Romney had Fireworks Planned in Boston.

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Why was he so delusional about his chances? I know everyone who runs for president is in it to win it, but come on. These things are obvious nowadays to people who pay attention, and no one pays more attention than the candidates themselves. By the end of the campaign it was obvious who was winning.

I guess he was sucked in to the Fox News vacuum as well?

Pretty much my thoughts. A transition website already up and ready to go, no concession speech, and fireworks now. Might just be that when you live the extremely high end, instantly gratifying lifestyle he lives, you maybe figure you'll just win.

Of course he's going to be prepared for a victory. Anyone would be in that situation. And he did have a concession speech ready - he was just trying to express confidence, and admitting they had one ready would be spun as them expecting a loss, which could bring less to the polls. I don't get why so many are making such a big deal about that.

Actually I'm with Tmth on that one. Clearly, I don't feel bad for Romney, cause millions of $ will guarantee he'll recover quite well quite quick, but come on, cut him some slack : you absolutely know that hadn't he prepared festivities for the win, someone would've twitted that for the liberal media to use (and I'm talking of the real liberal media here) to say he doesn't believe in his own victory.
Same goes for the Prez-elect website.
Same goes for the "not having written a concession speech" thingy.
We would've posted those things here right on, and gloated about them. And we would've been right to gloat, because in Twitter society 2.0, those kind of things actually can give or take a few momentum points to a race.

So no, really, of course the campaign had a firework. Few red avatars here can say they were not a tad bit worried until the last week, so why would the Romney campaign wouldn't be a bit confident, really confident ?