Did the Romney campaign believe they would win at the end

[TTS1996]

The curious thing is, outside of America (where, I know, it didn't matter at all as no one here had a vote) nobody - not me who backed Romney, nor anyone else - ever got the impression it was anything other than an Obama walkover. Not just "Here in non-America we all back Obama" but "Even over there in America it's almost impossible Obama can lose".

Most of this - bizarre as I think it might seem to Americans on the board, at least GOP-ers - boiled down to "Romney is a hard-right nutjob, and so unelectable". It seemed almost tautological; Romney was the GOP nominee - the GOP are hard-right nutjobs - therefore Romney's a hard-right unelectable nutjob. Despite Romney being about as much a Bircher nutjob as, well, John McCain.

But the rhetoric of practically all the media in the non-American Anglosphere took up that message. I think not because of Romney-hatred but GOP-hatred and servile Obama-love; even in 2012 the treatment of Obama as some sort of film star hadn't worn off.

And yet this is a question for the GOP - the "West" (eg Australia, Britain etc) media didn't give a damn for American politics through much of 2009, 2010, 2011. Yet when Obama came up for election in 2012 the whole Yes We Can hero-worship stars-in-the-eyes bullsh@@t machine cranked up over here all over again as if nothing had changed since 2008. Why?