If you'd hung around /r/Conservative during the last weeks of the 2012 presidential elections, you were bound to see /u/the_senator's links to polling data that painted a relatively optimistic picture of Romney's chances at victory.

The_Senator's activity increased exponentially as November drew near, culminating into a frenzy of posts on election day... and frenzy lasting until it was evident beyond a shadow of doubt that Romney didn't have a chance in hell at defeating Obama. And he was gone, like that, never to return. At least not in the guise of /r/The_Senator.

But, who was he? Or she, let's not forget we're SJWs here.

I'm of the mind that /u/The_Senator was a political operative whose job was to propagate the lie that Romney could defeat the president when, for months, polling data was painting an entirely different picture.

Romney wasn't there guy. Arcons, and most conservative it seemed, were not so pumped about a Romney presidency as they were about the end of the Obama regime. And, if they felt that Romney had no chance at victory, which he didn't, then they'd have likely said fuck it to voting and ensure an Obama victory.

I believe it was The_Senator's job to ensure the Arcons got out to vote with a steady stream of bullshit polling data and game-day trivia, which is why his last post was literally posted around the time polls had closed across the nation.

I don't mean to imply that anyone thought Arcon was all that important in the scheme of things, and The_Senator was just one piece of a larger plot to pull the wool over the eyes of the conservative base. I mean, c'mon, there were too many bullshit polls from the right for it to be a coincidence.