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RUSH: Back to the phones we go, Open Line Friday, Rush Limbaugh. Talent on loan from God-d.<\/p>\n

We go to Pittsburgh. Pat, welcome. Great to have you on the program. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Nice to be on the program.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I have a theory why part of the people may have stayed home and not voted, and I know it\u2019s gonna sound strange. But I know personally myself and a lot of people I know were being bombarded with so many phone calls. We were averaging 40 to 45 phone calls a day. That\u2019s just about impossible.<\/p>\n

RUSH: From all the candidates? I mean, not just presidential, but everybody calling you?<\/p>\n

CALLER: All the different groups. Most of it was presidential. A lot of it. Some of it was for senators, you know, other positions, in this area.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But it was just all day long. On top of that you got your mail, and 85% of it was political mail, and then you turn on the TV and you had the nasty ads. I think people just got burnt out. I voted. I\u2019ve never missed one. I\u2019m 60. I\u2019ve never missed an election in my life since I was old enough to vote. But I know of several people that finally put up their hands and where they were enthusiastic initially, they\u2019d just had it.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: It could be a factor. It could be \u2019cause those robo-calls were all over the place. But you know what you need? Were you getting those calls, too, and you\u2019re all bent out of shape about it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. I got to the point where I told my family that if they needed to get me, call me on my cell. I wasn\u2019t answering my house phone anymore.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I was gonna say, dump the land line and get a cell phone. The pollsters and those people don\u2019t have that numbers.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, I actually got a couple on the cell, too. (chuckling) They\u2019re randomly picking numbers.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, wait \u2019til they get all of our cell phone numbers. That\u2019s the next thing that\u2019ll probably happen. Anyway, that\u2019s as good a theory as any. In addition to that, I also think there was a significant percentage of the conservative base that was just fed up. They looked at Obama as a sitting duck. I mean, this economy is in bad shape, everything\u2019s horrible, Benghazi is happening. But they didn\u2019t see any apparent, real desire to win. They said, “Why should I support this?” After they had sent a bunch of money in, probably.<\/p>\n

Anyway, Pat, thanks for the call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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