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RUSH: Now, by the way, just in from the Wall Street Journal. The NBC\/Wall Street Journal poll<\/a> just released: “Hillary Clinton\u2019s national lead over Bernie Sanders has sharply eroded.” The way the Journal\u2019s blurb reads is: “Senator Bernie Sanders has all but eliminated Hillary Clinton\u2019s lead among Democrat primary voters nationwide as her standing has eroded under fire from her primary opponent and Republican rivals [i.e., Crooked Hillary] according to what a new Wall Street\/NBC News poll has found.” <\/p>\n

Bernie Sanders, for the first time, is close to tying Hillary Clinton. Here are the numbers: 48% Bernie, 50% Hillary. In last month\u2019s poll, Hillary was ahead by nine. Her lead was 53-44. Her nine-point lead is down to a two-point lead, which is a margin-of-error lead. Again, it\u2019s a national poll. This is another instance in the Democrat primary that was not supposed to happen. Bernie was never supposed to get this close. Nowhere near this close. Hillary was not to even still be in a perceived contest by this time.<\/p>\n

According to the original schematic of this campaign, the way they drew it up, Bernie was to have been long gone by now, after having presented a valiant effort. But he was to have been vanquished weeks ago. So now there will be panic and upset. And you can see Bill Clinton starting to fall apart with this stuff, starting to blame people, starting to blame Millennials. He\u2019s starting to blame people for the way they\u2019re thinking and the way they\u2019re planning on voting. This wasn\u2019t supposed to be. <\/p>\n

To the phones we return. Alex in Payson, Illinois. Great to have you. I am glad you waited. Welcome to the program. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Madam Secretary pole dancer dittos, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, sir. Great to have you with us.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I have a question I\u2019d like to ask you and maybe put you on the spot a little bit if you\u2019re willing to make a projection. Everybody\u2019s going through a lot of hand-wringing about who is gonna be affected most by their voters staying home. So my question is, do you think Hillary\u2019s voters — will there be people staying home from the Democratic side more so than the Republican side? In other words, who will it affect the most?<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Interesting question. I haven\u2019t seen any polling data on Hillary\u2019s voters. We\u2019ve seen a number of polls that suggest that 25% of Bernie\u2019s voters will not vote for her. They\u2019ll stay home and not vote, period. Twenty-five percent of Bernie\u2019s. I haven\u2019t seen any numbers on how many of Hillary\u2019s voters will not vote if she doesn\u2019t get the nomination. Her voters, you would have to assume that Hillary\u2019s voters, the vast majority of them are party elites or people who think they\u2019re party elites. They don\u2019t think of themselves as radical outsiders. They are the Democrat Party establishment. So you would think, therefore, they would be loyal to the party, because, believe me, what animates them is opposition to us. They are more oriented and motivated to see us defeated than anything else that challenges them.<\/p>\n

CALLER: How about comparing them to Republicans that are staying home? That was really my question. Will it hurt the Democrats more than it hurts the Republicans to stay home and not vote?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let\u2019s make up a race here. Give me the two candidates that you\u2019re thinking of. Are you thinking Hillary versus Trump?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well — yeah, I think, you know, Trump, slash, Cruz. I mean, you could handicap \u2019em separately if you\u2019d like, but Hillary against one of the two main Republicans, I guess.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, really, go with polling data. So Hillary\u2019d be down by 25% of Bernie Sanders votes, which is half the party, it seems now, according to polling data. So she\u2019d be down 25, if they\u2019re being honest and they actually don\u2019t show up. If Trump is the nominee — you know, I really don\u2019t know. The party establishment has people being quoted as saying that they would vote for Hillary rather than vote for Trump, and some of them are even saying that about Cruz. <\/p>\n

Well, it\u2019s a good question. Who gets hurt most, or who gets hurt the more by virtue of being nominated. It\u2019s really a question of how many Republicans stay home versus how many Democrats stay home. And I don\u2019t know. I have to think that the stay-home vote will always hurt the Republicans more. That\u2019s my impression. But again the dynamics on the Democrat side are different than we\u2019ve ever seen them. <\/line><\/p>\n

This bunch of Sanders voters, I believe these people when they say they won\u2019t show up if Bern\u2019s not the nominee. By the way, they\u2019re not saying that. They\u2019re saying they won\u2019t show up if Hillary is. The Trump people are saying they won\u2019t show up if Trump is denied. The Bernie people are not saying they won\u2019t show up if better than Bern is denied. They won\u2019t show up if Hillary is the nominee. You might say they\u2019re one and the same. But I think not showing up if Hillary is the nominee is much broader and encompasses many more people, than if they\u2019re saying, “I won\u2019t show up if Bernie\u2019s the nominee.” <\/p>\n

So Hillary is the lightning rod on the Democrat side. I think it\u2019s all bogus. I think it\u2019s gonna be one of the biggest turnout elections we\u2019ve ever had. I think stay-at-homes are widely overestimated. It is just a bunch of people threatening things right now. Some of them will, but just like the Democrat turnout right now, even with all this enthusiasm for Bernie, there isn\u2019t any manifestation of large turnout as part of this. All of that\u2019s on the Republican side. And they could kill it. They could kill all this excitement by making the wrong steps at strategic points yet to happen.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: And, by the way, folks, when you start talking about Democrats staying home, that doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019re not gonna vote. Remember who we\u2019re talking about here. Dead Democrats vote. And they\u2019re not at home. So just because Democrats say they\u2019re gonna stay at home does not by any means mean that they are not going to vote. <\/p>\n

Now, the latest polls say that not so many people will stay home if Trump is the nominee. That number is shifting. You know, it used to be a big number of people saying if Trump\u2019s the nominee they\u2019re staying home. The number is going down now. I forget the poll, but we had it last week. But the number of people I think in that poll who say that they will refuse to vote for Trump is supposed to be the same number as those who say they will never vote for Cruz or for Kasich. <\/p>\n

You know, I played golf yesterday and at lunch beforehand a couple people came up — I\u2019m just sharing with you what people think. They don\u2019t care about this stuff. They think Kasich, they think everything is being wired for Kasich to be the nominee. The problem was they\u2019re looking forward to it, these two that I talked to. So I\u2019m, “Oh, jeez, don\u2019t ruin my golf game.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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