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<\/p>\nRUSH: There\u2019s a piece that\u2019s interesting here, I had it in yesterday\u2019s Stack and didn\u2019t get to it but I held it over. Daniel Foster. Let me just read excerpts of this to you. “Yesterday afternoon on the seventh floor of a nondescript glass office tower on the fringes of downtown Tampa –” this would have been Sunday afternoon “– I sat in a dark room behind a two-way mirror and watched the one-and-only Frank Luntz put a focus group of 23 ‘swing voters\u2019 through the paces.<\/p>\n
“What I learned: Americans are worried. About a lot of things. It was a two-and-a-half-hour session, but I\u00c2\u2019ll give you a for instance. Americans are really worried about education: about cost and competition from abroad, about kids who mortgage their futures by forgoing college to work, about kids who are too lazy to work and hide away in college. They think we need better teachers. They think we need better parents (‘There should be parenting courses!\u2019).<\/p>\n
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“And so it went. Luntz covered all the big issues, from the economy (some are afraid it\u00c2\u2019s getting worse, but they\u00c2\u2019ve got hope; others are optimistic about growth, but they have their doubts) to increased political polarization (the problem, you see, is that Republicans pick conservatives in their primaries, and Democrats pick liberals in theirs).” And that\u2019s the problem. This is all what the swing voters were saying. <\/p>\n
Now, as you listen to this, keep in mind that\u2019s who everybody\u2019s gunning for, is these people. Let me just cut to the chase. Daniel Foster at National Review finished watching this and said: My God, these people are schizos! They\u2019re all over the place. They don\u2019t know what they think. They don\u2019t know why they think what they think. You can\u2019t pin \u2019em down on what they think. They think both sides of everything. They want everybody to think that they\u2019re fair.<\/p>\n
They want everybody to think that they\u2019re not this and not that, and that they\u2019re wonderful people. “The sum total revealed a bizarre truth about swing voters. It\u00c2\u2019s not that they\u00c2\u2019re divided on any given issue, with half taking one side and half the other. Rather, everybody seemed to agree with everybody else about everything — and to disagree with them, too. Transitory coalitions formed and dissolved in what seemed a matter of milliseconds, like exotic particles in a supercollider.<\/p>\n
“Everybody blames both parties for gridlock, but everyone also wants politicians brave enough to stand for their principles and against business as usual. Most call themselves moderates. One — one — describes himself as a liberal, and he voted for McCain and plans to vote for Romney. There were even those among them, reader, who liked Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan equally. Such people aren\u00c2\u2019t so much swing voters as they are schizophrenic. … The bad news is that these people are going to determine the election.<\/p>\n “The good news? The good news is that they are for Mitt.” That\u2019s what came out of all of this. Moderate swing voters, why are they moderate? You know what? I have a theory about this. As you listen to me read to you Daniel Foster\u2019s description of the swing voter in a Frank Luntz focus group, I don\u2019t think they\u2019re schizophrenic. Well, they may be schizophrenic. I think they\u2019ve been driven to it. I think these people, these poor people — these are your neighbors, our neighbors — have been driven to near-insanity.<\/p>\n Because they instinctively know what\u2019s right, and yet they see on the media every day that they\u2019re wrong. They know what\u2019s right, and they\u2019re made fun of. I think they instinctively know what\u2019s right and wrong, good and sensible, but they\u2019re told every day by the media and the pop culture that they\u2019re not right, that they\u2019re wrong. So it makes \u2019em nuts. They have been made schizophrenic. They\u2019re nuts out there.<\/p>\n They succumb to the daily barrage that they\u2019re subjected to that they\u2019re kooks, freaks, and oddballs. And they don\u2019t want people to think that. So when they\u2019re put together in a focus group, they make sure that whoever\u2019s running that focus group knows that they\u2019re for this and against it. For it and against it! They see both sides. In other words, “I can see how you feel. I don\u2019t necessarily feel that way now, but I did yesterday.” Anything to avoid criticism. They\u2019re truly schizophrenic, and they\u2019re nuts. And that\u2019s how we get moderates!<\/p>\n It\u2019s how we get people afraid to stand for things because they\u2019re routinely beaten up. Look at the what happens to conservatives in the media who stand up for it. I don\u2019t care who you are, you get destroyed. You get creamed if you go public with it. Well, these people don\u2019t want that. Anyway, as it turns out, they are for Mitt Romney. This group of 23 that Luntz put together (supposedly a representative, nationwide sample) is for Mitt Romney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" RUSH: There\u2019s a piece that\u2019s interesting here, I had it in yesterday\u2019s Stack and didn\u2019t get to it but I held it over. Daniel Foster. Let me just read excerpts of this to you. “Yesterday afternoon on the seventh floor of a nondescript glass office tower on the fringes of downtown Tampa –” this would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n![](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RushGOPDemsArticle.jpg\"\/)
<\/a>“One minute, Latino Nose Spectacles was in complete agreement with Senior in Blazer. The next, they were at each other\u00c2\u2019s throats, and Young Yellow Dress had to team with Hair Gel to step in as the voice of reason. Working majorities seemingly assented to some premise, only to split a thousand ways on the most straightforward logical conclusion from said premise. Everybody hates Congress, but most of these people either voted for their current congressmen or can\u00c2\u2019t name them.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/000MostDangerousMan.jpg\"\/)
<\/a>They also know that they\u2019re the focal point of every campaign. Swing voters, undecideds<\/a>. And when it comes time for them to get in a group and tell everybody what they think, they make sure that they tell you they agree with both sides of everything. These people, in their own minds, are beaten up every day. I think they\u2019ve got the right instincts. I think they probably know what\u2019s right and wrong, good and bad, but they\u2019re weak.<\/p>\n