I can't stop marveling at rMoney's monumental arrogance

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131. On another thread Botany and some others have offered a plausible

explanation. They pointed to Husted, the Secretary of State for Ohio who was slammed by two federal judges, first for trying to cut early voting hours and then for trying to change the rules on provisional ballots so they would be discarded. They suggested that with all the scrutiny--the Dem lawyers and other watchers on the ground, the pushback from federal judges who were focused on Husted himself specifically, etc.--perhaps Husted realized that he could get caught if he pulled the trigger to switch votes, and that he would be looking at hard time in the federal pen if he was caught, so he chickened out and didn't follow through with what he was supposed to make happen.

Add to that possibility the overwhelming tsunami of votes for Obama, and it sounds like a scenario that could surprise those, like Rove, who clearly thought the fix was in.

I don't think there is any question that Rove's reaction on TV and the reaction of Romney and his team were the flabbergasted responses of a bunch of people who had just had the rug pulled out from under them because they were so certain they had it all arranged to go differently.

Furthermore, the over the top predictions by pundits--not just FOX wackos like Dick Morris, but even the ordinarily sober George Will--that Romney would win in a landslide rather than just a squeaker were so at odds with the polls that they had to be based on the assumption that something was going to ensure his big win.