They might be instructed to "leak" this information to let your guard down and take the wind out of peoples' sails.
"Hey, you don't have a supermajority."
"We don't have a supermajority."
"Nice! Time to go write about it on the internet so other people think there's no work left to be done!"
I'd take the facebook likes with a grain of salt. Creators of those groups can change the title at-will, or some times pages will trick you into clicking "like" before viewing content. Or, he's into big butts and he can not lie.
hah