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RUSH: The Associated Press ran a story, this was September 20th, Saturday morning, of all times to run this and of all premises to do a poll on. ”Racial Views Steer Some White Democrats Away from Obama\u2019 — Deep-seated racial misgivings could cost Barack Obama the White House if the election is close, according to an AP-Yahoo News poll that found one-third of white Democrats harbor negative views toward blacks — many calling them ‘lazy,\u2019 ‘violent\u2019 or responsible for their own troubles. The poll, conducted with Stanford University, suggests that the percentage of voters who may turn away from Obama because of his race could easily be larger than the final difference between the candidates in 2004 — about two and one-half percentage points.\u2019 They go on to say it might be as high as six percentage points. Now, ladies and gentlemen, I saw this and it repulsed me. I don\u2019t care who it is, Democrats, Republicans, for AP to go out there on the premise — they\u2019re setting the table. If Obama loses, it has to be racism. <\/p>\n

What\u2019s fascinating about this is they\u2019re setting it up that it will be white Democrat racists. Now, who are these white Democrat racists? Well, they\u2019re blue-collar workers, they are largely rural, some live in Pennsylvania, some live in Ohio, some live in Texas, some live in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama. These are the Democrats that the Obama types are embarrassed to have in the same party. These are the bitter clingers. I found it fascinating to see how the media are virtually unanimous now in reporting how middle American Democrats are racists. Isn\u2019t this exactly what Obama was intimating when he was talking to his millionaire buddies in San Francisco? The media and Obama, now through the media, are trying to win the presidency by labeling union members as racists. What\u2019s the strategery here? What in the world is the strategery? Why didn\u2019t they do a poll of Republican blue-collar workers and call them racists? Well, if they\u2019d have done that, they would have united the Republican base even more. I think what they\u2019re trying to do is shame these Democrats. ‘We know you\u2019re racists. We know you hicks, even though you\u2019re Democrats, we know you\u2019re racists and we dare you not to be in this election.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Now, this is Ron Fournier and his gang at AP. Maybe they could be a little more specific, like exactly who in the Democrat Party is racist. Tell us, media. Tell us, Obama, who exactly are you talking about here? I think if you come to the defense of working Democrats and Democrats in middle America, that would be a — they\u2019re not doing that. The Democrats always came to the defense of working Democrats, Democrats in middle America. Biden\u2019s out there flapping his gums about middle America and the middle class and so forth, and the Democrats have just run a poll — well, AP, Democrats, not much difference — saying a third of them are racists. Now, I think this is outrageous. This is prejudice, and this is bigotry on the part of the Drive-By Media to even come up with this premise. I\u2019ll tell you, if I were one of you blue-collar white union member Democrats, you\u2019ve gotta look at this poll as Obama and the Associated Press identifying you as bigots. You\u2019re the reason he\u2019s not going to win. They\u2019re calling you racist. They\u2019re not calling Republicans racist.<\/p>\n

They didn\u2019t do a poll on Republicans bigots and racists. They did a poll on Democrat racists and bigots and they found a whole lot of you. They found enough of you that you could screw the election, you could screw Obama out of winning the election. If Obama loses, do you understand what AP and Obama have just said, it\u2019s going to be you Democrats, you racist, blue-collar, rural union member Democrats are being set up as the explanation for Barry Obama losing the election. I just find this amazing. This is a complete setup. This is a complete setup and an attempt to shame, because if Obama loses we\u2019re going to be told it\u2019s time for a national reexamination of who and what we are. I see this coming. I can just see it. They will rewrite the outcome not as a difference of policy and experience, but racism winning out over hope and change. Oh, America, we\u2019re still mired in the muck of slavery. We haven\u2019t changed at all. We still suck as a nation. This, folks, is as grotesque as it gets. Meanwhile, whites will not be voting 95% for McCain. Blacks will be voting 95% for Obama. And, of course, when you look at this poll and you read the whole thing, the only reason this could possibly be a close election is race. Obama is not flawed, his radicalism is not flawed, his campaign\u2019s not flawed. No, no, no, no. His own racism and comments in San Francisco of course are ignored. His racist appeals to Hispanics, those are ignored. His sexist approach to Hillary and Palin. But if he loses, it\u2019s only because we\u2019re such a racist country, and we\u2019re going to have to reexamine who we are and what we are. <\/p>\n

Now, the temptation here may be to demean white Democrats. That would require accepting the nefarious premise of this entire disgusting media enterprise. What they\u2019re saying is that blue-collar middle class Democrats, the more moderate or conservative part of the Democrat Party, they were the Reagan Democrats, are a bunch of racists. This is the liberal media turning on blue-collar union members and the like, the very people Obama speared in San Francisco, trying to shame them into not being racists and then if Barry loses, again, it\u2019s the country\u2019s fault. It\u2019s not because Obama\u2019s an empty suit, it\u2019s not because Obama\u2019s unqualified, it\u2019s not because we can\u2019t afford Obama, has nothing to do with Obama and his policies, his brilliance. No. It will all be because of race and the media will say we knew it, there hasn\u2019t been any changes whatsoever. This country may as well be back in the 1800s. I can hear it all.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: This poll, the AP\/Yahoo poll, used the unique methodology of Knowledge Networks, Menlo Park, California, firm, that interviews people online after randomly selecting and screening them over the phone. That way they get anonymity and all this sort of thing. A lot of the people at Knowledge Networks are people who have been contributors to the John Edwards campaign, the John Kerry campaign, it\u2019s a bunch of Democrats, it looks like, that are doing this. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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