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In reply to the discussion: I can't stop marveling at rMoney's monumental arrogance [View all]tblue37
(68,426 posts)that the fix was in. Rove's behavior on FOX and the constant predictions from the right of a Romney landslide suggest that they were all pretty darned sure. Either the tsunami overwhelmed them because they hadn't adjusted for such high numbers, or else somehow someone undid the fix.
When I saw people waiting in line until past midnight to cast a vote despite the attempts to suppress their votes, I began to think that the voter suppression tactic might well have enormously enlarged the size of the Obama vote, so that the numbers that were set up to be fixed just were not enough.
I think they fixed 2008, too, and that he got many more votes than were reported--and also that many close congressional and other races were flipped to Republicans, but that the overwhelming numbers prevented the Republicans from successfully stealing the presidency then, and perhaps that is also what happened this time.