{"id":9284,"date":"2014-05-22T19:13:25","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T19:13:25","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-05-22T19:13:25","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T19:13:25","slug":"the_tea_party_is_a_mindset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/05\/22\/the_tea_party_is_a_mindset\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tea Party is a Mindset"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: I want to go back for just a second to this AP story <\/a>on how nobody cares about who wins the midterms. It\u2019s a predicate, if you will, to deny the Republicans a mandate if they happen to win and win big. The Associated Press is attempting to setup the narrative, “People don\u2019t care the midterms! It really doesn\u2019t matter, and nearly half don\u2019t care who wins or any of that.”<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not the point, because this poll is about something we already know, and what we already know is that traditionally voter participation rates in midterm elections are way down when compared to presidential election years. That, in fact, is what was noteworthy about 2010. That turnout was through the roof, and it was through the roof because of the Tea Party — and that even needs to be said. <\/p>\n

There is no Tea Party. <\/p>\n

You know, the media loooooves to talk about how the Tea Party is dead. There isn\u2019t really a Tea Party. There is no leader. There\u2019s nobody running for the Congress or the Senate on the Tea Party ticket. There is no Tea Party building. It is a mindset. It\u2019s average Americans fed up with professional politicians, and it\u2019s people who oppose runaway government spending, runaway expansion of government. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re worried about their kids\u2019 and grandkids\u2019 future financially. They\u2019re worried about freedom and liberty, and they want to maintain the principles that founded the country. But there is no Tea Party per se. But what happened in 2010 was that a lot of people who had never formally organized, did. They had voted, but they\u2019d never formally organized in terms of opposing or supporting something. <\/line><\/p>\n

It only was called the Tea Party because Rick Santelli on CNBC referred to the Tea Party and throwing tea in the Boston Harbor and people objecting in the here and now in a way similar to what happened during the days of the founding. But for traditional midterm election turnout, we already know that voter participation rates are around 40%. We know that 50% to 60% of the public doesn\u2019t care enough in midterms to go vote. <\/p>\n

So they\u2019re taking a story there\u2019s nothing new about, and pushing it. There\u2019s nothing new in that 46% of the people don\u2019t care who wins because 46% don\u2019t vote. So that does not tell us anything, because what you have to look at — what you have to survey and what you have to poll — is the percentage who do care and who are gonna vote, and what they think and what\u2019s animating and motivating them. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s what the AP is not doing. The AP\u2019s ignoring them and taking the 46% who say, “I don\u2019t care enough. I\u2019m not gonna go vote. It doesn\u2019t matter,” and they\u2019re using that 46% to say that Republicans, if they win, aren\u2019t gonna have a mandate. It\u2019s done purposefully. The only relevant thing here is what do people who are actually going to vote think? I don\u2019t care if it\u2019s 10% or 20% or 30%. They are the ones who matter.<\/p>\n

How they vote matters, and the AP is studiously, purposely ignoring them, and focusing — as far as their news story is concerned — for low-information consumption. The headline is supposed to be, “Nobody cares! This midterm is no big deal anybody. Look at it: 46% don\u2019t even care who wins!” That\u2019s \u2019cause they\u2019re not gonna vote. They never do, unless it\u2019s something outrageous or unique that drives them like 2010 did. <\/p>\n

And this could be as big as 2010, I think. <\/p>\n

But the fact that 46% aren\u2019t gonna vote is immaterial. It doesn\u2019t matter, except it can be used by the media to spin a story that things aren\u2019t bad for the Democrats when they really are, and that\u2019s what that story was trying to do, plain and simple. You have to know how to analyze this stuff. That\u2019s why I say, “Don\u2019t try this at home.”<\/p>\n

And don\u2019t leave it up to the professional analysts on cable TV, because half of \u2019em are gonna totally miss the trick in that story. I guarantee you, if that story happens to find its way to cable TV, you\u2019re gonna hear a reporter say, “Ah, you know what? In all this talk that we\u2019ve done about the midterms, it turns out that 46% don\u2019t even care who wins,” and that\u2019s gonna be the focal point.<\/p>\n

Meaning, “Nobody\u2019s really fired up about Obama. Nobody cares! It\u2019s not that much of a concern,” and it\u2019s gonna be used to dispirit those of you who do care and plan to show up. It\u2019s purposefully done. Don\u2019t let it bother you, because it doesn\u2019t matter. What matters is who is gonna vote and how they\u2019re gonna vote and what they think, and that is gonna have impact because it\u2019s gonna be 56%.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s still a majority, according to their own story. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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