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RUSH: The Commerce Department has issued their initial estimate for the third quarter GDP: grew at one-and-a-half percent. This is a disaster for this country. It is literally a disaster. John Podhoretz at Commentary magazine has a little post here that puts some of this in perspective. He says that the economic growth rate of one-and-a-half percent is quite simply catastrophic for President Kardashian. The economy is weakening, is what this means. The economy is weakening as the election approaches. Now, Podhoretz says no one\u2019s ever won reelection in such circumstance. Nobody, no one. Forget the unemployment statistic, which is no incumbent has ever been reelected with the unemployment rate higher than 7.9%. Throw that out. No one has ever won reelection with the economy contracting, which it\u2019s doing. <\/p>\n

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Now, he points out that things are not as bad for Obama as they were for Jimmy Carter. In the second quarter of 1980, the economy actually contracted by .7%. However, get this. This surprised me. Oh, I should tell you, Rasmussen\u2019s out today with a poll that has Romney up five. Romney is up over Obama by five points, and that is identical to the lead Obama had at this very same time in 2008, five-point lead. Now, 1936, FDR won a landslide despite the Great Depression. Now, a lot of people think the Great Depression was the economy contracting and people jumping out windows on Wall Street. But Amity Shlaes, who is an FDR Depression expert, she\u2019s written a couple books about it, she posted an interesting stat on Twitter yesterday. I thought Twitter was down yesterday? Twitter must have come back up. <\/p>\n

Anyway, do you know what the annual GDP, the economic growth rate, was from 1933 to 1936? This will shock you. It stunned me. It averaged 9%. Economic growth during the Great Depression, 1933 to 1936, averaged 9%. Snerdley\u2019s saying, “How come they call it a depression?” That\u2019s to put this in context. That\u2019s the interesting thing here that\u2019s been discovered by Amity Shlaes and John Podhoretz. Now, Podhoretz says: “the most interesting analogy is to 1992 — a year in which the economy was actually staging a recovery from a recession in 1991.” And you remember 1992, Clinton, Carville, Stephanopoulos running around, “Worst economy in the last 50 years.” We were taking phone calls from people, “It can\u2019t get any worse, Rush. It can\u2019t get any worse.” It drove me crazy. But perceptions in politics are reality, and that\u2019s what people believed. <\/p>\n

<\/a>So listen to this. In 1992, a year in which the economy was actually staging a recovery from a recession in 1991. The annual growth rate in 1992, when the economy was so bad and everybody thought it was, that we had to throw Bush out, it was 3.4%. It came in in December. It came in after the election. The fourth quarter was through the roof after the election, and the annualized GDP rate for 1992 was 3.4%. The incumbent, George H. W. Bush, got 38% of the vote that year. Ross Perot got his share, and then Clinton won with 43%. Now, none of this is a guarantee of anything in the future. But Podhoretz points out here it all gets to the central problem for President Kardashian. What case can he make for a second term with undecided voters? <\/p>\n

We just got started yesterday, folks, in dumping this suburban strategery on him. Stanley Kurtz has figured it out. This is one thing Obama didn\u2019t want anybody to know. In fact, I think that one of the reasons they\u2019ve been so open — \u2019cause remember November 2011 when Thomas B. Edsall had that piece where they just admitted that they were gonna ignore white working-class voters? I said, why admit that? If you\u2019re gonna do it, do it, but why write a piece in the New York Times that spells out, yeah, white working-class voters, we\u2019re not interested in \u2019em; we\u2019re not gonna campaign for \u2019em. And then they\u2019re running ads now trying to suppress the votes from that group of people. I think one of the reasons why they might have gone public with that, because the real target here is suburban voters. I don\u2019t think Obama wants this out. <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think that the campaign of the regime is going to be happy with people identifying that what he\u2019s really trying to do is get back at suburbanites who have fled the cities, that those people are his real enemies, that those people are his real targets. Once that case starts being made, he doesn\u2019t have a… He can\u2019t run on his record, everybody knows it. All he can do is just try to scare people about Romney, that Romney would make it worse. So all of the historical signs point to no chance, if historical trends mean anything. Now, they don\u2019t. That\u2019s the thing. This kind of stuff is recorded so that someday, like a record in sports, it can be broken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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