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RUSH: I want to talk about the Christian Science Monitor here. <\/p>\n

“Why America Might Elect a President it Doesn\u2019t Like<\/a>,” as though that\u2019s going to happen. Here\u2019s what they say: “Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have among the highest unfavorability ratings of recent presidential candidates. Their success shows how US politics is changing.” The article says: “It is possible, perhaps even probable, that this fall\u2019s election will be contested between two of the three most disliked presidential candidates of at least the past quarter century. And it is possible, perhaps even probable, that this is not a coincidence.<\/p>\n

“A Gallup survey released Saturday shows that Donald Trump has the highest unfavorability rating (60%) of any presidential candidate since [Gallup] firm started tracking the figure in 1992.” That\u2019s how recent polling data has actually started tracking unfavorability. It\u2019s not something that\u2019s centuries old. The only dates back to 1992. According to Gallup, Trump comes in with the highest unfavorable number they have ever seen since they began surveying that. “For her part, Hillary Clinton ranks third (52%) with … George H.W. Bush of 1992 at No. 2.”<\/line><\/p>\n

So the most unfavorable right now is Trump, then H. W. Bush (who is not running, obviously) and Hillary Clinton in third place. “In other words, the 2016 presidential election could be decided between two people that the majority of Americans, according to Gallup, don\u2019t like politically.” Now, does that…? As you hear that stated, does that make any sense to you? How is somebody like Hillary Clinton with 52% unfavorability…? This is nationwide. This is not within parties. <\/p>\n

This is voting population at large. How does somebody win with those kinds of numbers…? But the conventional wisdom is that, “Hey, not only is it possible, it looks like it\u2019s pretty likely!” (sigh) I\u2019ve always been curious about unfavorable numbers, like and dislike number. Much as I have been curious about most poll results anyway. But those two numbers do stand out in a profound way. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: So a raft of e-mail reactions during the break. “Rush, Rush, you\u2019ve often talked about favorable and unfavorable, even yourself, Rush. You\u2019ve talked about how you couldn\u2019t survive without all the people listening to you who don\u2019t like you.”<\/p>\n

Yes. And I\u2019ve also — you may not believe this, folks, but over the course of the years many have suggested I run for office. I know that may come as a shock. And what have I always said? There\u2019s no way. I wouldn\u2019t stand a prayer at getting elected to anything. I\u2019m the guy that invented the word feminazi. I mean, all the stuff that\u2019s been collected that I\u2019ve said over the years, imagine the negative ads. And people said, “Yeah, yeah, yeah, but Rush you admit that you\u2019ve got so many people in your audience that hate you and they tune in every day to keep hating you.” Yeah, but getting an audience is different than getting votes. <\/p>\n

Getting an audience to a program like this and holding an audience is much different than getting votes. And then, on the other hand, high unfavorables are quite natural because everybody in politics is looked at as a suspect now just by virtue of the game. One of the reasons for it — and there are many valid reasons for it. Tucker Carlson writes about this today. I\u2019ve got it somewhere in my Stack here. It\u2019s a point that I have made frequently in the last several months specifically, but for much longer than that. <\/p>\n

The notion of how out of touch Washington is, the disconnect between Washington, DC, and the rest of the country, what I call the country, the people that make the country work. And it is this: If you\u2019re in Washington — everything in Washington\u2019s fine. The unemployment rate\u2019s 3%. The per capita income there is way above average. Construction\u2019s going on left and right. Nobody\u2019s in dire straits, not for very long. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s all kinds of money floating around Washington, DC. Everybody there knows everybody. You go walking down the street, you don\u2019t worry about crime except in a very small specific area of the actual city. Other than that, it\u2019s idyllic. And the people that live there absolutely love it, and more people are moving there constantly. <\/p>\n

If you look at the population of the Maryland and Virginia suburbs outside Washington, they\u2019re growing leaps and bounds. The corporations are putting satellite or even headquarter offices there. In other words, life in Washington has nothing in common with life in most of the rest of the country. Whatever the real estate prices are, you can afford them in Washington. You can either afford to rent, you can either afford to buy, whatever, and it\u2019s a nice place for the most part. It\u2019s totally unlike the rest of the country. And then you add all of the social pressures that exist there and the desire to climb the social ladder as well as the professional ladder, and you have a bunch of people who have no idea. <\/line><\/p>\n

That\u2019s where, by the way, you find the most avid support for amnesty, correct? Right in Washington, DC. People from both parties, donor class, elected officials, because it\u2019s not gonna affect them. All of the illegal immigration that\u2019s happened up \u2019til now, they don\u2019t live near it, they\u2019re not impacted by it. They\u2019re not impacted by the unemployment circumstance. They\u2019re not impacted at all by the lack of career opportunities because the people that end up in Washington happen to go through a training program that is nothing more than the Ivy League universities. They get plucked and they are thrust into the system where they get their training and so forth, and they grow up, and everything\u2019s fine. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s as fine in Washington today as it was in your little town, neighborhood, city, when you grew up 40, 50 years ago. But it\u2019s not like very much of the rest of the country. And so there\u2019s this huge disconnect. But the people in the rest of the country know full well that the people in Washington are out of touch, that there\u2019s this giant disconnect. So this idea that politicians, people that represent the political status quo would have high unfavorable numbers is totally understandable. And if you look at both parties, the Republican front-runner right now, Donald Trump, also has the highest unfavorables, the Democrat front-runner has the highest unfavorables. <\/p>\n

This is polling data. We haven\u2019t actually had a vote cast. That\u2019s why all of this stuff I\u2019m telling you, it\u2019s possible that the polling data is gonna right on the money and there aren\u2019t gonna be very many surprises. But I doubt that. I think it\u2019s just the opposite. And even if the polling data ends up being pretty right on, the fact that there are hard results after tonight is gonna change the dynamic of this in ways that months and months of polling cannot. I\u2019m just telling you so that you can be prepared for it. And you instinctively know this yourself. But the class differences, the economic differences that exist in Washington versus rest of the country are widely known, widely understood. <\/p>\n

My point is that this anger in Washington is entirely valid, and people have made jokes about Congress since Congress was formed. Will Rogers made a career out of making fun of Congress and elected officials. But in my lifetime I\u2019ve never seen it as intense. I\u2019ve never seen it as deep and as institutional as it is. The level of distrust, the number of people, the millions of people that are convinced the entire system is corrupt, they think their votes don\u2019t matter. You\u2019ve always had people who think that. It\u2019s record numbers now. <\/line><\/p>\n

And I think, you know, you get to the Des Moines Register poll, it\u2019s too many numbers here in this story. It\u2019s hard to follow numbers when you\u2019re listening to them, but the bottom line of one of the people now analyzing the Des Moines Register poll is that the projected turnout here is just way, way, way too high. And one of the things uncovered in the analysis is that there hasn\u2019t been a massive increase in brand-new party registration on either side in this contest, despite all this intensity out there. <\/p>\n

The media, because was the nature of their business and so forth, tends to make everything they\u2019re interested in the biggest and most important things in the country to everybody else. It\u2019s part of the arrogance and I think relative condescension, that the people in Washington, in the media, whatever they think is fascinating. They think everybody else is fascinated to the same degree, and whatever they think about things from issue to issue they think the majority of Americans agree, and I\u2019m telling you the disconnect is such that that isn\u2019t the case. <\/p>\n

I just think there\u2019s a potential here for a few surprises tonight. And not just here. You get into New Hampshire — we\u2019ll find out. It won\u2019t be long now. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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