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So these guys were saying exactly what most of you were saying here and now they are schmucks??

This place became a fantasyland echo chamber and people like Morris, Barone, etc, fed into it. The polls always pointed to a Obama win. The state level polls were clear as a bell, Hussein was poised to win a narrow victory. The vast majority of the election commentators/analysts were calling for a narrow Obama victory - including Cook, Sabato, Silver, etc. Meanwhile here on FR people were mindlessly yammering about "unskewing" polls when it was clear they had no idea what they were talking about.

It's really time for folks to face reality. There is not a silent majority in this country any longer for the old traditional American values. We are well along the way to becoming a European welfare state. We probably cross the tipping point during Obama's first term with all the new people dependent on government.

I think Romney could have won it when he was trending +5 on Gallup. But the storm did him in. I knew it would. People here don't understand just how "flaky" some of the voting public really is. They think that all voters vote based on some kind of ideological conviction, and that's just not the case. In a fairly evenly split country like ours, the voters who ultimately determine the race are flakes. At this time, the Democrats are winning the flakes.

In the end, I held out some hope, but I knew it would come down to about 1 percent, I had hoped for Romney, but alas, it did not.