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RUSH: Basking Ridge, New Jersey. Peter, you\u2019re up first. It\u2019s great to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush. How are you?<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: I\u2019m honored to be your first caller today.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s a big responsibility. It sets the tone.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, I know, I know, I know. Listen, I have to put you on the spot. You keep saying, on practically a daily basis, that if the election were held today, Obama loses in a landslide. Well, to WHOM?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Whoever runs.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, yeah? Uh, Ron Paul beats President Obama in a landslide?<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Well…<\/p>\n

CALLER: Huntsman beats Obama in a landslide today?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Huntsman might, but you want to stick to the list of potential nominees?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, we know that Huntsman\u2019s not gonna be the nominee and Ron Paul\u2019s not gonna be the nominee. You know, I\u2019m using a rhetorical device. I am trying to illustrate that this is not a lock. I know there are people out there thinking this guy can\u2019t be beat, and there are people on our side who are thinking, “This guy is not gonna be easy, Rush. You\u2019re overstating it here. I mean, he\u2019s got a billion dollars!” My point in saying this is that the people of this country want a change badly. They are not happy with this. There is nowhere near a majority of people who want any more of this, but it\u2019s never reported. I really believe that the majority of people in this country, if they had a chance to get rid of this administration, would do it. That is my point.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But they wouldn\u2019t do it just, you know, with anyone. I mean, if somehow Ron Paul was a nominee? I mean, he\u2019s way, way down there compared to Obama. You know, I point to every major poll and —<\/p>\n

RUSH: You don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — matchups, Obama would win in a landslide.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, but Ron Paul\u2019s not gonna be the nominee.<\/p>\n

CALLER: So you\u2019re just saying of the most likely nominee, like Romney or Newt<\/a>, or whatever?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. Sarah Palin, you name it. Romney<\/a>, Newt, Santorum. Bachmann would have, I think.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay. So you\u2019re saying Romney<\/a>, Newt, Santorum would all beat Obama in a landslide today?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.I think the real meaning here is that Obama can be beat! Obama could be defeated. He\u2019s not invincible, and it\u2019s not automatic he\u2019s gonna be reelected and the point is that the vast majority of people in this country don\u2019t want four more years of this.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Right, but they have to think, “What\u2019s the alternative?” You know —<\/p>\n

RUSH: The 2010 elections show us the alternative. The alternative is the Republican Party. The people that abandoned the Democrats in 2010 weren\u2019t voting for a guy. They were voting against a guy. They were voting against a party. That 2010 election was a massive landslide victory. All the way down to dogcatcher on the ballot, that was big.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, it\u2019s a shame that people have to vote against one party and not for a candidate or for a party.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, naturally I would prefer that there be a “for” vote, because that\u2019s how you get a mandate. Of course I would prefer that, and that will be the case by the time we get there. By the time there is a nominee and the circumstances exist and the contrasts are drawn, there will be that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, hopefully.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And I think people instinctively understand it already. They know that they don\u2019t want this. They now know what liberalism is; they know what Marxism is. They don\u2019t want it! They don\u2019t want the health care bill. Sixty-five percent, 58%, pick your poll, don\u2019t want the health care bill. Now, you disagree with me, obviously.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019ve seen polls. I look at, you know, all the major polls out there, Rasmussen. You know, I track the daily polls, particularly Rasmussen almost every day, and actually in the latest poll — for whatever it might mean to you — Romney trails Obama by about three points.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I didn\u2019t see that poll. I saw a poll that says Romney beats him by three points on Fox this morning.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That was I think about… Yeah, I — I think I — I — I saw that. That was Fox. Rasmussen I know only polls likely voters.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you should know, \u2019cause you\u2019re a regular listener. You should know I couldn\u2019t care less what a presidential poll today says.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You know, victory, it\u2019s tie at best.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Victory is a tie at best? In the poll? Yeah. As I\u2019m saying, I don\u2019t care about a poll of an event in November today, I don\u2019t care about it. I\u2019m using my instincts here. I\u2019m not arguing with polls. I\u2019m not telling you I disagree with the polls. I\u2019m saying don\u2019t pay any attention to him. That\u2019s not how I roll. I have empathy. I have gut instinct about things. Polling data for me is… (sigh) It\u2019s like, “Investing in hope is the recipe for not doing anything.” Relying on polls means you don\u2019t have to think, means you don\u2019t have to take a risk. “The polls say this, the polls say that,” so that dictates everything else you do. Sorry, not me.<\/p>\n

CALLER: So this is coming from your own gut?<\/p>\n

RUSH: You mean if there is a poll out there right now, and you\u2019ve told me there is, that says Romney loses to Obama, “Well, then, let\u2019s quit. Let\u2019s pack it in! The poll says…” I don\u2019t do that. This is why I\u2019m not in politics, I guess, but I don\u2019t use polls. In fact, I think polls are used to make news. I think polls are part and parcel of the “news-making,” quote, unquote, process. But I get your point, I get it. You think I\u2019m wrong. You think that I\u2019m not living in the world of reality. You think I\u2019ve moved out of Literalville and into Fantasyland, and you think that I\u2019m existing entirely on hope and prayer — wing and a prayer, whatever — and I am so devoid of reality that if I keep this up, people are going to have false confidence and I\u2019m gonna be responsible for Obama winning. You think I totally moved out of Realville — and I\u2019m telling you that I don\u2019t think the polls are reality, pure and simple. Let\u2019s take a poll on who\u2019s gonna win, Tebow or Brady tomorrow night — and then when the poll is over, let\u2019s not play the game. The poll said, and it\u2019s the fans — and the fans are sacrosanct! Whatever they say, that\u2019s the way it\u2019s gonna be, right? Same thing in a poll.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s just forget it and not even play the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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