Team Romney was "conned" by consultants. Here's the choice quote:
They say that the truth is the consultants essentially used the Romney campaign as a money making scheme, forcing employees to spin false data as truth in order to paint a rosy picture of a successful campaign as a form of job security.
Sounds to me like those consultants learned well from the likes of Bain, Goldman Sachs, etc. Now we're supposed to feel bad for them? Ha!