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<\/p>\nRUSH: I want to remind you of some history. In June of 1980, basically the same period in the campaign where we are now, minus a month or so, in June of 1980 Jimmy Carter led Ronaldus Magnus 39 to 32. John Anderson, third-party candidate, independent candidate at 21%. Even into August and early September, Jimmy Carter was leading Ronaldus Magnus in the polls. Now, what I\u2019m leading up to is that Reagan won that election in a landslide. Jimmy Carter conceded on election night before the polls in California had closed, 1980. The preelection polls into September did not indicate anything of the sort. In fact, there was not one poll that showed the landslide that happened.<\/p>\n
Now, a quick question. The Carter presidency was a disaster in June of 1980. It was a disaster in June of 1979. The Carter presidency was a disaster in June of 1978. The Carter presidency was a disaster for three of the four years. In truth, the Carter presidency was a disaster from the moment Jimma was sworn in. It was an utter disaster and everybody knew it. The misery index was created in order to give life to the devastation. Unemployment was sky-high. Interest rates — I confuse interest rates with the inflation rate. But they were both in the teens. Or maybe it was unemployment was in the teens and the inflation was high, whatever. It was disastrous. Interest rates. People couldn\u2019t buy homes. It was an utter disaster. <\/p>\n
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Now, in June of 1990, Carter led Reagan by seven points. My point to you is, I don\u2019t believe any of this rotgut. I don\u2019t believe Carter was up by seven points in June of 1980. I think Carter was destined to lose in a landslide from that entire campaign. I don\u2019t think the polls were that wrong. I think people talking to the pollsters were not being that honest, for whatever reason. If there were a disaster, a landslide for Carter reflected in the polls, there would have been a massive cover-up for all the polls to lie about it. I think we\u2019ve got a carbon copy going on here. Now, we didn\u2019t have nearly as many people comfortably unemployed in 1980 as we do now. We didn\u2019t have as many people comfortably in economic distress as we do now. But we arguably are in a worse circumstance today than we were then, because the country was not hanging in the balance like it is today and like a majority of people think that it is today. <\/p>\n
It is why I say to you every day, if the election were held today, I think that Romney would win in a landslide. And I mean it, I\u2019m not just whistling Dixie, and I\u2019m not trying to be falsely optimistic or anything of the sort. And, by the way, Ronaldus Magnus was outspent by Jimmy Carter in 1980. Carter had the media on his side just like Obama does. And up until the last couple of days of the 1980 campaign, pollsters had it close. It was a toss-up. In the final days, the polls had it a toss-up. Carter leading, even, in a couple of polls. October 26, Gallup poll, 1980, two weeks before the election, Gallup had it Carter 47, Reagan 39. It ends up a landslide. <\/p>\n
Well, what the hell happened? People just didn\u2019t decide with two weeks to go that they wanted to get rid of Carter. They knew it months ahead of this, just as they know it now. But the one thing that\u2019s constant today and 1980 and that is the media — and I\u2019m here to tell you, they are scared, off camera, off mic, unseen while they\u2019re writing whatever they write, they are scared to death. Common sense, which they all have a little of, they all know this country\u2019s a disaster. They all know this economy\u2019s a disaster. They all know it\u2019s not Bush\u2019s fault. They all know that Obama hasn\u2019t the slightest clue what he\u2019s doing. None of that matters to them. Keeping Republicans out of power is all that matters to them. No matter what else happens, that\u2019s all that matters.<\/p>\n
And so the coverage and what\u2019s not covered news-wise each and every day is going to be structured in such a way as to reflect, “Hey, it\u2019s the new norm, nobody cares, it\u2019s fine. We wish the job situation was a little bit better, and we wish that the debt situation was a little bit better, but we\u2019re gonna have health care for everybody pretty soon.” Just cast this circumstance as normal as when the country is robustly healthy, all by design. ‘Cause that\u2019s what they want it to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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