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Mrs. romney thought they were going to win. and the top staffers as well. they were convinced the polling they had internally was correct, and the public polling was overstating the nature of the democratic turnout. and they were wedded to that until the very end. romney thought on election day that he was going to win. he travelled to ohio and pennsylvania. you saw these huge crowds waiting for him at final stops in those two states. and the sources i talked to said that he was definitely convi...

Going to win. and the top staffers as well. they were convinced the polling they had internally was correct, and the public polling was overstating the nature of the democratic turnout. and they were wedded to that until the very end. romney thought on election day that he was going to win. he travelled to ohio and pennsylvania. you saw these huge crowds waiting for him at final stops in those two states. and the sources i talked to said that he was definitely convinced that victory was at hand....

In fact one of his closest advisers says if you didnt think we were going to win, theyre lying to you. they thought they were going to win. they were convinced that the polling they had internally was correct and that the public polling was overstating the nature of the democratic turnout. and they were into that until the very end. and romney thought on election day that he was going to win. he traveled to ohio and pennsylvania and you saw this huge crowd waiting for him at final stops in those...

Going to exhume tonight the guts of the thinking that went on and went so wrong. tonight, we get what we only guessed at, the results of which played out in the numbers of election night. the nasty, anti-immigrant politics, the attitude toward that 47%, the failure to turn out the white male vote, the reason romney picked ryan, and the wild prelude to the clint eastwood performance. tonight right here on "hardball," the dark aroma of what lies now beneath the dirt so we can understand what it lo...

States should not engage in austerity. basically, they are saying please steer away from that fiscal curve. >> it seems to me, the fiscal cliff, the fiscal curve is set up. >> just go with curve for the next hour and a half. >> we got it. >> its designed to force compromise between two competing philosophies of how do you stimulate the economy. on the romney side you stimulate the economy by reducing taxes on the super wealthy who they claim to be job creators. its a failed philosophy that is wr...

>> i was skeptical because i kept seeing the president going to college campus. s. i thought he ought to be back in the oval office. but getting out the vote and the stirring them up. >> you had also a new group of college students who were not the college students that were excited four years ago, but they were different college kids. >> 1% increase in their share of the vote. >> let me ask about this. like everybody on the planet, reacted to the first debate thinking the president, who we thou...

Obama is ahead in all but one, or tied in florida. that is a step forward from a week ago. what is wrong with male enhancement pills? >> dana: i am just saying if you want your presidency to look like a male enhancement ad, youd bring in mellencamp, and springstein. jay-z doesnt fid in the category. >> greg: billy joel. >> dana: right. eric, you a chart here youre making. >> eric: i chartered ryan and romney and where they are stopping today and tomorrow. romney will go to ohio. obama-biden and ...

Were not throwing hail marys in states well never win to try to get to 270. thats the difference between the two campaigns. i thought this was interesting because in some ways its an acknowledgment. governor romney got so much heat for that 47 pefrz commen 47% comment -pt. he said there are people out there we wont be able to persuade. isnt david axelrod in that statement saying exactly the same thing? >> i dont think so at all. what he was referring to i think was pennsylvania where governor ro...

Poll did two days ago, that there is going to be an 11% more democratic voting base, they got to a tie between romney and obama by saying it will the democrats 1 is% more likely to vote. thats higher than 2008. thats in conceivable. you have to wonder where their brain was at. on the other hand, if you believe as i do, as a lot of other key players do that the energy, the enthusiasm, the drive is on the romney side, ill give you one example. they are talking about democratic early voting in ohio...

Put away on the romney side. >> brian: exactly. or they could go the other way. it will be an exciting night. thank you for joining us. good luck. >> thanks, guys. >> gretchen: you just heard from the obama campaign. up next, team romneys turn. ed gillespie is here to respond to robert gibbs. >> steve: first, if you are listening to the radio in 1970, number one song, jackson five with "ill be there." ♪ just call my name ♪ ill be there ♪ [ male announcer ] in blind taste tests, even ragu u...