Why Romney was blindsided by his loss, and why he lost

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Two good and thoughtful articles about how Romney managed to be, truly, blindsided by the electoral landslide that buried him and everyone but the conservative bubble saw coming. Just as an aside: about 37% of the country classifies itself as "conservative", about 27% classifies itself as "liberal"

First article about the technical failures of the Romney campaign, their GOTV, their polling, etc.

Why Romney Never Saw It Coming
He was the numbers guy. But in the end his numbers were all wrong.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_a...ors_picks=true

Inside the Romney campaign massive IT failure on election day:
http://arstechnica.com/information-t...n-it-meltdown/


Second article about how, it's not that conservative policy has failed, but it's what the current conservative movement has embraced - denial of truth, ignoring facts in favor of desired opinion.

"Fantasyland - Denial has poisoned the GOP and threatens the rest of the country too" http://nymag.com/news/frank-rich/gop-denial-2012-11/