{"id":215079,"date":"2016-12-02T18:02:34","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T23:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/12\/02\/a_shout_out_to_ann_althouse_for_schooling_low_information_academics\/"},"modified":"2018-02-05T11:14:49","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T16:14:49","slug":"a_shout_out_to_ann_althouse_for_schooling_low_information_academics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/12\/02\/a_shout_out_to_ann_althouse_for_schooling_low_information_academics\/","title":{"rendered":"A Shout Out to Ann Althouse for Schooling Low-Information Academics"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Ann Althouse. She\u2019s from Wisconsin. She has a blog<\/a> — she\u2019s had it for a while — and she wrote a blurb last night, a post, about two political science professors who have recently discovered the term “low-information voter” and sought to define it. And they defined it in a completely incorrect way, and she pointed out that I have been calling people low-information voters for years and to these two political science professors, “If you are in politics…” This is a paraphrase of what she said, but, “If you\u2019re in politics, and you don\u2019t know what Rush Limbaugh\u2019s talking about, then you are low-information.”<\/p>\n

I thought that was very kind of her and it\u2019s an astute observation, and the comments that followed were fascinating to look at the various definitions of low-information voter. People were inventing the definition themselves or writing their own or correctly and incorrectly quoting my definition of low-information voter. But her point was that these two poli-sci professors have this great new academic paper on low-information voters, and to them low-information voters are Trump supporters who just react and don\u2019t think. The high-information voters are people like them, the academics.<\/line><\/p>\n

And the point is, they are low-information voters! They don\u2019t challenge themselves. They do not know about people who don\u2019t think like they do. I do. I know liberals better than liberals know themselves. They have no idea who I am. That was her point. These are people teaching politics, and they don\u2019t know where the term “low-information voter” really comes from and then they screw up the definition. It\u2019s they who are low-information voters if they don\u2019t know — anybody in politics who doesn\u2019t know — what happens on this program. I just wanted to give her a shout out for that.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: By the way, let me clarify this definition of low-information voter, as I coined it. I learned from Ann Althouse\u2019s blog last night that it seems like everybody has their own definition for it, and a lot of people are misapplying the definition that I\u2019ve come up with to me, claiming that I mean something I don\u2019t mean by it. I coined the term “low-information voter” shortly after Obama\u2019s election in 2008.<\/p>\n

There was a TIME Magazine story that literally said a voluminous number of Obama voters never followed the news. And I said, “Well, there you go!” (laughing) I mean, makes perfect sense. So low-information voters began as low-information voters. They don\u2019t know anything! They don\u2019t follow the news. They\u2019re pure addicts of pop culture. They pay attention to what\u2019s on TV. They all dream about being on the red carpet. They dream about being famous.<\/p>\n

They idolize the Kardashians. I mean, they\u2019re into that kind of stuff — pop music, movies and so forth — but they don\u2019t have the slightest knowledge of politics. And they haven\u2019t been taught much about it, and that\u2019s what low-information voters are. Think of the people from Rio Linda. Rio Linda is actually the forerunner of the low-information voter.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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