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<\/p>\nRUSH: Again, I want to go back. There are two polling groups that have pulled out of Virginia (one of them a month ago) saying that it\u2019s over in and North Carolina. Suffolk Polling pulled out. They\u00c2\u2019re thinking, \u00c2\u201cIt\u2019s over there. We\u2019re not gonna spend any more money there.\u00c2\u201d<\/p>\n
Another poll pulled out of Florida yesterday or the day before. But the Drive-Bys continue to poll these states, obviously, and the Drive-Bys continue to put out polling data. \u00c2\u201cIt\u2019s tied! It\u2019s Obama here, Obama there, Romney there!\u00c2\u201d Nobody knows. That\u2019s why I say it\u2019s a turnout election now. It really is a turnout election. I was reading something today…<\/p>\n
And all of this is anecdotal. I\u2019m almost reluctant to pass this kind of stuff on because you can\u2019t say that it means anything nationally, but it\u2019s still interesting to hear. A college professor sent a note. I think it was to National Review, but it might have been Red State or some other blog. The college professor said (summarized), \u00c2\u201cYou know, students in my classes this year could not care less about this election, versus the students in my class four years ago.<\/p>\n
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\u00c2\u201cThis year, they don\u2019t care. They\u2019re not even paying much attention to it. And in a turnout election, if that means anything — if that ever could be extrapolated and said to have some scientific relationship to students across the country — it\u2019s not good for Obama.\u00c2\u201d But you just don\u2019t know. Here\u2019s a story from the Washington Times by Ralph Hallow.<\/p>\n
The headline: \u00c2\u201cAnalysts Say Polls Point to Romney Triumph — The tidal wave of anti-debt, anti-big-government voters that swamped Democrats in the 2010 congressional elections is readying itself again, poised to sweep Mitt Romney into the Oval Office… \u00c2\u2018It\u00c2\u2019s very, very likely,\u00c2\u2019 veteran Republican campaign pollster John McLaughlin [who\u00c2\u2019s working with Dick Morris] said, predicting a Romney tsunami Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\u00c2\u201c\u00c2\u2018Romney has surged in all the target states,\u00c2\u2019 Mr. McLaughlin said. \u00c2\u2018The undecided vote is not really undecided. They overwhelmingly disapprove of the job the president has done and will largely vote against the incumbent. It\u00c2\u2019s a hidden vote that will vote against the president.\u00c2\u2019\u00c2\u201d This is John McLaughlin, a recognized Republican pollster, again working with Dick Morris.<\/p>\n
He said the undecided vote really has made up their minds and it\u2019s anti-Obama. The question is do they show up or not. That\u00c2\u2019s really what it\u2019s gonna come down to. The undecideds may not vote. Or they may. But they are undecided because they\u2019re not voting for Obama. That\u2019s what \u00c2\u201cundecided\u00c2\u201d at this stage always means. They always break, a vast majority of them break against the incumbent. Now, there\u2019s also…<\/p>\n
Oh, what is their point about the…? Well, it\u2019ll come to me. But the next story is from Dan Henninger today in the Wall Street Journal. \u00c2\u201cRomney\u2019s Secret Voting Block.\u00c2\u201d Oh, I know what it was. It\u2019s all about some people have analyzed what the Obama strategy is, and I think they\u2019re right about this. What the Obama campaign team is doing is trying to re-create 2008\u00c2\u2019s turnout. They\u2019re trying to re-create that coalition of support.<\/p>\n
And in the process, the analysts are saying that the mistake the Obama people are making is to ignore what happened in 2010. I have to tell you, folks, I think everybody\u2019s ignoring 2010 except me. I think 2010 matters big time. Now, the experts, the analysts, consultants, disagree. I\u2019m not one of those. I mean, I\u2019m not a political professional; I\u2019m a professional, real radio announcer.<\/p>\n
But 2010 was huge.<\/p>\n
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That\u2019s the Tea Party. That\u2019s average Americans fed up, getting involved for the first time in their lives over debt and the growing size of government and what it means to their kids, and they\u2019ve not gone anywhere. And they\u2019re just as upset now as they were in 2010. And I think any campaign that thinks that has died out or that that doesn\u2019t matter because it was a midterm election and presidential races are different…<\/p>\n
And they are. There\u2019s no candidate in the 2010 midterms, which I think is even worse for Obama. These were people coming out against ideas, which is what we want. I mean, if you get into Politics 101 or Civics 101, we\u2019ve seen all the details. When you first start learning about this stuff, the thing that you\u2019re taught is that the best ideas win. It\u2019s only later that you learn how the business gets corrupted and how money matters.<\/p>\n
It\u00c2\u2019s only then you learn how votes are purchased and there\u2019s fraud and deceit and all that kind of stuff. But in the clean, baby-like infant world when you\u2019re first learning, you think ideas matter. Well, that\u2019s what was great about 2010. That was an ideas election. It was Obama\u2019s ideas being rejected and Obama himself being rejected, and it was a huge landslide defeat for the Democrats. And they are choosing to ignore that.<\/p>\n
They think it doesn\u2019t matter. They\u2019re trying to re-create what happened in 2008 without considering what happened in 2010. Now, this is why some of the analysts on our side are predicting a big Romney win. But 2010 does matter. It really happened. And it was devastating for the Democrats, and it\u2019s not done one thing but get worse since then. It hasn\u2019t gotten any better.<\/p>\n
Spending has gone up, the debt has gotten larger, family income has shrunk, and unemployment has gone up. The poverty level has gone up. The number of people on food stamps has almost doubled. I mean, from 2008, it\u2019s disaster out there. And I think people that just wanna write 2010 off as an anomaly — which is what Obama\u2019s doing — that\u2019s the essence of wishful thinking, if you ask me.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s the avoidance of reality, if you ask me.<\/p>\n
To sweep 2010 away doesn\u2019t mean because it wasn\u2019t a presidential race, there weren\u2019t any candidates. Now you have candidates out there, national candidates: Romney and Obama. That\u2019s gonna change the way people vote as opposed to way they vote in midterms. We shall see. But 2010 was an uprising in this country against Obama and everything he stands for and an uprising against the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n
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Now, I can understand why they\u2019d want to try to pretend it didn\u2019t happen \u2019cause these people create these little bubbles of reality in which they live, and anything that challenges it they don\u2019t let in. And Daniel Henninger today, Wall Street Journal: \u00c2\u201cRomney\u2019s Secret Voting Bloc.\u00c2\u201d I love this. I love this. Because I think this is true as well. He starts out this way:<\/p>\n
\u00c2\u201cYou\u2019ve heard about Mitt Romney\u2019s problems with the women\u2019s vote, the black vote, the Hispanic vote, the union vote and the young Democrats vote. But there\u2019s one major voting group that\u2019s fallen off the map since the primaries,\u00c2\u201d that nobody\u2019s talking about. Nobody is referencing them, nobody is factoring them. Snerdley, off the top of your fertile mind do you…? (interruption) Nope, not white males. White males might be a subgroup of this group, but it\u2019s not what Henninger is talking about.<\/p>\n
\u00c2\u201cThe evangelical vote.\u00c2\u201d The evangelical vote. What would you call them, the religious right, the value voters, or (as they would say at Planned Parenthood), \u00c2\u201cThe damn pro-lifers.\u00c2\u201d Some moderate Republicans would say \u00c2\u201cdamn pro-lifers,\u00c2\u201d too, but they\u2019re not being counted on. They\u2019re not being polled. They\u2019re not being factored. They\u2019re not considered a constituency.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll tell you the story again. You\u2019ve heard this story, I\u2019m sorry, but I\u2019m gonna tell it again because of the new-tune-in factor here. You wouldn\u2019t believe each week the number of people tuning into this program for the first time after 25 years. I was at a big bash of establishment Republican donors and fundraisers and cabinet secretaries in the early nineties in the Hamptons. After dinner — and I\u2019ve only been doing the show by that time four years or so, so I\u2019m still really still green. I\u2019m still really naive in a lot of ways. I, for example, think that we\u2019re all Republicans and we\u2019re all on the same team.<\/p>\n
I had this one guy (who you would know if I were to ever announce his name) come up to me on the deck after dinner and start poking me in the chest with the index finger. He said to me, \u00c2\u201cWhat are you gonna do about the Christians?\u00c2\u201d I, quite naturally, was taken aback. I didn\u00c2\u2019t know what he was talking about, because he was mad.<\/p>\n
I said, \u00c2\u201cWhat are you talking about?\u00c2\u201d<\/p>\n
\u00c2\u201cThat damn abortion! We\u2019re never gonna win a damn election as long as those people are considered prominent in our party. It\u00c2\u2019s never gonna happen. They turn women off every damn day! We\u00c2\u2019re never gonna win. We gotta get rid of them.\u00c2\u201d<\/p>\n
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I looked at him and said, \u00c2\u201cYou know, they are 24 million votes. You wouldn\u2019t be winning any election without them.\u00c2\u201d<\/p>\n
Then he said, \u00c2\u201cAll right, I\u2019m just kidding you. I\u2019m just having a little fun with you,\u00c2\u201d and maybe part of it was.<\/p>\n
But I\u2019ve always known since then that at certain levels of the Republican establishment there is a deep fear of these people, \u2019cause they\u2019re embarrassing to go to the convention with and they\u2019re considered single-issue voters. Their wives are all feminists and don\u2019t like these people and they get nagged about it. But the point is, they are a large part of the Tea Party. They are a large part of the what happened in 2010. And the evangelicals, the media hates \u2019em, the Democrats hate \u2019em, and they tell themselves that they don\u2019t matter. They\u2019re just a bunch of really dumb, stupid, single-issue people. <\/p>\n
Have you heard any discussion of this voting bloc in this whole campaign? You haven\u2019t, have you? They are 24 million votes. They always have been. And they are way under the radar of the Drive-Bys, at least publicly. I\u2019m sure that Axelrod and Plouffe and these guys live in mortal fear of them. They\u2019re never gonna acknowledge it. But, you see, the media and the Democrats are not interested or even curious to learn anything about these people. They so despise them and resent them, and conservatives in general. Liberals don\u2019t even care to understand us. They just reject. The same thing with Tea Party people. They\u2019re dumb, stupid. They don\u2019t know what they\u2019re doing. They\u2019re not professionals. They\u2019re just these average citizens that show up at town halls, they don\u2019t know what they\u2019re doing. So there\u2019s a resentment of them, and they\u2019re denigrated. They\u2019re impugned and laughed at. <\/p>\n
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