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RUSH: Bruce, Fort Wayne, Indiana, you\u2019re next, it\u2019s Open Line Friday on Thursday here. Great to have you with us.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush. Mega dittos.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: The last month I\u2019ve noticed you spouting this 80% statistic about Hillary winning the election, and I\u2019ve been listening since \u201901. I\u2019ve been kind of a post-September 11th listener, and you kept on saying she wasn\u2019t the smartest woman in the room; the American people would see right through her; that she wasn\u2019t a very appetizing individual, and she had high negatives. How is this product now 80% based entirely on the lack of Republican leadership, or what changed you from you all those comments to now?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, at the time I made the statement — let me get the statement correct. At the time I made the statement, at that moment in time I said there\u2019s an 80% chance that she\u2019s going to be the next president, and it was based on the fact that there wasn\u2019t a whole lot of excitement in the Republican field, there was more excitement for people that were not in the race. Calculations also of the power of Clinton, Inc. —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — to take out opponents and so forth, the Democrat Party\u2019s sense of inevitability with her, the November elections, we lost the Congress.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What are we doing that looks like it\u2019s going to be won back? Plus you have a historical thing. It\u2019s rare for a party to hold the White House for three consecutive terms. Bush 41 did it after two terms of Reagan but you have to go pretty far back to find out where that\u2019s happened and we\u2019re not coming off a popular Republican presidency particularly among his own party right now. Now, there are so many variables in this. I\u2019ll tell you one thing the Clinton camp probably did not expect. There\u2019s a USA Today\/Gallup poll, and Barack Obama is one point ahead of her, it\u2019s 30 to 29. This is the last thing they expected to happen. Now, it\u2019s a statistical tie. But his fundraising is on par with hers, and maybe even exceeding hers in certain categories. Now, I don\u2019t think they ever thought that somebody, particularly somebody that only has been in this game for two years, would come out of the woodwork and so excite people as Barack Obama. <\/p>\n

I think they\u2019re going to have to start spending some of their war chest money on television ads and they\u2019re going to have to get in gear here a little sooner, because even though the public image of the Clintons is they didn\u2019t like this notion of inevitability because they wanted to be able to show that Hillary could overcome a challenge and can win a fight in the political arena, they did secretly rely on this inevitability, that she\u2019s it, the smartest woman in the world, Bill Clinton\u2019s wife, she\u2019s owed this, she has put up with so much, and she\u2019s done so much, and she has sacrificed so much. They were relying on that. Obama\u2019s thrown a little monkey wrench here by getting a little bigger and more powerful than they thought. But at the end of the day, I don\u2019t think the Clintons are going to have any trouble dealing with a guy who has only been in his foxhole for a couple months, and he\u2019s really not even been in it that long. He\u2019s been a senator for two months. But in terms of being in a campaign like this — and it really hasn\u2019t ratcheted up yet. The thing about Obama that frightens \u2019em is that the black vote, they need that, both in the primary and the general. If Obama gets in the way there, that could be a problem. But I haven\u2019t seen anything yet to change this prediction of mine or this assessment that there\u2019s an 80% chance as we sit here today that she\u2019s going to be elected. If that changes, I mean I will be the first to tell you. If I think it\u2019s dropped to 75%, when I think it\u2019s dropped to 75 or 70 I\u2019ll tell you. But right now, I am not ready to change my assessment of the situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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