BOSTON — As Election Day heads into its final hours, the Romney campaign is sending out bits and pieces of good news they say point toward a GOP victory tonight. Romney aides and strategists have taken over the floor of the Boston Garden as an election-night headquarters, and are patching together a picture of what is happening from exit polls and reports from polling places.

In addition, Republican activists, donors, and reporters are converging on the Boston Convention Center, where the public Romney election night event will take place.  Among GOP movers and shakers, there seems to be much late-afternoon optimism. It’s also based on little fragments of information, tips from people around the country, and perhaps a little wishful thinking.  But here is how the Romney campaign, plus some of those movers and shakers, view the situation: