The view from a different galaxy

Want to know how and why people who watch Fox News were so confident Romney was going to win and then so shocked when he didn't?

Think Progress has an excellent list of some of the brazen commentary on the right and how confident they were of a big win.

My favorites:

1. Dick Morris: “This is going to be a landslide.” The former Clinton adviser predicted a dominant Romney win, calling it “the biggest surprise in recent American political history.” Claiming that polls were oversampling Democrats, Morris wondered if “it will rekindle the whole question on why the media played this race as a nailbiter.”

3. Karl Rove: “At least 279 electoral votes.” “It comes down to numbers. And in the final days of this presidential race, from polling data to early voting, they favor Mitt Romney,” Rove wrote in a WSJ op-ed ignoring the fact that most polls showed growing momentum for the president. He predicted that Romney will win 51 percent of the popular vote and “at least 279 electoral votes.”

5. Larry Kudlow: “Yes, that’s right: 330 electoral votes.” CNBC personality Larry Kudlow bet Romney would “sweep the Midwest,” a point on which Michigan, Wisconsin, and Ohio beg to differ. He was so excited about his prediction that Romney would get 330 votes that he repeated it twice — despite the fact that he was making the call two weeks out from the election.

8. Dean Chambers: “The race has shifted profoundly in favor of Mitt Romney.”It appears the election has unskewed the unskewer. Chambers, the proprietor of the famous “correcting biased polls” UnskewedPolls.com, made two predictions before the election. While both obviously called a Romney win, the first one predicted a landslide — 359 electoral votes, even larger than Barone’s — the second, more sober assessment called a more modest 275. Chambers may owe Nate Silver, whom he described as “a man of very small stature, a thin and effeminate man with a soft-sounding voice that sounds almost exactly like the ‘Mr. New Castrati’ voice used by Rush Limbaugh on his program” in what appeared to be a takedown piece, something of an apology.

9. Newt Gingrich: “A Romney landslide.” The former House Speaker predicted that Romney will take 53 percent of the popular vote and at least 300 electoral college votes. “My personal guess is you’ll see a Romney landslide, 53 percent-plus . . . in the popular vote, 300 electoral votes-plus,” Gingrich said. He also predicted that Republicans “may come very close to capturing control of the Senate.” He apologized for the faulty call the morning after the election.

Dean Chambers, www.unskewedpolls.com

My particular favorite is #8 Dean Chambers, who looks exactly like you think he'd look.  What a POS. He could not have been more wrong.  But just think, if you watched a media network that ran these sort of self-confident predictions all day long and told you how the polls are all wrong and Romney is going to win big, you too would be shocked when on election day you find out nothing you had been told was true.  

Of course that's presuming Fox News viewers will actually be told that they were lied to.  Not a chance actually.  Instead they will be told that all their "unskewed polls" were correct right up until the hurricane hit and that changed everything.  It's a lie to cover a lie.  They will never be told that there was absolutely no reality to their belief that Romney had this in the bag and would win big.  Their world will consist of a hurricane that changed history, Black Panthers and rampant voter fraud.  Oh and media bias.  The election was stolen again.