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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most of the Republicans I know were absolutely and totally CONVINCED Romney would win. They really seemed to have no idea what was coming. The shock just took them to a really angry place. I have been wondering how they could have missed it as the news I was hearing all along was that the race was neck-and-neck, and if you believed Nate Silver (which it turns out we should have) then it was Obama. Whichever candidate you preferred, it just makes no sense that it should be a surprise that Obama would win under those circumstances. So why the total surprise? I hypothesize that a lot of Republicans listen to editorialized news without realizing it or perhaps without contextualizing what they are hearing and then they pass that information between them as if it were real. Maybe there is a situation here where opinion and fact are getting confused.[/quote]
I agree with this point.  I think many Republicans (certainly not all, but a lot of them) have bought into the belief that the "lame-stream media" won't give them true info, so they get all their news from Fox and similar outlets.  As a result, they're in some crazy echo chamber where they don't hear any diversity of opinion.  I definitely know several Republicans in that mode.[/quote]

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