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In reply to the discussion: I think Romney quits by the end of the week. [View all]SheilaT
(23,156 posts)People running for office at almost any level are in a bubble. I imagine that the bubble a presidential candidate is in is very large, and does not admit any reality at all.l
When you run for office, you really think you might win, no matter how objectively hopeless it is.
Just look back at all those who were running earlier this year, and you can see that they really though they might win it, no matter how obvious it was to us on the outside that there was no chance at all that a given candidate (Christie, or Huntsman, or Perry, for instance) had.
Romney, as the presumptive nominee, is so far inside that bubble that most objective reality simply does not penetrate. It's not just that he doesn't look at DU, it's that he and absolutely no one around him looks at anything that is not strongly pro-Romney.
I have once or twice in my life been inside such a bubble, and only for a very short time, but the bubble factor is huge.