2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHow Conservative Media Lost to the MSM and Failed the Rank and File
Barack Obama just trounced a Republican opponent for the second time. But unlike four years ago, when most conservatives saw it coming, Tuesday's result was, for them, an unpleasant surprise. So many on the right had predicted a Mitt Romney victory, or even a blowout -- Dick Morris, George Will, and Michael Barone all predicted the GOP would break 300 electoral votes. Joe Scarborough scoffed at the notion that the election was anything other than a toss-up. Peggy Noonan insisted that those predicting an Obama victory were ignoring the world around them. Even Karl Rove, supposed political genius, missed the bulls-eye. These voices drove the coverage on Fox News, talk radio, the Drudge Report, and conservative blogs.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/11/how-conservative-media-lost-to-the-msm-and-failed-the-rank-and-file/264855/
PsychProfessor
(204 posts)Why didn't anyone give them a reality check? I mean, maybe they would not listen. But I kept looking for someone somewhere to be sounding a realistic note. But no one did. It isn't right and I do feel bad that these folks are, now, totally shocked and stunned: Believing that there must have been malfeasance because everyone knows "the election was sooo close and Romney was surging." Someone might have at least tried to warn them.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,711 posts)Roy Ellefson
(279 posts)yesterday evening as I left work my fox news loving colleague was smug and happy absolutely certain of a Romney win...in fact he was doing some pre-election results gloating. Today he is very quiet...very quiet. He seems confused and disoriented as if everything he holds dear is gone. It would be interesting to be able to read his mind.
Cush
(9,479 posts)Didn't get their horse race
The EC and Pop Vote were not split
No tie in the EC
No prolonged vote counts to keep people watching for days
......etc