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RUSH: No, no, no. I am not trying to be negative. Folks, can we get a grip here? When I said that I don\u2019t know just to what extent the low-information crowd\u2019s gonna go, “Oh, wow, oh, wow, did you hear what Obama said? Why, why, he said even these guys that don\u2019t want him around, they all support him. Oh, man, I gotta vote.” I\u2019m not trying to be negative about this. I just don\u2019t buy the media trend, or the soap opera storyline every day. And the media soap opera storyline is that Obama stepped in it big with that quote. And maybe he did. <\/p>\n

Now, there\u2019s also a reality here. In terms of these elections in November, we don\u2019t need every low-information voter to switch. We don\u2019t need every black voter to either stay home or change their vote. We just need a couple percent in either category. And I know that over the summer, one of the points the Republicans were making, you know, Obama would go out there and try to inoculate the Democrats by saying that he wasn\u2019t on the ballot and so he wasn\u2019t a factor in the election. Don\u2019t hold it against the Democrats; he\u2019s not on the ballot.<\/p>\n

Now, the Republicans, a couple of them who are still in the game, had a perfectly good reply. They said, “You may not be on the ballot, but your agenda is, because these are the people that carry your water.” Bingo. That was exactly true this past summer, and it remains true. Now, what Obama did was come along and confirm that. He just confirmed that all of these incumbent Democrats running for reelection are essentially lying in their campaigns. That\u2019s what he\u2019s basically accused them of. He didn\u2019t come close to using words like that, but they\u2019re out there distancing themselves. <\/line><\/p>\n

They\u2019re telling voters that they disagree on the travel ban. You got all kinds of people flip-flopping on that travel ban from Africa. Yeah, Kay Hagan. She\u2019s doing a flip-flop. Governor Cuomo in New York has flip-flopped on the travel ban. Democrats left and right are flip-flopping on the travel ban from Africa. (interruption) They\u2019re all seeing the polls, exactly right. And so they are distancing themselves in their campaign, specifically from the Obama agenda. He goes on the radio yesterday (paraphrasing), “Hey, these are my henchmen. These are the people who made what I do possible. They voted for all this stuff.” That\u2019s damaging. <\/p>\n

Maybe I ought to not share my instinctive reaction all the time, \u2019cause I\u2019m not trying to say this is a negative, and I\u2019m not trying to deny anybody — if you want to get all excited about it, go do it. It certainly doesn\u2019t help. The only thing I\u2019m saying, I don\u2019t know how really destructive a comment it was, because, after all, we\u2019re dealing with the low-information crowd to begin with here. And we\u2019re dealing with a midterm turnout, as opposed to a presidential year turnout. <\/p>\n

Look, the bottom line is, I said earlier this year that I thought this was gonna be a wave election. And I\u2019ll say here again today, if the election were today, I don\u2019t think anybody has any idea how bad it\u2019s gonna be for the Democrats. I don\u2019t think the polls are telling anywhere near the full story about just how many people are dispirited, fed up, angry, no longer buying the Obama magic, however you want to characterize it. <\/p>\n

But it\u2019s all gonna depend on how many of those people actually vote and then, we must be honest, you\u2019ve got to keep in mind here that whatever happens in this election, it\u2019s going to be a referendum on Obama. It is going to be a referendum on the Democrat Party. And it\u2019s going to be people showing up to vote, saying they\u2019re tired of it, and they don\u2019t like it, and they don\u2019t want any more of it. That\u2019s what this vote is going to be. Just like 2010 was. I think this has the potential to be just as big. We shall see. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Look, folks, I understand, I\u2019m not less than enthusiastic about prospects, fortunes here and so forth. I just got an e-mail, “Rush, even though you think it\u2019s gonna be a big election, you don\u2019t sound like you\u2019re all that hep to it.” Don\u2019t misunderstand, folks, I am excited about all this stuff being rejected. Part of me won\u2019t believe it \u2019til I see it, naturally. But I am thoroughly, thoroughly intrigued and on the precipice of being happy, ecstatic, if voters actually do reject this stuff.<\/p>\n

But I will say that there is something missing in this for me in terms of an opportunity. Maybe I\u2019m asking for too much. But it would really make me feel good if, as well as this stuff being rejected, the people voting against it knew why, rather than just being tired of it, rather than just being exhausted with it, or miserable or unhappy and just thinking we need a change. I would really, really love this to represent a factual, substantive rejection of liberalism, a factual, substantive rejection of Obamaism. Because that would mean that we\u2019re really on the way to turning things around and maybe building on something. <\/p>\n

\"original\"It\u2019s like I mentioned yesterday, I was playing golf Saturday and the guys I\u2019m with, “So, are we gonna win the Senate?” As though that\u2019s it. Winning the Senate is everything. And that, to me, is just a first step. What if we win it with people who are still not interested in fighting for it? But I\u2019m gonna stop there, because I don\u2019t want anybody — like that lady called yesterday and said that I\u2019m raining on her parade. I\u2019m not trying to do that at all. I just see a golden opportunity out there, that\u2019s all. It\u2019s huge. <\/line><\/p>\n

It is a terrific opportunity for the rejection of the status quo to mean something, something other than, “I just want a change.” Something other than, “We need to give the other guys a try, because these guys, it just isn\u2019t working.” I want voters to vote against it because they know why it isn\u2019t working. I know I\u2019m asking a lot. I would love it if people were rejecting this because they know it can\u2019t work. I would love it if people were gonna reject this because they\u2019ve finally been told, they\u2019ve been taught, they\u2019ve been informed, they\u2019ve learned, what have you, that this is going to fail every time they vote for it. (interruption) Right. I can dream, can\u2019t I? That\u2019s what should be happening here. <\/p>\n

But maybe I\u2019m asking for too much. Because winning is the big thing. You have to win elections before you can do anything else. But that oftentimes leads to pitfalls because sometimes just doing what you have to to win is a problem in and of itself. But as I say, I\u2019m gonna stop there because I don\u2019t want any of you to think that I am pessimistic or negative, \u2019cause I preach against that all the time, and I\u2019m none of that. I\u2019m guarded, because we\u2019re going on polls again, and until we actually have the results in here, it\u2019s wise, I think, to keep an open mind. <\/p>\n

At the same time, we can chronicle why this is happening. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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