{"id":288652,"date":"2018-10-16T16:09:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T20:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=288652"},"modified":"2018-10-17T16:09:27","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T20:09:27","slug":"the-ten-year-political-trend-doesnt-point-to-a-blue-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/10\/16\/the-ten-year-political-trend-doesnt-point-to-a-blue-wave\/","title":{"rendered":"The 10-Year Political Trend Doesn\u2019t Point to a Blue Wave"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: We\u2019ve been hearing for the past, how many months, that there\u2019s going to be a blue wave. There\u2019s no question about it. There has been no question about it. The Democrat Party is poised to retake everything they can in this next election. Why? Well, the media tells us the American people are fed up.<\/p>\n

After two years of Donald Trump, they realize the mistake they\u2019ve made, they wish they could do it over, maybe take back their vote for Trump, and this is gonna be the first chance they\u2019ve had to actually do that, and so the Democrats are gonna retake the House in a massive landslide, and, at one point, we\u2019re gonna take the Senate. But if you look at the reality of voting patterns just in the past eight years, let\u2019s say 10, there\u2019s nothing in the world, using common sense, that augurs for a Democrat sweep or blue wave.<\/p>\n

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The trend in the past 10 years is Democrats losing elections left and right. And it all started with Barack Hussein O and 2010. Do you remember how many times I reminded you that during the first six years of Obama, you go through the 2014 midterms, the Democrat Party lost over 1,200 seats nationwide, seats in the U.S. House, seats in the U.S. Senate, statehouses, governorships. You even go to local offices like mayor or town councilman.<\/p>\n

If you factor all of those races nationwide, the Democrats, after six years of Obama, had lost 1,200 seats. They were losing everything. After the 2016 election, they continued to laws even more, and the dead-set lock to win in a landslide Hillary Clinton got beat in a near electoral landslide, Electoral College landslide. Another election where they were gonna sweep big. They were gonna wipe out the Republican Party once and for all. Hillary Clinton was going to be this winner. They had it.<\/p>\n

They couldn\u2019t have had it any better. This guy Trump won the Republican nomination. Somebody didn\u2019t know what he was doing, a gigantic buffoon, a walking set of gaffes. They thought this guy would be easily swept away. They believed all their polling data. And we know what happened. They continued to lose to the point that after the 2016 elections, the Democrat Party had the least amount of power in terms of elected offices held in Washington, D.C. since the 1920s.<\/p>\n

Now, the 2016 election was only two years ago. So from 2010, the first chance people had to vote after having stomached two years of the Obama administration, which, you want to talk about people wanting to get their votes back? You want to talk about people wishing they could do it over? You want to talk about people wishing they hadn\u2019t voted the way they had? Go take a look at the 2010 midterms. Barack Obama single-handedly, my friends, has destroyed the electoral prowess of the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n

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Nobody knows it because the things I just told you are never reported. Instead, what people hear every day is this coming blue wave, this gigantic Democrat landslide. On what evidence is this gonna happen? What is it that has stopped the trend? The people in this country have been voting against Democrats in ways unprecedented. I mean, to have the fewest number of electoral seats since the 1920s is pretty astounding. It means a lot of people have been voting against you. So what is it that\u2019s happened that is going to cause this gigantic, 180-degree shift. Make people stop voting against Democrats and vote for them!<\/p>\n

Why, it\u2019s none other than Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

So says the media.<\/p>\n

So says the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n

Well, on the basis of what? If you take a look at Trump\u2019s agenda and the economy and policies and so forth, there\u2019s no reason to vote against it. In common sense, there\u2019s no reason… Trump hasn\u2019t done anything to worsen anybody\u2019s lives. Quite the contrary. And, in fact, there\u2019s a story from CNBC today that you\u2019re not gonna see widely reported. Let\u2019s see. I probably put… Yeah. “CNBC Survey: Soaring Economic Optimism Points to No Blue Wave in 2018.<\/a>” This is a CNBC poll or survey.<\/p>\n

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“America is experiencing a record-breaking era of good feelings, economically speaking. Optimism about the economy…” Do you know that there are seven million jobs open in America today? Actual number: 7,136,000 job openings in America. For context, the U.S. never had even six million vacant jobs open until April of 2017. Now we have an historic 7.1 million jobs open. That means employers are looking to hire that many people. That equals a roaring economy. That equals no problem getting a job if you want one.<\/p>\n

With that many job openings, it is an employee\u2019s market! If there\u2019s that much demand for employees, the employees can set the terms based on their level of expertise and experience at whatever it is they\u2019re applying for. None of this in the world of common sense suggests that people would be unhappy by it or about it and want to reject it. And yet that\u2019s exactly what we\u2019re being told, that the American people are sick and tired.<\/p>\n

They hate Trump. They tired of Trump. They\u2019re embarrassed by Trump. They\u2019re embarrassed by their vote. And yet there isn\u2019t a spittle-licking bit of evidence that people have turned around and want to vote Democrat, including the 2016 presidential election. For those of you shouting at me. (impression) “But wait, Rush. Don\u2019t fool yourself. Hillary won the popular vote by three.\u201d Yeah, but two things about that. Most of those votes came from California.<\/p>\n

The second thing is that we had a story yesterday that there are three and a half million registered voters above the number of bodies in America. In other words, there are three and a half million more registered voters than there are voters. Which means there\u2019s all kinds of fraud, potential fraud taking place. But even those two things, throw them out. It doesn\u2019t cancel the fact that the Democrats have been losing elections left and right.<\/p>\n

Now we have they couldn\u2019t stop Kavanaugh, every October Surprise that they\u2019ve tried to mount has blown up in their face, examine Elizabeth Warren is just the latest one. And this one is a giant self-immolation. She\u2019s making an abject fool of herself.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m thinking… And I\u2019m gonna expand on this, of course. But I\u2019m thinking nothing has changed since Barack Obama ruined the Democrat Party. Barack Obama is the reason that they lost 1,200 seats nationwide. There hasn\u2019t been anything to change that. They lost the Supreme Court. They lost Kavanaugh. They did everything they could. He this mounted an October Surprise.<\/p>\n

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They tried to destroy the life, the career, the past, the future of Brett Kavanaugh to save the court. Nothing is going their way. They\u2019re not winning. Meanwhile, what\u2019s happening on the Republican side? Many of you may hate hearing it, some of you Never Trumpers. But the fact of the matter is the Republican Party is unifying. And what made that happen? The Democrats\u2019 attempt on Kavanaugh.<\/p>\n