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<\/p>\nRUSH: Allen, Texas. This is Kerry, and welcome. Great to have you, sir. What\u2019s up?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Rush, it\u2019s a pleasure to talk to you, and thank you for taking my call. I was wondering if there are any House races that may be in the Eastern Time Zone that may end and get called early that may give us a clue as to how the rest of the night may go.<\/p>\n
RUSH: That is really so hard. I mean, that would be a challenge to try to figure that out. A presidential race, if you announce before the Western states polls have closed, who you project to be the winner? Yeah, that could affect turnout. But you\u2019re asking me if…? Let\u2019s create a scenario. You\u2019re asking me that if the Republicans start showing up much better in the Eastern Time Zone House races than people think, what affect will that maybe have on West Coast states, in California in their House races? Is that what you\u2019re asking?<\/p>\n
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CALLER: Well, I\u2019m just asking if that might give those of us who are watching kind of a clue as to how the night could go. Say there\u2019s a surprise in a district, a flip that we weren\u2019t expecting or a hold that we weren\u2019t expecting.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, I\u2019ll give you one. Keep an eye on the Menendez Senate race in New Jersey. If the Republican wins there — and he could — then that\u2019s gonna cause some panic on the TV panelists that you see. Consequently, if Ted Cruz loses in Texas, then it could signal a nationwide Republican wipeout. Now, so say some of the experts. I think these races are all too different to start extrapolating, \u2019cause the people voting in Utah don\u2019t know what the people in New Jersey are doing, and the people in New York don\u2019t know what the people in Arizona are doing and vice-versa.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t know that any particular result is gonna affect the way people vote later in the day if you have a surprise in a particular district where it\u2019s thought to be a lock and the non-incumbent or out-of-power party wins. Like, the Democrats are thought to hold a certain district and the Republicans win it. It would shake up, guaranteed. I just can\u2019t give you which particular races would fit the category you are asking about. But you never know.<\/p>\n
You\u2019ve asked the question here and I\u2019ve got an hour and a half left in the program. I may be able to get an answer for you. If there are such races being watched, then for that purpose, then we\u2019ll find out. I saw Karl Rove earlier today. I didn\u2019t get a chance to listen to this. But he was on Fox this morning, and the chyron graphic said, “Karl Rove on what to look for tonight if Republicans are winning, what to look for tonight if the Democrats…”<\/p>\n
Apparently Rove was suggesting — and again, I didn\u2019t hear what he said — that if certain races are going a certain way, then you\u2019re gonna be able to tell whether or not the House will be kept by the Republicans or the Democrats are gonna win it. I just don\u2019t know what races he was citing and talking about. But that would tend to indicate such contests exist.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Okay. Folks, there are a couple things that I look for on Election Day to try to give me some kind of an idea how things are going, and when I hear that there are voting problems in Democrat states, then a little light goes off in my head that says, “Democrats are in trouble.” So there are problems in New Jersey, voting problems in Newark. Newark would be a hotbed voting location for, say, Robert Menendez, the incumbent Democrat.<\/p>\n
Whenever in Democrat states, Democrat districts, precincts, they start talking about voting machine problems or ballot problems or something, it usually means that somebody there thinks things aren\u2019t going well. Now, it\u2019s not always. You can\u2019t make book on it. But my experience is that it is more often than not in Democrat precincts and states, when they start complaining about voting problems.<\/p>\n
Like some people in New Jersey showed up at a place today and the polls were not open and the people were sent away, were not able to vote. It didn\u2019t open for 70 minutes after it was supposed to. Well, right there you\u2019ve got a built-in lawsuit if you need it.” When this stuff… When the Democrats start complaining of voting problems, voting irregularities, it means usually that things aren\u2019t going the way they think they were gonna go.<\/p>\n
Sadly, you can\u2019t make book on it, but that has been my experience, and I\u2019m not engaging here in any kind of false or phony optimism. I\u2019m not trying to play any mind games here at all. I\u2019m just sharing with you how I react to things when I see them like this, and it\u2019s born of intelligence guided by experience.<\/p>\n
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