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RUSH: Now, Snerdley asked me a moment ago — (interruption) yeah, he had crossover votes, yeah, he had Democrat votes, that\u2019s what I mean, he had crossover votes. He had Democrats willing to vote with him. It was bipartisan. It was everything everybody claims to have wanted, everything everybody thought Obama was going to bring. And Democrats say, no mas, no mas, we\u2019re outta here, gotta go home, campaign, prepare for defeat. Snerdley, asked me, ‘Rush, we are 30-some-odd days away from this election, the polling data does not look good for the Democrats. Why is he out in Albuquerque talking about all this?\u2019 <\/p>\n

I think one of the reasons is so that we would talk about it instead of the terror threat, instead of the vote, instead of Obama\u2019s economic policies. I think diversion. And, see, we can do it all here. We never get diverted. We never get sidetracked. I got three hours here. If Obama wants his religion discussed we\u2019ll be happy to oblige. When we finish that we\u2019ll go back to shellacking his economic policies. We don\u2019t get diverted here. By the way, I have to tell you something. Folks, as you know, I really am alarmed and resent the kind of crisis, emergency, we\u2019re-all-gonna-die tomorrow mentality that has been established by the Democrats and the media in this country. Do you remember last week I told you how frustrated I was, I was hearing from all these people that said, ‘Rush, there\u2019s a hurricane, it\u2019s a dead hit, Miami, Palm Beach. It\u2019s the GFS model.\u2019 And I said, ‘I\u2019m looking at all the models and I don\u2019t see one model showing anything hitting south Florida.\u2019 ‘Well, it\u2019s there, it\u2019s there.\u2019 <\/p>\n

So nothing happened, and then over the weekend I start hearing rumblings about a massive, massive rain event for south Florida that could destroy the south Florida state, six, eight, 12 inches of rain, mass flooding, vermin patrolling the streets, rising up from inside the weeds, worms in your house, snakes in your basement, alligators coming out of the lagoons and into your backyard. You know that the hurricane center and the media, they\u2019re so ticked off there hasn\u2019t been a hurricane. All those forecasts, Bill Gray and all these guys, it was going to be a horrible hurricane season this year, remember that? I mean even poor old Joe Bastardi at AccuWeather, who I love, said it\u2019s south Florida, you might even want to move, all these conditions, it\u2019s bad out there. Now, Bastardi is not one of these guys that\u2019s hoping for disaster, but I mean we live in this culture where everything\u2019s a crisis, everything. A hangnail could mean that a plague has returned. So we in south Florida have been living under a threat, warnings of a devastating rain event. The local media from Miami all the way up here has broomed everything to talk about the dangers, warnings, you know, go get the batteries, go get the bread, get the milk, be prepared to evacuate. <\/p>\n

You think a hurricane is coming and it was just a bunch of clouds with rain in them. So the warnings went up and everybody was hunkering down. And it did rain somewhat hard yesterday. I thought it was kind of cool. You know, I like stormy weather. It\u2019s kinda cozy, the rain beating against the windows. It was nothing. It was an average, ordinary thunder boomer. There was some lightning out there. And all this had been predicted to be disastrous. And we\u2019re all looking at the hurricane forecast every three hours, the updates, the cone, five-day cone, the three-day cone, where\u2019s the center of circulation? You look at the satellite and you can\u2019t find the center of circulation. What is a tropical storm, number 16, they name it Nicole. Where the hell\u2019s the center of circulation? Can\u2019t find it. All you can find is a bunch of squalls; all you can find is a bunch of rain. There\u2019s no center of circulation, there\u2019s no tropical storm, there\u2019s no winds, nothing. And finally at 11 o\u2019clock they say no mas, never mind. All the warnings have been dropped in south Florida. We basically had a bunch of sprinkles.<\/p>\n

And now they\u2019re warning the Bahamas. You know, it\u2019s gonna get to the point when something big does come along people are not going to evacuate because they\u2019ve been told all these false alarms and it never happens. This constant crying wolf is what helped cause the problems with Katrina. We\u2019ve been hearing about all these disasters, and Katrina comes along, and even School Bus Nagin says, (paraphrasing) ‘Head to the Superdome, everything will be fine. I\u2019m not gonna get the buses out there, what the hell.\u2019 And in fact it wasn\u2019t the hurricane that did \u2019em in down there. It was the levees that failed after the hurricane had pulled out, we all know the story of that. But I always have resented the crisis mentality, I don\u2019t care if it is global warming or the polar bears or what have you. It\u2019s absurd we\u2019re all gonna die tomorrow if nature takes place. So the tie in here, Snerdley says, ‘Why is Obama talking about all this religion stuff, he\u2019s a Christian, and getting it wrong?\u2019 Well, it looks bad for Obama in the election coming up, looks bad for the Democrats. <\/p>\n

Yesterday, Public Policy Polling, Democrat firm, North Carolina, they put out this little thing called ‘Summing it All Up.\u2019 Tom Jensen wrote: ‘Last week someone asked me what poll data I would use to sum up what\u2019s happening in this election in the simplest terms possible. Here it is: On our last national poll 49% of respondents said the economy had gotten worse since Barack Obama became President.\u2019 This is a Democrat poll, now. Forty-nine percent of respondents said the economy had gotten worse since Obama was immaculated. ‘The folks who thought the economy had gotten worse who had already decided how to vote in November are going Republican by a 92-8 margin.\u2019 A margin of 92-8. ‘If voters think the economy\u2019s gotten worse under a Democratic President they\u2019re going to vote Republican. Add in the Democrats\u2019 enthusiasm issues and you have the formula for the big GOP victory that\u2019s likely on the way.\u2019 <\/p>\n

And then I said wait a minute, wait a second, because in the last couple of days there have been some polls that say Democrats are showing some strength here. Wait, stick with me on this. If you look at those samples, you find — and these are respectable polling units — all of a sudden Democrats are showing more enthusiasm, out of the blue, coinciding with Obama\u2019s public appearances. All of a sudden now the polls are telling us, Obama, he\u2019s getting out there and now all of a sudden the Democrats, the enthusiasm gap is narrowing. Who\u2019s telling us this? When you look at the samples of those polls that show the Democrats rebounding, one of them, the sample was 55% Democrat, 35% Republican, and 15% uncommitted. Well, I\u2019m sorry, that\u2019s a flawed sample. But, my friends, I do have a note of caution. When I say who\u2019s telling us, 92-8, Republican margin, what is it that makes us think this is going to be a massive Republican victory? Is it not State-Controlled Media polling? We all know they make things up whenever they wish. The assumption has been it\u2019s so bad they can\u2019t fudge this. I mean this is so bad for the Democrats they can\u2019t fudge this. But maybe it\u2019s not as bad for the Democrats as they have led everybody to believe. Maybe their Democrats, their own polling shows the Democrats are going to do better than anybody thinks and after that happens the news after the election will be what a comeback! Obama on the campaign trail rebounding people, the Democrats are back, everybody thought the Republicans are gonna sweep.<\/p>\n

The reason I mention this is, even though that sounds like a long shot, remember who we\u2019re talking about. We\u2019re talking about State-Controlled Media and their polls for the most part. Now, Rasmussen and others confirm it looks bad for the Democrats. Don\u2019t let this make you so confident that it curtails your enthusiasm. Don\u2019t think you don\u2019t have to show up because so many other people are. Particularly in states like Delaware and in Colorado, in Nevada, in New York, governorship, this is no time to think it\u2019s over. Because, folks, no matter what happens with this election, even if this is this huge clean sweep, this is just the first of many of these that are going to be required to slow this ship and eventually turn it around. Obama\u2019s out doing the backyard campaign, public appearances because the polls say he\u2019s still personally likable, so they\u2019re playing on that. They\u2019re putting him in settings where his personal likability is supposed to manifest itself into something positive. <\/p>\n

Richard Trumka, the communist who runs the, what is it, the AFL-CIO now, used to be the miners? You know, I saw a story reporting on what Trumka had said, and I read it, and said I do not understand, different planet, you know Mars, Venus. The guy is dead serious. He said the reason Americans are angry is because they\u2019ve been lied to by Fox News and Sarah Palin. To me that\u2019s insane. But I\u2019m sure Trumka believes it. And if he doesn\u2019t believe it, he\u2019s trying to make everybody else believe it. And they talk about a tipping point. Well, we are the tipping. There is no tipping point if we don\u2019t tip on Election Day. Now, most of these polls have been oversampling Democrats, between 12 and 15%, and they still show the Democrats getting shellacked. It could well be that what\u2019s really happening here is a landslide of biblical propositions. It could well be that the Republicans are gonna get 70 seats in the House. They were shocked and stunned in \u201994 and they\u2019re saying that can\u2019t happen again because they\u2019re aware of it now, \u201994 was a big surprise. I think this can be as big a shock. Look, they\u2019re having to send Democrats in to campaign for Barney Frank. They\u2019re having to spend money on sure bets like Barney Frank. <\/p>\n

The Democrat governor running for Robert Byrd\u2019s seat in West Virginia is losing. Russ Feingold is behind by eight points in Wisconsin. By the way, Feingold relented and did show up, he did show up at the Obama rally for Feingold. Remember we had yesterday Feingold wasn\u2019t going to show up, and everybody said, ‘Well, that\u2019s no big deal, it doesn\u2019t mean that he\u2019s in trouble, it doesn\u2019t mean there\u2019s a rift. It\u2019s perfectly understandable that Obama would go in for Feingold and he wouldn\u2019t show up at his own event.\u2019 That\u2019s what they told us. I\u2019m convinced that Feingold showed up because we made such a big deal out of it on this program and shamed him. In Connecticut, Linda McMahon, world wrestling, she\u2019s way, way down to that obvious weirdo, Blumenthal. I mean this guy doesn\u2019t look like he eats. He looks like a cadaver. He looks like he was buried three years ago. He talks weird. He was supposed to be a slam-dunk, that\u2019s now a toss-up state. West Virginia is close, the Byrd seat. The Democrat governor there is trailing the Republican. Angle is gonna beat Dingy Harry. That\u2019s not as close as they\u2019re saying, because they\u2019re jimmying the polls out there. Paladino, don\u2019t be shocked at the governor\u2019s race in New York. Don\u2019t be shocked at this. I mean it would be shocking, but at any rate, I think one of the reasons Obama\u2019s out there doing all this Christian talk is to try to distract people from how bad it is. <\/p>\n

Boxer\u2019s in trouble. Patty Murray, the mom in tennis shoes, Patty Murray\u2019s in trouble in state of the Washington. The San Francisco Chronicle wouldn\u2019t endorse anybody. Can\u2019t go for Carly Fiorina, but certainly can\u2019t go for Barbara Boxer. It\u2019s going to be fascinating to see here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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