Prior to Tuesday's election the outcome was anything but certain. Poll-meister Nate Silver gave Obama's chances of winning somewhere in the 70-80% range, but there were a lot of unknowns and uncertainty. Would supporters show up? Would the voters still be registered when they got there? Would their IDs be accepted? Would the votes be counted? What if the polls were wrong?
There was enough uncertainty that the candidates and their supporters should have been prepared for it to go either way. Mitt Romney and his supporters, however, seemed to think it was a done deal except for the (vote) counting. They weren't really prepared to lose. They were genuinely shocked (not just disappointed) that he lost, and acted out in ways that are really unseemly.
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