Were they really that confident they were going to win?
I'm just surprised it was as close as it was.
Well, the polls were very close, within the margin of error, and the democrats (wrongly as it turned out) figured that with their vote fraud and unprecedented turn-out effort, they probably couldn't lose. What they didn't count on is our side doing our best to keep vote fraud to a minimum (at least in key places) and the unprecedented mobilization on our side.