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Nate Silver Battles with Millennial HuffPo Nimrod<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

RUSH: Did you hear…? I think it was another Huffing and Puffington Post writer or some similar organization was watching the World Series and they tweeted that somebody was showing the KKK sign in the World Series.  (interruption) Mediaite.  Oh, that\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

It was a guy named Josh Feldman at Mediaite,<\/a> and he was outraged that the KKK was at the World Series and they were showing their sign and that nobody was mad about it!  Everybody was applauding, and he was beside himself. Somebody had to take him aside and say, “Hey, Josh, old buddy, old pal? You may want to go talk to the guys at the Harvard soccer team and get the lowdown of what is here because a strikeout in baseball is represented by a K.  And as a pitcher gets a strikeout, the fans put up another K — another sign with a K on it,” and at the time, the pitcher had three strikeouts.  So here were three Ks up there.<\/p>\n

He had no clue.  A guy had no clue about how baseball — the former and close to being national pastime — operates.  A product of the American educational system and clueless and not only clueless about that but sees three signs with Ks on them and what does he zero in on?  What does it mean to him? Ku Klux Klan!  How does that happen?  That\u2019s a result of teaching, education and conditioning, and Twitter just came down on this poor guy like the dufus that he apparently is about this.  <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: If you think Hillary Clinton has North Carolina all wrapped up, Hillary Clinton does not think that she has it all wrapped up.  Hillary Clinton is scheduled to be in Raleigh, North Carolina tonight at NC State University at midnight.  Midnight!  You don\u2019t do that if you think you\u2019ve got the state wrapped up.  Now, it\u2019s being reported as a toss-up, moving from leaning Democrat to toss-up, moving from leaning Republican to toss-up by these various news networks and so forth who are doing the deep, deep, deep analysis of all of their polling information.  We shall see. <\/p>\n

Now a lot of people follow Nate Silver.  I\u2019m not a bandwagon guy.  And as you know, I\u2019m not a conventional wisdom guy.  By definition, I mean, I don\u2019t have to try.  My natural instincts are to go against conventional wisdom.  Conventional wisdom is trend lines.  Conventional wisdom is what everybody else thinks.  It\u2019s the safe route.  If you sign up with what everybody else thinks, then you\u2019re cool.  And I never have.  I\u2019ve always, in that sense, been a bit of an — outsider is not the word for it.  Malcontent, maybe.  I never have been a go-with-the-crowd kind of guy. In fact, I don\u2019t like to go to events that I\u2019m not on the stage.  If I\u2019m not on the stage, I don\u2019t want to go.  I don\u2019t want to be part of the crowd.  That\u2019s just me. <\/p>\n

So I don\u2019t look at this the way all these people do with their polling data and thinking infallible.  And Nate Silver is, or was for a time, gospel for people on the left when he was at the New York Times.  He had his FiveThirtyEight blog.  And Nate Silver is who Democrats in need of therapy would seek out during the 2004 election.  I forget when it was.  But Nate Silver came to fame in whatever presidential election it was, he predicted all 50 states accurately.  Now, I don\u2019t know if that was 2012 or if it was \u201908 or maybe \u201904.  I don\u2019t think he goes back that far.  And ever since then he\u2019s been a Democrat guru. <\/p>\n

So when he comes up with data that does not follow along the conventional wisdom Democrat path, there are Democrats that literally need to pad their rooms.  And he\u2019s found himself in that exact circumstance because he has projected that Trump will win Florida.  He has projected that Trump\u2019s chances of winning the presidency are up from 11 percent to about 38 percent.  There is some millennial nimrod at the Huffing and Puffington Post who is writing about Nate Silver as though he doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s talking about. Nate Silver has responded, no, this guy at the Huffington Puffington Post is so full of it that you couldn\u2019t stuff anymore in it.  And people that follow it just get the biggest kick out of this intramural battle.  It\u2019s not some, “Hey, did you hear what Nate Silver said about the guy –” I would never.  That\u2019s just not me.  But a lot of people get jazzed by it.  Big deal, it\u2019s just another pollster. <\/p>\n

Not to besmirch Nate Silver, that\u2019s not what I\u2019m doing.  Polling is one of these things, I don\u2019t do it so I don\u2019t automatically just accept everything they say.  And never have.  And sometimes I\u2019ve been justified in doing it.  Other times I\u2019ve been wrong and they have been right.  At any rate, I just want to tell you what the latest Nate Silver is because it does affect what newsrooms publish and what other people who do follow this stuff think.<\/p>\n

The Daily Caller is reporting that Nate Silver is predicting Hillary one state away from losing the electoral college.  That\u2019s how tight it is now.  Now conventional wisdom has Hillary winning the electoral college vote.  Forget all these national polls.  They\u2019ve got Hillary on her pathway to 270, but she\u2019s one state away from not getting there.  One state away.  That makes them very nervous.  And then you couple that with Nate Silver projecting Trump to win Florida, and that is from yesterday.  So Sunday big news day. <\/p>\n

Nate Silver officially projected that Donald Trump will win Florida according to his analysis on Sunday, 52 percent chance of winning Florida.  Obama won Florida by less than a percentage point.  We\u2019ve already given you the early voting numbers which were dramatically in Trump\u2019s favor as compared to Romney.  And the actual Election Day vote in Florida has Trump plus 16 over Hillary. <\/p>\n

New York Times: “Hillary Clinton Appears to Gain Late Momentum on Surge of Latino Voters.” <\/a> Now, this little ditty has been picked up and has been repeated by everybody and we are to believe — we don\u2019t know where this information is gleaned, where they picked it up.  “Hispanic voters in key states surged to cast their ballots in the final days of early voting this weekend, a demonstration of political power that lifted Hillary Clinton\u2019s presidential hopes and threatened to block Donald J. Trump\u2019s path to the White House.”<\/p>\n

All we know when it comes to early voting is party identification of the early voters.  We don\u2019t know how they\u2019re voting unless people are opening the ballots and looking, and that would be illegal.  So we\u2019re going to assume that isn\u2019t happening.  (Coughing) And that all we have to go on is party ID.  So they\u2019re saying, “Well, Hispanics are obviously Democrats, for crying out loud.  Look at amnesty, the vast majority of Hispanic early voters have got to be for Hillary.”  And that\u2019s where the connection is being made.  <\/p>\n

What\u2019s Springsteen Going to Say with Hillary?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

RUSH: Polls are showing also the African-American vote for Donald Trump is double what Romney got, and Hillary\u2019s actually not performing with the African-American vote nearly as well. She\u2019s not getting the Obama turnout.  That\u2019s why Jay Z and Beyonc� are showing up half naked, singing all these raunchy songs, trying to get out the African-American vote in Cleveland and Philadelphia.  They\u2019ve got Springsteen going to Philadelphia.  What\u2019s Springsteen going to sing about? <\/p>\n

Bruce Springsteen, he\u2019s going to Philadelphia.  What\u2019s he going to say?  “Hey, dudes, Hillary will keep your parents\u2019 Obamacare insurance payments high.  She\u2019ll keep you in the parents\u2019 basement or sharing an apartment with four other roommates.  She\u2019ll protect the universities ripping you off.  She\u2019ll break laws and hold you accountable.”  What\u2019s he going to sing about? <\/p>\n

So this is what Hillary is having to do, is bring out the celeb star power.  She ought to ask Comey to show up on stage with her.  By the way, <\/p>\n

Rumor: Obama Will Fire Comey<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019ve heard rumblings, addressed this on Friday.  On Friday we had the story that what\u2019s her face, Valerie Jarrett, wanted Obama to fire Comey.  Somebody whispered into my ear before the program today that Obama is going to fire Comey.  Not before the election, which is tomorrow.  But that Comey is going to be fired.  What they\u2019re doing is working out the logistics, such as who\u2019s actually going to do it. <\/p>\n

Now, Bill Clinton fired Bill Sessions.  He was the FBI director back in, I think, Clinton\u2019s first term.  So it would be Obama.  But Obama may not be the guy to actually go out there and announce it.  But that is rumor that I don\u2019t mind passing on because you\u2019ve probably heard it even before I even got around to it.  <\/p>\n

Stock Market Way Up Because Hillary\u2019s Not Going to Jail<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

RUSH:  The stock market is way up today.  You know what they\u2019re saying is the reason why?  Do you believe that the stock market is up today?  What\u2019s it up?  Let\u2019s see, what\u2019s the number here?  It\u2019s up 100. That\u2019s the NASDAQ.  That\u2019s way up even for NASDAQ.  They\u2019re saying the market\u2019s up today because Comey announced that Hillary Clinton is not guilty, that she\u2019s been exonerated.  Now, excuse me, do they think we\u2019re that stupid?  They must!  Okay. <\/p>\n

So since Hillary was cleared — since they reviewed 650,000 e-mails in a matter of a week, eight days — then I guess we\u2019re now free and clear to invest even more in the stock market.  “Well, that\u2019s right, Mr. Limbaugh, because it means that Hillary is probably going to win and the establishment must prefer her there than Mr. Trump.”  That\u2019s the voice of the New Castrati.  I\u2019m sorry. You know, I invest in the stock market, and it didn\u2019t even occur to me, folks.  <\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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