Thankfully for future GOP campaigns, the Romney team and Karl Rove seem to have successfully convinced the GOP’s billionaire mega-donors that it was all money well-spent and Romney was on course to a smashing victory until Chris Christie rode into final days on Unicorn Sandy.
From the Post …
“A lot of people feel like Christie hurt, that we definitely lost four or five points between the storm and Chris Christie giving Obama a chance to be bigger than life,” said one of Romney’s biggest fundraisers, who requested anonymity to speak candidly.
With the election over, walking in to the office today, I was thinking about the greatest moments in derp, the high points in low, great moments of ridiculousness, shark jumping and just general ‘D’oh!’
What are yours? I’m going to start the conversation with the great moment when NBC released a pre-unskewed version of its own poll, which turned out to the be the high point of the Unskewed Poll movement. It seemed to have such a bright future. But I’m not sure it can survive the results of Tuesday night’s election.
What was your greatest election moment in ‘D’oh!’?
The new Senate will have a record 20 women senators.
So what happened on the voter suppression front? Our reporter on that beat is Ryan Reilly and he’s starting a Live Chat right now at TPMPrime. Ask your questions now.
Dean Chambers, founder of Unskewed Poll Movement, talks to TPM about how things panned out.
Give Chambers credit. He’s not making any excuses. He had a theory. Turned out to be wrong.
Franklin Graham: Fine Obama won. But now God will destroy America.
CBS has a piece up reporting that Romney and his whole team were “shellshocked”, as a Romney advisor put it, by Tuesday night’s results. The time to say you’re supremely confident of victory is before the election. That’s when it matters in terms of keeping supporters pumped and getting them to the polls. The need to keep up the facade isn’t nearly as great after the election, win or less. And the piece is so graphic and stark in its detail that I’m half convinced that they really were that shocked and unprepared for defeat. Read More