...is that they did not see it coming. I think they did...well...I think at least Romney’s campaign saw it coming.

I have a business acquaintance that is friends with Romney and has campaigned heavily for him. He has tried to recruit me several times over the years to his side but of course I have politely declined.

I happened to run into him the night before the election and he said "Congratulations, your guy won."

I had a laugh and said I was surprised he was giving up before the voting even started. He went on a bit of a rant about what is wrong with the people in this country and he said "The numbers just don't work. We can't win. It would be a miracle."

He seemed pretty bitter when I left and I did not give it too much thought until the following night when I saw live shots of the Romney campaign headquarters on television. It looked dead and the people looked like they had already lost. I thought about what this guy had said and I figured he was down there somewhere waiting with the rest of them to watch the results come in.

The talking heads kept saying "It's going to be a long night!" and hinting that we could still be trying sort this all out 10 days from now because it was all going to be so close. Then reality began to set in at like 10:30-11:00pm that this thing was over. Obama had won. Romney was finished and Rove was flipping out trying to find a way to pull a rabbit out of his hat.

I think they knew they couldn't make it but they wanted to hope something could happen and that idiot Rove that took millions from people claiming he could create a win probably kept babbling about it not being over yet...but it was over...it was over before we even started voting.