{"id":14032,"date":"2012-11-06T18:49:02","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T18:49:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-11-06T18:49:02","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T18:49:02","slug":"report_from_an_iowa_poll_watcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/11\/06\/report_from_an_iowa_poll_watcher\/","title":{"rendered":"Report from an Iowa Poll Watcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: This is Jim in central Iowa. You\u2019re up first today. Great to have you with us. Hi.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thanks for taking my call.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You bet, sir.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Mega dittos. Of course, I think nowadays we ought to almost call it giga dittos. Big, bigger, more. Hey, I\u2019ve been listening to you this morning as I do many mornings. I just got off duty as a poll watcher in central Iowa and I just have to tell you that my feelings and your feelings are pretty close together.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Let me ask you a question, Jim. Jim, what does a poll watcher watch?<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_69201\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RushStopObamaismFlag.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well, our primary duty &#8212; other than making sure there\u2019s no skullduggery going on that we can bring to the attention of officials that are there recording votes &#8212; is to take the list of voters that have passed through the lines and cast their ballots. We get a copy of that list, and we can check it off on our Republican side and see what has voted.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay. So you can get an idea what the party turnout is.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yes, exactly.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Because of the registration. Same thing in my polling place. I mean, they know&#8230; No, wait a second, now. Wait a second. Forget that. I may be totally naive. Does the registration that you have in front of you indicate somebody shows up and who they are? Does it say they\u2019re Republican or Democrat?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: No, they don\u2019t, but &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Then how do you know Republicans&#8230;? How do you know that Republican turnout is up where you are?<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_69206\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/ROmneyIowaVote.jpg\"\/><BR\/>CALLER: I go to my list provided to me by our county Republican people that are registered Republicans, and the state verifies it for us through the Republican Party, and we check against the list of Republican people that have voted. We say, &#8220;Oh, I\u2019ve got that name. I can check it off. I don\u2019t have that or that. Oh, I\u2019ve got that one,&#8221; and here\u2019s my tally from the first two hours of pretty good voting for this time in the morning. It\u2019s seven in the morning. It\u2019s kind of raining, dreary. It was, anyway. I had recorded on the second precinct 78 total voters coming through the line recording a vote. I found 32 of those 78 on that list were registered Republicans. I could verify that much. I don\u2019t know how they voted, of course.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: That\u2019s less than 50%.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well, a little bit less than 50%, but then if you sit and look at the person across from me who is doing the same thing I\u2019m doing for the Democratic Party, they had a mere handful. I believe she said it was seven.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, wait a minute. You got 78 people, 38 Republicans and seven Democrats. Who are the others?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Thirty-two registered Republicans went through the line out of that 78.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=37804\"><img id=\"eZObject_69200\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/00-24_7Self585.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: And seven or eight Democrats were identified by her sitting across from me.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay, that\u2019s 45 people out of 78.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Right, and you know what the rest are? Independents.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay, and you don\u2019t know how they\u2019re voting.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: No. No, we certainly don\u2019t. But if we\u2019re doing our job right here in central Iowa, we\u2019ve contacted them and we sent them information. We followed up on the absentee ballot list.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay. So in his little corner of the world, it\u2019s 38-7, Republicans over Democrats, the rest independents. Thanks for that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: This is Jim in central Iowa. You\u2019re up first today. Great to have you with us. Hi. CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thanks for taking my call. RUSH: You bet, sir. CALLER: Mega dittos. Of course, I think nowadays we ought to almost call it giga dittos. Big, bigger, more. 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