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RUSH: Interesting little poll here from The Politico. Well, actually it\u2019s a story, but it\u2019s a poll from James Carville and Stan Greenberg by their company Democracy Corps. I wonder why they put this out? You ready for this? Wait for it. ‘Racism is not a factor driving conservative opposition to President Barack Obama, according to the results of focus groups conducted by Democracy Corps, a Democratic organization, released on Friday. Nevertheless, members of the conservative base of the GOP said they believe the president is pursuing a ‘secret agenda\u2019 designed to push the country toward socialism.\u2019<\/p>\n

<\/a>What\u2019s secret about it? Nobody thinks it\u2019s secret. It\u2019s right out in the open. The only thing secret is how some people refuse to see what\u2019s right in front of their face. ”This is a pretty dominant view in the Republican Party,\u2019 said Democratic strategist James Carville, who worked on the report. Rather than attributing their dislike of Obama to race, participants in the focus groups, which were a project of Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, said that their disaffection was borne out of a sense that the president was orchestrating an effort to steer the country away from its ‘founding principles.\u2019 ‘They want him to fail,\u2019 said pollster Stan Greenberg. ‘It\u2019s not just a political motivation, it\u2019s an ethical imperative given what they think Obama\u2019s goals are.” This is October 19th. It took them nine months to figure this out. Took them nine months to figure out that ‘I want him to fail\u2019 is not political. It\u2019s an ethical imperative given what they know Obama\u2019s goals are. So now a Democrat group, Carville and Greenberg, have gone out there and they\u2019ve talked to Republicans in focus groups and conservatives, ‘Guess what out there? Eat my gumbo! It\u2019s not racism!\u2019 It\u2019s not racism. And it\u2019s not political. It\u2019s an ethical imperative given what they think Obama\u2019s goals are. <\/p>\n

‘The research team held focus groups from Sept. 29-30 with conservative voters in suburban Atlanta and another set of meetings with conservative-leaning independents in the Cleveland area. The Atlanta groups consisted of older white, self-identified conservatives who voted for both John McCain and a Republican Congressional candidate. The Cleveland groups included older white swing voters — half of whom voted for Obama and half of whom supported McCain in 2008. In the two places, researchers found vastly different results. Whether or not they voted for Obama, the independent voters said they wanted to see the president succeed and were not concerned that he was championing so-called socialist policies. ‘On virtually every point of discussion around President Obama and the major issues facing our country, these two audiences simply saw the world in fundamentally different ways — underscoring the extreme disconnect of the conservative Republican base voters,\u2019 the report\u2019s authors wrote.\u2019<\/p>\n

Now, look at this. They think they\u2019re putting out a positive here for Obama. ‘Independent voters said they wanted to see the president succeed and were not concerned that he was championing so-called socialist policies.\u2019 Independents are who are fleeing Obama in droves. The conservatives were never with him. Independents are the reason his poll numbers are dropping in approval, in health care support, cap and trade, whatever it is, it\u2019s independents who are fleeing him. But they want to try to portray independents here as moderates. Well, they just want everybody to get along, ah, the moderates want him to succeed, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It\u2019s just fascinating. One conservative focus group participant said — they quote him in this Greenberg and Carville poll — ‘When Republicans try to be like Democrat-lite, they\u2019re not going to convert any Democrats to them and they\u2019re just going to lose conservatives.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Well, damn. Carville has found out what I have been saying for years. It\u2019s all right here in his own little poll. Opposition to Obama is not racist, it is said to be racist. We don\u2019t oppose Obama because he\u2019s black, because he\u2019s ruining the country is why we oppose him. We don\u2019t have time to worry about race here. We\u2019re concerned about ideas. The poll also found out we don\u2019t trust the media and also found out we want the Republican Party to be conservative. It sounds like any given hour of my show for the last year. Carville and Greenberg could have saved their money and just listened to an hour of this program at any point in the last year and they wouldn\u2019t have had to go out and do focus groups on anybody. They would have known what the truth is. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: You know, I wonder if Carville and Greenberg\u2019s poll research show that racism is behind opposition to conservatives. James, why don\u2019t you and Stan go out and poll some Democrats? Find out where the racism in America really is, James, \u2019cause I\u2019ll tell you: You know, all of you people… Here\u2019s our Media Tweak of the Day, by the way. As you know we do media tweak, we know exactly what to say to jack \u2019em up and get \u2019em on the hysterical roll again. It\u2019s not the color of Obama\u2019s skin that attracts, opposes or causes us any trouble whatsoever. It\u2019s not the color of his skin. It\u2019s the color of his policies. In other words, it\u2019s not his blackness; it is his redness that we oppose. Deficit is one place. You\u2019ll find red everywhere in the Obama agenda and the results of his policies. You\u2019ll find red ink; you\u2019ll find red policies. <\/p>\n

It is not his blackness. It is his redness that we oppose. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Let me go to Las Vegas real quick. Wendy, welcome to the program. Great to have you here.<\/p>\n

<\/a>CALLER: Oh, Rush, it\u2019s so wonderful to be here. I\u2019ve been listening to you since before your TV show. But I can tell you that 24\/7 subscription, I\u2019ve had that for two years, and I do not miss a show, not one. It\u2019s like I have a second full-time job here. If Carville — now he comes out with this brilliant analysis of why the right is so angry and reasons for protesting and all this. All he had to do was show up to one, just one of the events. I flew all the way to DC to be there on September 12th. There were so many people, and yeah, this is what we\u2019re afraid of. We don\u2019t want what this president is doing. It won\u2019t work.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What she is referring to — if you\u2019re just joining the show, one of the first stories of the day today, Stan Greenberg and James Carville — thanks very much, Wendy. It is frustrating. Greenberg and Carville do this poll. Democracy Corps is the name of their company. They\u2019ve done focus groups. You know what they found? They found that conservatives are not opposed to Obama because of his race. They do want him to fail, but that\u2019s not political. They want his policies to fail. They are afraid Obama is marching us to socialism. What Wendy here is simply repeating is what I said. All he would have to do is listen to one hour of this program in any of the past nine months or talk to any of the people in the tea parties. They didn\u2019t need to wait nine months and do one of these surveys. Now, they\u2019re out spinning this in a little bit different way from what I understand, the exact results because they\u2019re trying to say the independents here are really the ones, ‘The independents, oh, they want Obama to succeed and they\u2019re not worried about socialism at all.\u2019 So that\u2019s the part of the poll that they\u2019re highlighting. But it\u2019s nothing to do with race. As I said, it\u2019s not his blackness that we oppose. It\u2019s his redness, his ideas. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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