Latest Breaking News
In reply to the discussion: Mitt Romney: 'It kills me' not to be president [View all]Mayberry Machiavelli
(21,096 posts)There were plenty of results coming in well before Ohio (PA, MI, MN, WI as significant losses and VA and FL and NC being super close) that were already showing that Mitt and the GOP's model of the electorate was way off, in the wrong direction. This should have given him a clue that IA, NV and CO had a good chance of going against him as well.
As it was, the earlier results from PA and the Midwest were already putting the electoral vote totals to where Mitt would have needed a miracle "inside straight" from the Western states, and picking up VA and FL, to win, so his chances were long at best even before Ohio. Ohio wasn't even the final nail in the coffin, I believe that CO or NV sealed the deal even before Ohio came in although I'm not 100 percent sure about that.
So if it's true that he thought he had it won until Ohio then he's a bigger idiot than previously believed. At minimum he should have realized that a Romney win would be a total skin of the teeth cliffhanger job in the BEST scenario for him.