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<\/p>\nRUSH: Herb in Philadelphia. Great to have you, sir. You\u2019re next on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hello, Rush. It\u2019s such a pleasure to talk to you on such a big, exciting political day.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Thank you. Yes. So, anyway, you have made the case that the polls were inaccurate four years ago, and my concern is that the inaccurate polls are actually dangerous. And the reason why I say that is, I think it messes with people\u2019s expectations. And I think it could lead to more civil unrest this time around. Last time we saw women on their knees staring up at the sky crying, and we saw them marching around with funny hats on their heads —<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Oh, you\u2019re talking about those vagina hats except they didn\u2019t call \u2019em “vagina hats,” they called \u2019em the “pussai” hats. Yeah, I remember that. That was embarrassing. That was —<\/p>\n
CALLER: I think that was because they felt it was stolen from them. They were guaranteed a win — I think the odds were that Trump had a 3% chance of winning — and I think the same thing\u2019s happening again. Their expectations are being set that they\u2019re going to win, and nothing could be further from the truth. According to what I see, I see these beautiful boat parades that I\u2019ve never seen before, and they\u2019re just incredible.<\/p>\n
I see all kinds of things. The rallies are huge, even though there\u2019s a pandemic going on. I just feel as though, at this time in our history, I have to worry about civil unrest. I worry about rioting and things like that. And I think about, you know, how people have taken off on November 4th because they\u2019re afraid that there might be rioting in the city. You know, and it\u2019s just crazy that we\u2019re thinking like this.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any question about this. I mean, even Hillary Clinton believed the polls, and that\u2019s why she didn\u2019t campaign anywhere. She didn\u2019t think she had to. Hillary Clinton and her entire campaign believed the polls, and then they believed Nate Silver\u2019s analysis of the polls. You say that you recall that everybody was saying Trump has maybe a 3% chance of winning, maybe 5%.<\/p>\n
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Well, you\u2019re right. Hillary Clinton believed her polling data. The Democrat Party at large believed all of that, and so did Democrat voters. It\u2019s one of the reasons why this silly, stupid, nonsensical, so-called story that Trump stole the election in cahoots with Russia was believed by these Looney Tunes, is because they believed their polling data — and they are doing it again.<\/p>\n
Except this time, the polling data is even more affirmative for Biden. They\u2019ve got Biden almost a deadlock to win this. It\u2019s not even close. It\u2019s like Biden has like now a 77% or 80% chance of winning, and it may even be higher than that. And then there was… What was it? Something else. Oh, it\u2019s something about the coverage that Biden is getting is even softer than the coverage Hillary got in 2016.<\/p>\n
I made the point yesterday, folks, that it is stunning how similar this is all turning out to be to 2016. It really is. There are so many things that seem to be repeating themselves, such as the polls, such as Biden isn\u2019t campaigning anywhere. Now, that\u2019s probably because he can\u2019t. They did send his wife, Jill Biden, out. Boy, did she lose it with Jake Tapper<\/a>. Jake Tapper said, “It\u2019s well established that her husband committed some gaffes,” and she (angrily), “There are no gaffes! You can\u2019t even go there! You can\u2019t go there! Not with Trump out there. No way! You can\u2019t even go there, can\u2019t go there. No gaffes, no such thing, not with Trump out there.” That\u2019s what led me to believe that what Biden is gonna do…<\/p>\n If this thing happens tonight, every question he gets, he\u2019s gonna turn it into an opportunity to bash Trump over something, and I do think he\u2019s going to go down the road of saying, “You know what? I don\u2019t think this debate should be happening, \u2019cause even though this guy\u2019s president, I don\u2019t think he deserves to be on this stage after having cheated with the Russians.”<\/p>\n Biden\u2019s still out there saying this. Remember, he can say whatever he wants, and there\u2019s going to be a sympathy factor. The sympathy factor is built in. “Poor Joe. He might be having some brain problems, you know? So we gotta be very careful how we come off. We can\u2019t really…” I\u2019m not talking about Trump. I\u2019m talking about the debate moderator here.<\/p>\n It would only be common sense that if the news is out there that this guy is somehow mentally incapacitated, “Why, we can\u2019t just ignore that. We can\u2019t pretend that this guy\u2019s all there. We have to make some kind of adjustment,” and I think the Biden campaign\u2019s playing this up and milking this for all it is worth. I\u2019m not saying that he\u2019s faking any of this. Don\u2019t misunderstand.<\/p>\n I appreciate the call, Herb. You\u2019re right about polls creating these expectations. They did four years ago — and I\u2019ll guarantee you, the people on the Democrat side think that Biden is a lock now. But, see, here again, you can\u2019t find any evidence of enthusiasm for Biden because Biden doesn\u2019t go anywhere for that enthusiasm to be demonstrated. He doesn\u2019t do campaign appearances.<\/p>\n The fact that there\u2019s a D next to his name is worth X-number of votes in terms of a percentage of the electorate, and the fact that they believe that everybody hates Trump. So he\u2019s not Trump, and he\u2019s a Democrat nominee, and that is worth victory. But they are discounting all of the obvious enthusiasm there is for Trump, and that enthusiasm is going to lead to turnout. It\u2019s gonna lead to votes. I think they\u2019re misjudging this almost exactly in the same ways they misjudged 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" RUSH: It is stunning how similar this is all turning out to be to 2016. It really is. There are so many things that seem to be repeating themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":294741,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/APP-092820-CNN-Jill-Biden-x.jpg\")
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But even if he were, folks, everybody knows there\u2019s no way he can draw a crowd of over 200 people. Just can\u2019t happen. There isn\u2019t… He does not have a base. He does not have a connection with other people. He just doesn\u2019t have a personal bond — it just isn\u2019t there — and neither does Kamala Harris. What they are relying on is two things:<\/p>\n