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<\/a>RUSH: Barack Obama. This was an historic win, and I\u2019m going to tell you, I was on Fox News last night. I was watching Fox News, and it was about midnight, and I got an e-mail from Greta Van Susteren saying, ‘Will you come on if you\u2019re watching this, and join our panel?\u2019 Laura Ingraham, Susan Estrich, and Shep Smith were there. So I said, ‘Yeah, okay.\u2019 I called in. We have the audio sound bites of this. Shep had the first question. I wanted to talk about Obama. He wanted to know my reaction to the Republican side, so I dutifully did that. But I\u2019m going to tell you, this is historic last night. Barack Obama: the first black presidential candidate to win an election in the presidential primaries, and it was downplayed throughout all the networks! It was Huckabee this, Huckabee that; Huckabee here, Huckabee there. The Clinton News Network was beside itself trying to bury this news. Yet here it was historic, this win by Obama in Iowa. Do you realize what the black population in Iowa is? It\u2019s like one or two percent. Two percent! Given that, the win of Obama is bigger than it seems. I mean, here the black guy won over the wife of ‘the first black president,\u2019 who has an office in Harlem! Now how do they attack him? Everybody is wondering, ‘Are the Clintons going to go dirty now. Are they going to get dirty ads? What can they do? What can they do?\u2019 <\/p>\n

It\u2019s like I said last night with Obama: ‘If he goes on to win this, this campaign is going to be strictly on issues, as it should be.\u2019 You can\u2019t go after him ethically. You can\u2019t go after him on character like you could Hillary and Bill.\u2019 Ah, you gotta be very careful how you do it even if you think you can. This is one of the dilemmas that the Clintons face: ‘How do they go after the black guy?\u2019 It\u2019s just that simple. He\u2019s well-educated. He\u2019s well-spoken. He\u2019s extremely nice. How in the world do you set about demonizing this guy, if you are the Clintons? (interruption) Yes, I am all those things except I\u2019m not black and he is, and being black in the Democrat Party… We\u2019re going to see if the pedal actually hits the metal. We\u2019re going to see if the rubber hits the road, because the Democrat Party has built its current existence on many things — among them, that blacks in America have not been given a fair shake, that they\u2019re discriminated against, that they need affirmative action, that they are being held down by conservatives and Republicans and racists and sexists and bigots. Let\u2019s see now who it is that\u2019s going to try to hold this guy down. The Republicans aren\u2019t talking about this guy yet. They have their own problems. I want to see how Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton go after this guy. It\u2019s going to be very, very difficult to do. Besides all that, this was a devastating loss for her: nine points last night. Nine points! A candidate of inevitability does not lose, and certainly not by nine points! Listen to this sound bite from Andrea Mitchell. Andrea Mitchell is one of Mrs. Clinton\u2019s friends! This was on PMSNBC last night, post-cauci coverage. Chris Matthews was talking to Andrea Mitchell, who was at the Hillary Clinton celebration party, before it began. She was there at the Hillary Clinton hotel headquarters, and the question to her was, ‘Andrea, are they game now to win two here, to come in second?\u2019<\/p>\n

MITCHELL: This room was, until about five or six minutes ago, completely empty. This is a manufactured post-celebration. It really felt more like a funeral as people started sprawling in from upstairs where they had obviously been gathered. This is unlike anything that I\u2019ve ever seen: a completely empty, uh, dirge-like event and clearly now they\u2019ve got to go on to New Hampshire.<\/p>\n

RUSH: ‘A completely empty, dirge-like,\u2019 funereal event, ‘and now they have to go on to New Hampshire.\u2019 It was bad last night. I don\u2019t care about all of these expectations that they set for finishing third. Nobody anticipated going down by nine points. By the way, we didn\u2019t see Andrea Mitchell for another two hours after this report. I think Jeff Zucker at NBC went over and cut the cable. (laughter) That was just the first — and I\u2019d been watching all night — honest representation and portrayal of what it was like at Clinton campaign headquarters after this devastating defeat. Then, of course, Mrs. Clinton got out there and she started making her acceptance speech, and made it sound like they won. Everything is ‘we\u2019 this, ‘we\u2019 that. ‘We are going to going on!\u2019 It was very, very slick, but it didn\u2019t sell. It was just amazing. This is going to be… Now she\u2019s up in some districts in New Hampshire, and, you know, Obama is vulnerable in some ways, basically on his inexperience and this sort of thing. But Mrs. Clinton hasn\u2019t been able to be the one to capitalize on that. This morning on Good Morning America, ABC, Diane Sawyer spoke with George Stephanopoulos, and Sawyer said to Stephy, ‘Well, what does she do next?<\/p>\n

STEPHANOPOULOS: It\u2019s going to be very, very difficult for him. [sic] One of the arguments that Senator Clinton is going to try to make going into New Hampshire is that Barack Obama is not electable. He\u2019s going to be able to point back to those last two numbers, the numbers among independent voters in Iowa — and again, they\u2019re very, very important — in New Hampshire, and the fact that he brought young people into the system. He can say that that proves that he\u2019s electable, that he\u2019s the most electable candidate. He can bring new voters into the system. He can reach across party lines for Democrats — and that\u2019s where the battle is going to be joined, in New Hampshire and beyond.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Obama is really jamming it. By the way, did you hear Stephanopoulos? ‘It\u2019s going to be very, very difficult for him,\u2019 when asked what Hillary is going to do. A little faux pas perhaps? Obama was at a hangar today, maybe it was late last night. He said, ‘This feels good. This feels just like I imagined when I was talking to my kindergarten teacher,\u2019 which is a slam. He\u2019s killing Hillary, folks! He\u2019s literally killing her. He\u2019s just ramming it right back down her throat. Remember Hillary tried to say that he was lying about his ambition because he\u2019d written a piece in kindergarten how badly he wanted to be president so he\u2019s out there saying, ‘This feels really good. This feels like I imagined when I was talking to my kindergarten teacher.\u2019 It was a cold, echoing airplane hangar where he made the statement. You look at the turnout in the state of Iowa last night, and one of the things that you might be able to conclude, just from Iowa, is that the Baby Boomers\u2019 turn is over. You know, I hate to keep saying, ‘I told you so,\u2019 but one of the things that I found interesting was that this was the Baby Boomers\u2019 last chance; the anti-war left\u2019s last chance to get their hands around the throat of this country and bend it, shape it, flake it, form it to whatever they wanted. But Obama won this thing by getting people who had never participated before: younger people who have a totally different set of values and political identity, and have no memory of whatever the nineties was, great or bad, with the Clintons. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: The Boston Globe has a pretty good breakdown today of the demographics of the voters in Iowa last night, and it seemed that first-time caucus-goers were out in droves. However, the profile of these voters varied dramatically, this according to entrance polls conducted by the AP and the national election poll. Now, ‘The polls indicate Obama, the 45-year-old senator from Illinois, relied on young voters among the record number Democrats who participated in the caucuses — many of them self-described independents. By contrast, Huckabee, a former Arkansas governor and ordained Baptist minister, found his support among evangelical Christian voters who hold some of his party\u2019s more conservative views.\u2019<\/p>\n

Now, Huckabee only got 14% of the non-evangelical vote. Even more impressive on the other side of the aisle, Barack Obama won the women\u2019s vote. I hate to keep telling you I told you so, but I\u2019m watching last night, and the Drive-Bys are stunned when they report this data. They couldn\u2019t believe that women did not turn to Clinton. Do you realize, over 70% of the people in Iowa on the Democrat side who caucused last night voted against Mrs. Clinton? They had two options to vote against Mrs. Clinton, the Breck Girl and Obama, and they availed themselves of both. It\u2019s not just that she didn\u2019t even get 30%, it\u2019s not just that she came in third place, down by nine points, it\u2019s that 70% of the state voted against her! This is profound. It is a huge story, and it\u2019s being undersold and underreported today. The Drive-Bys are already salivating and panting — (panting) — about what the Clintons will do to rebound in New Hampshire. <\/p>\n

Now, ‘Among Democrats, according to the entrance polls, age appeared to be the salient divide: 57 percent of young voters ages 17 and 29 chose Obama — five times as many as Clinton, who depended on the support of older, married women. … Clinton drew 45 percent of voters age 65 and older, nearly three times as many as Obama and more than twice as many as John Edwards, the former senator from North Carolina. Still, Obama dominated Iowa\u2019s college towns, including Johnson County, home to the University of Iowa. His dominance among the youngest Democratic voters indicate that Clinton\u2019s gender-based appeals may have backfired among younger women.\u2019 I don\u2019t know if it was gender based or whatever backfired, she\u2019s just not likable. Here\u2019s the thing you gotta understand. Hillary went to Iowa. The more up close people see this woman, the more they reject her. When she doesn\u2019t speak, her poll numbers stay pretty steady, maybe even go up. It\u2019s when she starts opening up and speaking that her poll numbers traditionally have started to inch and creep down. She was in and all over this state, and the personal contact didn\u2019t work. I maintain to you that the same thing happened with her husband, she started that tailspin when her husband got off the airplane, started making these three-hour speeches about himself. He does not end up helping in any way, shape, manner, or form. <\/p>\n

Now, here\u2019s the actual breakdown of voters. On the Democrat side, 57% male, 43% female. On the Republican side, 56% female, 44% Republican. By the way, everybody\u2019s talking, ‘Whoa, it was a record Democrat turnout. Wow, wow.\u2019 It was. And the Drive-Bys say, ‘This election is over, the election in November is over, why, look at this turnout, why, they\u2019re far more energized.\u2019 Republican turnout was a record last night, too, at least it was up over the last two cauci. You have to remember here, folks, Iowa is a liberal state, and so is New Hampshire. So to sit there and gauge Republican turnout versus Democrat turnout and project that to November, once again wishful thinking. Seventeen to 24 demographics, 7% Republican, 17% Democrat. Twenty-five to 29, 2% Republican, 5% Democrat. Thirty to 44, it was 14 to 16, Republican-Democrat. Forty-five to 59, 36 Republican and 28% Democrat. People that were older than 65, it was 30% Republican and 24% Democrat. In a race, you break it down that way, 99% of the Republicans were white, 94% of the Democrats were white, 3% were black. So it was interesting. Huckabee got only 14% of the non-evangelical vote. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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