mitt Romney’s campaign seemed to genuinely believe that he was winning.
This November article from The New Republic looks at what happened. Read: The Polls That Made Mitt Romney Think He’d Win.
Gwen Ifill of the PBS NewsHour commented on the same bizarre feature of the presidential election in this video piece reviewing 2012:
Here in Australia it’s possible to find people who genuinely believe that the Gillard government is going to be re-elected. Many blogs supportive of the ALP promote the argument that Tony Abbott is unelectable. Equally, there are Coalition supporters who cannot contemplate the possibility. As in the US, one side is going to be very wrong later this year.