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RUSH: You gotta hear this. Richard Stengel. You thought it was gonna be your story on the castration guy, right? That\u2019s coming up. You gotta hear this. Richard Stengel, the TIME Magazine guy, the editor. You know, yesterday he was on Today show<\/a>, announced Obama as the Person of the Year. He said the reason why they named Obama Person of the of Year is because the no-information voters love the guy. They\u2019re transforming America. They actually said this. TIME magazine said it\u2019s remarkable he\u2019s worth being Person of the Year, \u2019cause he\u2019s the guy that ended up being able, the first politician to get votes from people who don\u2019t care about anything and who aren\u2019t paying attention. That is worth honoring in 2012, almost 2013 America. <\/p>\n

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That\u2019s what the guy said. I\u2019m not putting words in his mouth. I mean, I\u2019m paraphrasing, but it\u2019s what he said. It\u2019s noteworthy that finally we have a politician who is able to get votes from people who don\u2019t pay attention to anything. If only we had more people who could get the votes of people who don\u2019t know anything, who don\u2019t care about anything, who aren\u2019t involved, the morons, the low-information voter. This guy\u2019s not through. Stengel was on Charlie Rose last night. The more this guy talks, the better it gets. Now, the reason why the first debate actually did not help Romney is because the low-information voters loved Obama appearing out-of-it. That meant, to the low-information voters, that Obama is not a typical Washington politician, that he doesn\u2019t play the game. The fact that he acted like he wasn\u2019t there and couldn\u2019ta cared less whether he was there was an attractive thing to the low-information voter, and that\u2019s why the TIME magazine guy said these are the people that inspired us to name Obama the Person of the Year. Charlie Rose says, “Obama, Person of the Year, what about this can you tell us?”<\/p>\n

STENGEL: The Obama campaign discovered that these people who say they\u2019re not interested in politics who do not like the Republicans who do not like the democrats, who do not like Washington, you know what they do like? They like Barack Obama because they sense something about him that he\u2019s not really a part of it. So even that first debate, which we all thought was a debacle, a lot of those people thought “Well, I liked that because he\u2019s not playing that game. He\u2019s not playing gotcha. He\u2019s not saying nasty things.” That helped tip the balance for him.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, I don\u2019t know, folks. I mean, it\u2019s gotta be over, doesn\u2019t it? Either that or they only can say that Obama\u2019s a cult figure and all this insanity will end when his second term ends. Let\u2019s parse this \u2019cause you did hear what you just heard. The Obama campaign discovered that these people who say they\u2019re not interested in politics, who don\u2019t like Republicans, don\u2019t like the Democrats, don\u2019t like Washington, like Obama. He is Washington. He\u2019s more Washington than any president has ever been. This guy is government. He is Mr. Insider. But remember the exit polls. He didn\u2019t get blamed for the economy; Bush did. <\/line><\/p>\n

It was as though Obama was in the office for four years but nothing attached to him. And now TIME Magazine says that the first debate was not a debacle. It actually helped Obama win, because the low-information voters determined the outcome, and they liked seeing a guy disengaged. They like seeing a guy not interested in what\u2019s going on in Washington. That\u2019s cool, \u2019cause they don\u2019t like Washington, they don\u2019t like Democrats, don\u2019t like Republicans. And Obama acted like he didn\u2019t want to be there, either. That\u2019s our guy. That\u2019s what the TIME magazine editor is saying. I like that. He\u2019s not playing that game. He\u2019s not playing gotcha. He\u2019s not saying nasty things. That helped tip the balance for him. <\/p>\n

Now, folks, I hate to tell you this, there may be something to it because The Politico has a story today — how do I set this up? The Politico has a story today about how independents no longer determine the outcome of elections. If that is true, I have to tell you, in terms of the campaign consultant class, the inside the Beltway class, if independents no longer determine the election, and instead, by the way, what determines electoral outcomes today is who gets their base out best. And in this election, I have to tell you, Romney killed. I mean, he won Ohio\u2019s independents by a vast majority. He won the independents in three of the five swing states, double digits, and lost the election. <\/line><\/p>\n

Now, these consultants, for my entire life, and you\u2019ve heard this, too, that the model for electoral victory is based on this belief that the Democrat candidate\u2019s gonna get his 40% of his base and the Republicans gonna get his 40. That\u2019s a wash. The 20% undecided, independent, in the middle, that\u2019s where you win or lose the election. And every campaign consultant tells every candidate, “I\u2019m the guy that can get you those voters. I know how to get the independents.” And the Republicans, whoever, I don\u2019t care Romney, McCain, they all hire these consultants who claim to be experts in getting the independents. And the Romney campaign got them. And the Romney campaign lost. Because Obama did turn out his base better than Romney turned out his base. And the reason Romney didn\u2019t turn out his base as well is because the Republicans did not go for —<\/p>\n

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The Republican establishment, as you and I\u2019ve discussed, are largely embarrassed of some elements of their base. They\u2019re embarrassed of the pro-life, religious right crowd, as you well know, and some of them are very embarrassed of the NRA crowd. And so the Romney campaign bought the belief the election\u2019s won with the independents, and that\u2019s what they aimed for, and they got \u2019em, and they still lost. And so now the uninformed, the low-information voter, the unengaged, or disengaged, the voter not paying attention to anything but still shows up to vote, that is who determined this election\u2019s winner. <\/p>\n

Now, let me ask you this: If that\u2019s true, and it\u2019s your job to get those people\u2019s votes, how would you do it? By definition, they don\u2019t care. By definition, they don\u00c2\u2019t pay attention. By definition, they hate Washington. They hate Democrats; they hate Republicans. So how do you get them? I think this explains that Obama is a cult figure. He has an appeal that goes beyond politics (to these people, anyway) and I think that the only reason this is reality is because the media\u2019s never vetted him, and the Republicans didn\u2019t either.<\/line>The Republicans were afraid to. The charges of racism, all the criticism. So these low-information voters genuinely are low-information. They don\u2019t know a thing about Obama. They don\u2019t know anything. The media hasn\u2019t vetted him. By definition, they\u2019re not listening to this show. I mean, you cannot listen to this show and not care. You cannot listen to this show and be disengaged.<\/line><\/p>\n

So they aren\u2019t here. So they\u2019re not gonna hear about Obama. They\u2019re not gonna learn about him. You know, we vetted him. We spent four years informing people about who he is, where he comes from, the things that determine who he is and animate him. They don\u2019t know. They didn\u2019t care. He\u2019s something entirely different to them. Now, I\u2019m gonna go back to October 4th, 2012, and I want to replay some of my analysis after that first debate.<\/p>\n

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All the smart people said that independents were the key, and independents went for Romney big time. But he still lost because the low-information voters actually preferred the zonked-out, uninterested Obama spouting cliches. They didn\u2019t like Romney because he was aggressive and focused and looked successful. That\u2019s what TIME magazine is telling us. That\u2019s what TIME magazine\u2019s editor is telling us. (interruption) Snerdley, you can frown at me all you want.<\/p>\n

The fact of the matter is Romney won enough… If the standard formula that has been in play for 50,000 god-awful years had worked this election, Romney woulda won this thing in a landslide. The rule of thumb is, “You win the independents in double digits, and you are being coronated not just inaugurated.” And he won independents with big margins in three-of-five swing states, and lost. I don\u2019t care what Stengel is saying.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t care what these wackos are saying about the disengaged, uninformed, low-information voter. That fact alone, the fact that the independents no longer (at least in this election) were irrelevant? Do you realize how monumental that is? Do you realize what a shakeup that is to professional campaign consultants whose job it is to get candidates elected? I\u2019m serious. If future elections…<\/p>\n

If they\u2019re gonna take from this election that the way you win future elections is win the votes of people that don\u2019t care and aren\u2019t paying attention, how the hell do you do that? By definition, how do you reach people who don\u2019t like you? How do you reach people who aren\u2019t paying attention to you? How do you reach people who don\u2019t know anything? And then once you reach \u2019em, what do you do when you reach \u2019em? Act stupid? (laughing)<\/p>\n

It\u2019s just fascinating to me. Here\u2019s what I said.<\/p>\n

This is my on-the-spot analysis after the first debate…<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: An independent or a moderate who doesn\u2019t listen to partisan media, radio, TV, talk shows, or whatever, but watched the debate last night? He or she only knows Mitt Romney by virtue of the TV ads he or she has seen? You understand their head\u2019s swimming last night trying to figure out, “What — what — what — what — what? Wait a minute now! Where\u2019s the War on Women? Where\u2019s this guy that wants to….?” It wasn\u2019t there.<\/p>\n

Not for one second last night was Mitt Romney even close to the way he has been portrayed by the Democrats, the media, and Barack Obama for the past two years. Or even six years. In fact, it was Obama near the end of the debate who finally, after wandering in vain for a cogent thought all night, finally had no recourse but to descend to his own cliches. “Billionaires! Millionaires! Tax cuts for the rich!” All the vacuous, empty nothingness that has defined Obama and the left for so long all condensed into 90 minutes last night.<\/p>\n

It looked pathetic.<\/p>\n

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It looked old and tired and worn out just as Obama did.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And that is what looked attractive to the low-information voter. That\u2019s what looked attractive. “Obama, he\u2019s so disinterested. He didn\u2019t want to be there! That\u2019s our guy. We\u2019re so fed up with Washington.” Now, of course, the irony here is that if these low-information people who are so fed up with Washington had the slightest clue what was going on (chuckling), they wouldn\u2019t be anywhere near the Democrat Party or Obama. That\u2019s the irony of this.<\/p>\n

You know it and I know it.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: By the way, folks, it wasn\u2019t just three-of-five battleground states that Romney cleaned up in independents. It was five of the eight. It was in five-of-eight battleground states that Romney won huge. I mean, he didn\u2019t just win independents; he trounced President Obama in independents. But Romney didn\u2019t get his base out, and that\u2019s all Obama focused on.<\/p>\n

Now, Snerdley — and I\u2019m sure many of you — are in a panic. Some of you may be thinking, “What the hell? The world is ending Friday? It already did. We just don\u2019t know it yet.” Snerdley said, “This is depressing. I mean, is this the future: Independents no longer mattering?” I don\u2019t think so. Folks, I could be wrong, but I think this is all confirming that Obama\u2019s a cult figure.<\/p>\n

To a lot of people, he\u2019s still whatever they want him to be \u2019cause they don\u2019t know who he is. By definition, “low-information” means that they\u2019re ignorant. They don\u2019t know anything, and they don\u2019t care to know. And there are enough of them to offset traditional voting patterns, apparently. You know it. You look at election returns in every election. We have country of 300 people and 200 million adults. Look at the number of adults who vote.<\/p>\n

Every four years we get inside the Beltway people wringing their hands over the lack of participation in our democracy and how people don\u2019t care. You know there are a lot of people that don\u2019t vote, a lot of people that don\u2019t care. They did this time. Obama\u2019s vote totals were down three to four million from 2008 to 2012. But look who made up the difference. The morons! (I think I\u2019m actually being charitable with that term.)<\/p>\n

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Now, I know. I know it\u2019s TIME magazine saying this. I\u2019m not agreeing with this because TIME is saying this. I happen to think there\u2019s something to this because the law forever — the political law of winning elections — really has been that whoever wins independents wins the election. It didn\u2019t work out that way this time, and there\u2019s a reason why. I think the low-information voter is a relatively new phenomena, at least in being so labeled.<\/p>\n

It adds even more insult to the injury we\u2019re already facing. We already have a debacle. Do you know what the real worry here is given this? If you don\u2019t feel bad enough yet (chuckles), let me add this. Ronald Reagan — and Obama knows this, by the way. Ronald Reagan was the last transformative president we had, a man who genuinely changed the direction the country was going. He substantively, genuinely changed it.<\/p>\n

He was not a caretaker president; he was transformative.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what Obama wants to be, and here\u2019s the danger. The danger is — and we\u2019re already on this road. Obama is a socialist. Obama is a liberal. If that ends up being seen as Reaganesque, not ideologically but in the sense that he\u2019s a transformative president… The Democrats hate Reagan, but the country doesn\u2019t. The country loves Ronald Reagan. His funeral was populated by millions. I mean, you saw it if you paid any attention.<\/p>\n

The country loves Ronald Reagan, and in many ways it\u2019s not simply because of his politics or his ideology. He just was that big, that important. That\u2019s what Obama is angling for, and if Obama\u2019s politics — socialism, redistributionism, big government expansion, all this — become seen by a lot of people as transformative and good, then we\u2019re gonna lose the country for a generation or two. We\u2019re in the process of… Well, we\u2019re at risk of that anyway. But this further, I think, illustrates how the low-information voter phenomenon is something serious to be dealt with.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me tell you, folks, it isn\u2019t all bad. There are positives to be gleaned from what we think we\u2019ve learned here. Well, we know that independents, for the first time in many, many moons, were of no relevance to an election outcome in 2012. Romney won huge in independents, five out of eight swing states. And therein lies what is intriguing to me. Now, Romney may not have been Reagan. Romney may not have been articulating the full-bore conservative message. But, Romney was clearly an alternative to Obama. Would you agree with that? I mean, he may not have been as pedal-to-the-metal conservative as you and I would like, but he clearly was an alternative to Obama, and where did the independents go? <\/p>\n

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Maybe you don\u2019t want to say they went to Romney, but they certainly abandoned Obama. From 2008 to 2012, they abandoned Obama. So a message, and maybe it wasn\u2019t even a message. Maybe it was that the independents just wanted no more of Obama, like the rest of us didn\u2019t. Maybe Romney didn\u2019t attract them. Maybe it was just anybody but Obama to them. But regardless, that\u2019s still good news. The good news here is that the independents, in striking numbers, wanted no more of this. And here is more good news, but it\u2019s challenging good news. It means that either a conservative message, a watered down conservative message, or simply no desire for socialism led independents to the Republican Party. <\/p>\n

However, the problem now turns out to be — and we know that between three and four million white Americans who voted in \u201908 for McCain did not vote in 2012. We have to assume that many of those are conservatives. We know that some conservatives didn\u2019t vote for whatever reasons. And what that means is the Republican Party did not get out its base. This is the good news. Had the Republican Party, had Romney torn off the blinders, gotten rid of the boundaries, had the Republican Party run a cheerful, informative, conservative, unabated, undiluted conservative campaign, Obama would have lost. I think it\u2019s safe to say, knowing what we know now, the independents abandoning Obama, for whatever reason, and for whatever reason it\u2019s good news. <\/p>\n

Also the good news, the Republican Party knows what they\u2019ve gotta do now. The question is — and this is the big question. The big question, does the Republican Party have the slightest clue? You and I know what they have to do, you and I know what would have won this election, and that\u2019s exactly what the Republican Party is afraid of. And, by the way, every damn one of their consultants is afraid of it. The Republican consultant class, I mean, these people hate conservatism. Well, hate is a strong word. They\u2019re embarrassed by certain elements of people who call themselves conservative. But I think now it\u2019s crystal clear, had the Republican Party, had Romney run a full-fledged conservative campaign, it would not have scared the independents off. They were already repelled by Obama. <\/p>\n

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You see, the Democrat trick worked. The Democrat media trick is do not criticize Obama, the independents don\u2019t like that. You\u2019ll force the independents right back into Obama\u2019s arms if you do that. And of course the wizards of smart in the Republican Party said, “Yeah, yeah, yeah, can\u2019t criticize Obama. He\u2019s a nice guy, just in over his head. He\u2019s a wonderful family man, just in over his head. He\u2019s trying really hard, just doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s doing.” And so because we were afraid — not you and me, but the party was afraid to tell this country who Obama is because they were afraid of losing independents. This whole Republican campaign was based on fear of losing the independents. They were so hell-bent on getting the independents, and they had them. They had them starting in 2010 without doing anything. <\/p>\n

They were afraid they were gonna lose them if they sounded at all conservative. They bought hook, line, and sinker this stupid idea that independents will not tolerate criticism or partisanship. What a crock. So the Republican Party shackles itself, puts itself in a straitjacket, believes all this BS and ends up losing elections. Now it\u2019s clear what could have happened. So here we are, ladies and gentlemen, in what appears to many to be dark days. And it is I, El Rushbo, bringing a glimmer of light here, because actually it\u2019s a little maddening and frustrating. We coulda won this and we coulda won this big with conservatism. We could have won this with the independents that Romney got, if we\u2019da just pulled out our base, like Obama got his, this wouldn\u2019t even have been close. <\/p>\n

So, in a real sense, we haven\u2019t lost the country, but Obama won, and so we got big problems now. Because the low-information voters are now the new kings. The morons, the people that don\u2019t pay attention. They\u2019re being honored today because they voted for Obama. They\u2019re being celebrated. They are the reason Obama\u2019s Person of the Year. Obama\u2019s the magician, the brilliant guy who found a way to reach out to the low-information, uninformed, don\u2019t care, apathetic voters and turn \u2019em out. And so, politics is gonna be made up of campaigning to those people. <\/p>\n

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What did Obama do? Obama offered a government safety net, as a safety net. He\u2019s Santa Claus for unemployment. He offered himself as a sympathetic, understanding guy to the slackers. And so these low-information, nonparticipating people <\/a>in this country were allowed to feel good about themselves and their situation. So now basement dwellers are the new welfare queens. That may not be the right phrase, but you know what I mean. So it is. There\u2019s a little glimmer of hope. Now what we have to do, now the real task at hand, and the Republicans had better get a grip and man up here and stop thinking that what they have to do is go along with Obama and go along with the Democrats if they\u2019re to survive. <\/p>\n

The biggest mistake they could make is thinking that they\u2019ve got to cave to the Democrats because the people want the Democrats, the people want the liberal way. The Republican Party\u2019s problem is that its own supporters won\u2019t turn out for it, at least in presidential races. If Obama, as a quasi-socialist, certainly a liberal, if Obama is allowed to be seen as transformative, as Reagan was, not ideologically, but in terms of greatness and changing the trajectory and changing the direction of the country for what people think is good, and don\u2019t discount that. Remember, now, the exit poll, 54% — no, it was higher than that — blame Bush for the economy. <\/p>\n

People aren\u2019t blaming Obama for any of this mess yet. Obama\u2019s getting credit for trying to fix it, folks. Obama\u2019s getting credit for trying to deal with it. That\u2019s got to change. He\u2019s gotta own this stuff. We haven\u2019t been able to make him own the last four years. I don\u2019t know how you make him own the fiscal cliff,<\/a> for example, but that\u2019s the challenge here. Otherwise, we\u2019re looking at a generation lost, as we\u2019ve been talking all week, and the last two weeks. What\u2019s Obama selling? Obama is selling the country was founded unfairly and unjustly. The country was founded as a rigged game, a stacked deck. And the people who founded it — we all know who they were — arranged it so that the country was always gonna be theirs. And then what did they do? They ran around the world, and they took from that country and they took from that country and stole this resource and monopolized that resource, and tortured their opponents in war.<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s how we became a superpower and we don\u2019t deserve that, and these people who benefited from this unfair founding, it\u2019s time they paid their fair share now. Look at all the people signing up for that. Look at the polling data. It\u2019s time to make the rich pay their fair share. It\u2019s clear that Obama selling the notion that what\u2019s wrong in this country is that one to 2% of the people have always had all the money. It\u2019s time to take it back from \u2019em. And that\u2019ll fix everything. That\u2019s transformative. If somebody\u2019s able to sell that, if somebody\u2019s able to convince hundreds of millions of Americans that the problem is that 1%, 2% of people have all the money and now we gotta go get it from \u2019em… I don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve noticed, but in terms of matters of race, we\u2019re heading back to the pre-Civil Rights Act days. <\/p>\n

Jamie Foxx is joking about how much fun it was to kill white people in the movie. I mean, this represents something. I mean, it is an example of a cultural societal shift and change. It\u2019s almost as though the grievances that have existed since the founding never have been dealt with. It was all phony, all the Civil Rights Act, nobody really meant that, nothing really ever changed. We never did really get rid of slavery. I mean, that\u2019s what\u2019s being sold now. Only now are we really dealing with the mistakes that were made when this country was founded, only now. That is what Obama is selling, and he\u2019s selling himself as the transformative politician that\u2019s finally going to get this country right. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: You remember, for example, when Obama went on a radio show hosted by somebody called “The Pimp with a Limp.” When Obama did that, we had a number of reactions to it, and they were all understandable. “What\u2019s he doing going on low-rent, guttural stuff like that for?” You know, you and I remember when the president of the United States wouldn\u2019t dare go on late night TV.<\/p>\n

It was unseemly. It was unpresidential. It was undignified of the office. Now we\u2019ve got a president who lives in these places. Late night TV, multiple times. Wife, late night TV. The Pimp with a Limp-type shows. And it worked! It did not hurt Obama\u2019s chances. Just the exact opposite. Now, there\u2019s no way Mitt Romney coulda gone on The Pimp with a Limp\u2019s show and triumphed. It wouldn\u2019t work. Bill Clinton could. Hillary Clinton could.<\/p>\n

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John Kerry couldn\u2019t. McCain couldn\u2019t. Bite Me couldn\u2019t. There are very few of these Democrats that can. Clinton still, with his resume and the shame that he has experienced, the shame he\u2019s put himself through, is doing great. The being disbarred, lying under oath, all these things. You would never, ever accept this kind of stuff in a president in my lifetime. Today Bill Clinton\u2019s a hero.<\/p>\n

And to the people we\u2019re talking about, he\u2019s a hero because he got away with it. To these low-information voters, Clinton\u2019s a hero. “‘Cause these mean, establishment people, all these stuffed shirts are going after him. He outfoxed \u2019em. That\u2019s our guy.” I don\u2019t know whether Democrats strategized this or they swerved into it, but all these things are factors. (laughing)<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, we got people on TV talking about the gross negative GDP as opposed to the seasonal-adjusted GDP, based on what the BLS is saying about last month\u2019s unemployment numbers for one-armed amputees on 58th and Sixth in Manhattan. And when we finish with that, we then get into the negative growth rate brought on by the manufacturing deficiency in the inventory sector.<\/p>\n

And after we finish telling everybody what\u2019s gone wrong with inventories and why that economic growth is not really because of growth but it\u2019s really because people are restocking inventories, we think we\u2019re scoring points. And the low-information voters say, “What is an inventory? What is unemployment?” In fact, low-information voters? Low-information voters don\u2019t even know what a weekend is, \u2019cause every day is one.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: So what does all this mean for me going forward, ladies and gentlemen, as your host? What does it mean for me? One thing it might mean that for an hour or two a week I become a low-information guy myself to appeal to them. I mean, just an hour or two a week I\u2019ll become a moron. I don\u2019t know anything. I may even go up to Port St. Lucie and stop into the McDonald\u2019s and ask for some McNuggets, and when they don\u2019t have any, I\u2019ll call 911 — and then I\u2019ll call the newspaper so they found out that I did it.<\/p>\n

There gotta be some way to relate to these people.<\/p>\n

Maybe it\u2019s something besides McNuggets, but you know the drift.<\/p>\n

I mean, you get the point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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