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Nov. 7, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 7, 2006, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
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Lots of weird stuff going on out there today, folks.
Matt Drudge just uh flashed me and said that uh already some phony exit polls are being posted at places on the uh internet.
There are no exit polls for house races, folks, so just so you know.
There are exit polls for the uh races in the Senate and the uh and the governorships that are up.
But we've been told that the exit poll uh participants, uh the people mining the data are in this quarantine room with no means of communicating to anybody until 5 p.m. this afternoon.
Uh I'm getting emails from people all over the place with reports of fraud and and curious uh goings on in their places of polling.
Uh get this.
Uh one of the one of the fun things I've been doing today is visiting Democrat blogs and Democrat websites and went to the uh Democrat Underground.
They are worrying, uh worrying that the Republicans have actually rigged voting machines today in favor of Democrats, so that the Republicans can then invalidate Democrat victories as stolen, which would keep the Republicans in power.
The paranoia of these people is breathtaking.
So the Republicans, Carl Rov and uh and the gang have insured Democrats will win by virtue of fraud, because they've they've screwed the with the machines, and uh this will invalidate uh Democrat victories.
Have you seen this in New York?
New York plans to make gender a personal choice, separating anatomy from what it means to be a man or a woman.
New York City is moving forward with a plan to let people alter the sex on their birth certificate, even if they've not had say an adenicomy or choppaticophony, uh any any kind of sex change surgery.
You just you if you if you want your birth certificate to say you're a female when you're a man, you can do it.
In New York, under the rule being considered by the city's Board of Health, which is likely to be adopted soon.
People born in the city would be able to uh change the documented sex on their birth certificates by providing affidavit affidavits from a doctor and a mental health professional uh laying out why their patients should be considered members of the opposite sex and asserting that their proposed change would be permanent.
Applicants would have uh have to have changed their name and shown that they had lived in their adopted gender for at least two years, but there would be no explicit medical requirements.
You know who this is victory for is the male lesbians in uh in in New York.
Um But there's always a catch to this stuff, and that is you have to live in your adopt.
You have to live in your adopted gender for what?
Uh at least two years, and then promise that it's permanent.
But there's no um sex change required.
If approved, the uh new rule would put New York at the forefront of efforts to redefine gender.
Well, now I know this sounds funny, but once you start letting people redefine marriage, and once you start letting people redefine family, who's to say we can't redefine anything?
I mean, I I know some people who would like to change their uh ident identity to dog.
Uh get kicked around so much.
Uh some people would like to where where does this insanity stop?
You no, you can't be a boy-girl at the same time.
You you you well, I haven't read it.
Uh I let me see.
They should not change the sex at birth, which is a factual record, said Dr. Arthur Zittran, a midtown shrink, who was on the panel of transgender experts convened by the city.
If they wanted to change the gender for all the compelling reasons that they've given, it should be done perhaps with an asterisk.
So uh Yeah, Bush Bush could go to New York.
Well, you have to live in New York to do that.
But Bush could move to New York, change his gender, become the first female president.
By the way, you see, Bill Clinton was in uh in Maryland last night campaigning for Ben Carton.
And it's interesting, the first black president is in Maryland campaigning against the black candidate for Senate in uh uh in that in that state.
Uh I have uh another note from a friend, and I'm I must tell you, I've I've I've gotten a little frustrated, just mildly frustrated today because, and I guess it's understandable, but I'm getting a lot of fear-based emails uh from friends and uh uh pessimistic emails.
Here's one.
I'm telling you, Rush, it doesn't matter if we win or lose.
The Democrats are going to be intolerable anyway.
If we win, we're gonna see a bitterness that will eclipse both 2000 and 2004 because they believe there's no way they can legitimately lose.
So they'll either be a furious and making accusations of fraud, or B completely and finally alienated, realizing it really isn't their country anymore.
They'll be so victorious it's hard telling what they do.
If they win, even by just a little, they'll take it as a mandate to crucify Bush and other Republicans, and they'll do it no matter what Pelosi says.
Uh you know, and I that there's I have predicted that.
I mean, I think there's some sense that the the Democrats have a very high bar to reach today.
They have to do better than they have projected in order for them to actually feel like this is a big sweep.
If they underperform based on their own expectations, uh then they're they're gonna have some things to answer for in internally, but they probably won't do that.
Why should they start examining themselves now uh whether they win uh or lose?
But if they do lose, it is gonna be brutal out there.
It is it is it is going to be brutal.
Now here's another email.
Hey Rush, I just voted.
I have no hope that a Republican will ever again win in my state of Illinois or anywhere else.
We had the new electronic ballots.
I can see how the Democrats just took over the voting and why they've been so confident.
Number one, it was a complicated process for dumb people, so they needed help for all of it.
And those election judges are going to actually be doing the voting for these people that don't understand these electronic ballots.
At the end of the process, it said ballot not accepted or accepted.
So when it's not accepted, the election judges will come in, correct the ballot, and that'll take away all those thrown-out votes of the past.
Therefore, the dumb Democrats' votes will now count.
That means uh of over the 100,000 ballots usually thrown out in Chicago, they will now all count, and most all of those ballots, all those dummies will now count.
And usually the dummies are the Democrat blocked voting group.
This will be all over the USA, and you can kiss the big states goodbye to Republicans.
I've you know, th let me tell you there's some some thing I heard something last night that I really caused a red flag.
Uh the Secretary of State in the state of Tennessee announced that 40% of the projected voters had already voted by early and absentee voting.
Something like uh 890,000 of 1.9 million people voted early, and they voted during a time when Harold Ford was up in the polls.
There's a lot of early voting and a lot of, in fact, in uh in Ohio, in Cuyahoga County and some other counties, they're gonna go ahead and process these early absentee votes tonight rather than wait because there are so many of them.
I'm getting reports from all over the country, high turnout in various places, low turnout in uh in others.
Turnout where I live, folks, is is uh tiny.
Uh and I have asked staff members here how the turnout was when they said tiny as well, zipped in, zipped out, no lines, hardly anybody at all.
Not true in Missouri, projecting 70% uh voter turnout in uh in the state of Missouri, and uh I guess uh voting is heavy now in St. Louis County.
Uh and this early voting, you you know, this is a is an outgrowth of the Florida aftermath in 2000, where the the case was made that uh Democrats were defrauded, that Republicans in three Democrat-run counties, Palm Beach, Miami Dade, and Broward, were uh disenfranchised, and particularly black voters in in uh in Miami-Dade County, they were disenfranchised, or Republicans screwed them.
And so to counter that, we're gonna have early voting.
Now, this early voting, I mean, I you know, the election day is election day for a reason.
Why why do we not let people early vote in July?
Why do we just not let them vote in August?
What the let them vote six months before the election.
I mean, what's once you start deviating, where does it stop?
And the earlier you vote, uh the uh the greater the chance for fraud.
And you know what the Democrats are doing on and I hope the Republicans are engaged in the same thing, I assume they are, but Democrats go into these places where they think their voters are, like uh nursing homes and uh uh other other places where groups of uh people traditionally thought to be Democrats are just go in there with these early voter ballots and say, Hi, Maud, I'm here to help you vote early.
Wonderful, wonderful.
Well, I'm so happy they see you.
And they fill out what they think Maud would do.
Tell Maud she's voted.
Maud feels patriotic, has no idea how she voted, and the ballot gets turned in.
We've got the fraud in St. Louis with thirty-five thousand fraudulent registrations from that acorn group.
So it's gonna be um it's gonna be fascinating.
Regardless, the Democrats for all their confidence out there today, folks, uh are uh do not appear to let the democratic process take place with confidence.
They don't trust it.
They have to this.
I'm getting reports of some of the most outrageous stuff in the world going on in some Philadelphia uh precincts.
I'm not gonna give you details until I can uh can uh can for confirm it.
Uh but and this is not uncommon.
I mean, there's you know, games are played with the electoral process at all times.
I just find the Democrats here so confident and so eager and so I mean it's it's it's it's Christmas Eve last night.
This is Christmas Day, but they're waiting for Sandy Claus to come down the chimney today.
Uh, even have a sound bite of them talking about the election in this way.
But they're not gonna they don't trust the electoral process.
Uh and why should they?
It's uh it's not gone in their favor for a long time, other than two presidential races.
All right, a quick time out.
Uh, we'll be back lots more in all the various stacks of stuff.
We've got actually a couple fascinating pieces.
Michael Kinsley writing in the Washington Post really rips Nancy Pelosi and her whole platform.
Uh uh we've got uh a great piece.
I wish this piece would have come out earlier, uh a Democrat writing about the uh Iraq war and how it is the single most important issue, and how it's making him vote Republican.
Uh and it scares him uh that so many Democrats and so many people in this country do not understand the threat that we face.
It's nothing you haven't heard before, so it's interesting coming from a uh Democrat.
Lots of interesting stuff, so sit tight, we'll come back and continue right after this.
All right, let's go to the audio sound bites, ladies and gentlemen, as the Democrats in the drive by media start early today with fraud allegations.
They're throwing out all kinds of them, hoping that uh something sticks.
They started last night, they've continued today.
They're accusing people of voter suppression, intimidation, robocalls, voting machines rigged, all the way as the evil GOP is cheating.
Here's a montage of various drive-by media personalities.
We now have reports of voting problems in Utah, Florida, Indiana, and Ohio because of these electronic voting machines.
They have frazzled voters.
Stop the t I have to remain re queue this thing to the top.
I asked this question yesterday.
Have you noticed that the people who demanded upgrading voter technology after Florida 2000 are the ones complaining about it now?
They're the ones who say, hey, our people are too stupid to use butterfly ballots.
Our people can't figure out these paper ballots down here.
We need up tick.
So the federal government spent four billion dollars on election reform voting machines.
Now all of a sudden that's the problem.
No matter what you give liberals, it's not enough.
They are never ever happy.
But once again, I think all of this is predicated on the fact that they don't trust the electronic process and they are not that confident today, folks.
In fact, Adam Nagurney and the New York Times, story today for Democrats, even again may feel like a failure.
Details coming up.
Here's this bite now in entirety.
We now have reports of voting problems in Utah, Florida, Indiana, and Ohio because of these electronic Voting machines.
They have frazzled voters.
The web campaign says it has documented dozens of calls in which they were told that if they tried to vote tomorrow, they would be arrested.
These tricks they were playing forever against black communities.
Scare the hell out of people.
The macackins always go Democrat.
Of course, Alan, we're trying to suppress them.
The web campaign charging that Republicans are behind voter suppression efforts trying to keep people from voting.
I'm really worried.
There could be irregularities, the voting machines, concerned about voting irregularities.
We are worried.
We've seen these irregularities already.
We're worried about voter suppression.
lot of voter irregularities voting irregularities i wouldn't trust one of these electronic voting machines that don't have a record any further than i There have been problems in some key districts with those new electronic voting machines.
Some of the machines went on the fritz, and they had to resort to paper ballots.
All right, all of this talk about voter suppression, that goes back so that that is, I'm telling you, the that's playing the race card, folks, make no mistake about it.
They did it in Florida 2000.
They tried again in 2002 during the midterms there.
Uh and they do it every election that Republicans, especially in these states like Virginia, Tennessee, and place like that, they're trying to suppress the black vote.
Uh and and making phone calls to people, tell them they vote tomorrow, they'll be arrested.
What a cool practical joke.
I mean, just as a practical joke, I well uh Snerdley is asking me who is that stupid that they would believe somebody.
Democrat voters!
This is the whole point that no snerdley doesn't think they can be that stupid.
I do.
Somebody's reporting it.
Look, I had uh I had a uh uh uh uh thing sent to me yesterday that was a I mean it was a it was it looked as legitimate as anything I've ever seen for the AP Newswire.
And it said that the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals had responded favorably to a Democrat National Committee request that Republicans vote today and Democrats vote tomorrow.
It was all over the internet, and there were some people buying into it.
I saw it on a thread where some this is outrageous!
You've got to get this to talk radio.
And I I I sent it to some friends that said, This cannot be, but they're for people that bought this.
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals supposedly ruled yesterday, and they quoted Howard Dean as saying, This is fabulous.
And the Republicans were opposed to it because it was a Democrat trick that would actually allow Democrats to vote for two days, since they'd also cheat and vote on test.
This stuff is just uh it's rampant.
Now, here is uh just to take you back in time, just show you how this in at least in its modern incarnation got started.
This is November 2000, the Today Show co-host Matt Wauer interviewing Robert Wexler, uh Democratic congressman from down here in Boca Raton.
Lauer says, wasn't that ballot also approved by both parties?
This is a butterfly ballot uh controversy.
The actual punch holes are not there, so you wouldn't know that Al Gore's name, while it appears second on the ballot, is actually third in terms of where the punch number appears when you put it in the machine.
We have a tremendous problem here that goes to the heart of who actually won the presidential race in Florida.
Now, uh both parties, in fact, the the the ballot that he's talking about was designed by a Democrat election supervisor whose name was Teresa Le Poor, and it was sent out to every voter, and it was it was uh approved by by both parties.
What happened was if you've forgotten, is that some Florida Democratic voters, Jewish voters, ended up voting for Pat Buchanan by mistake, and that just sent everybody into a tizzy because they knew that wouldn't be the case.
So they started blaming it on the ballot, and that started this whole call for well, we got to modernize this.
This is just outrageous.
So this has become a standard part of election day now.
Democrats accusing Republicans of suppressing suppressing the vote uh when what has been going on for the past year by Democrats in uh conjunction with the drive-by media.
They have been trying to suppress and depress the Republican vote for all six months now, at least, back in just seconds.
This vote suppression thing is really a joke, folks.
The Democrats have been engaged in that uh for six months.
What was the whole argument and and uh campaign against Tom Delay?
What was the Mark Foley circumstance?
What was this uh this preacher?
Uh what's his name?
Um Haggard uh out in Colorado.
By the way, the vote turnout in that district where that church is sky high.
Uh it it maybe the attack on him is backfired or what have you.
What was that, if not especially the Foley thing?
If if if that wasn't voter suppression, what the hell is?
I mean, that's been a technique and a tactic.
Folk, I am telling you, I want you to understand something.
Democrats do not trust the democratic process.
And when you look at recent elections, why should they?
The difference is that when they don't trust it, when they don't trust you to vote for them, they will do what they have to do to rig the circumstance, to rig the situation.
And even beyond that, as I mentioned yesterday, and this is even it's hard to say it's more hideous, but it is it is uh it's just as hideous.
Uh you know, we well, I on this program have always told you what my objective is when it comes to the political aspects of this program.
I believe that the people in a representative republic, the people are the power.
Uh and and the objective here is to create as many informed participating people in the political arena of ideas as possible.
Have them motivated because of their uh their passion uh and uh and excitement to go vote and participate in this whole process.
Because those produ that produces legitimate victory and it produces mandates.
Well, the Democrats have a plan to counter this, but their plan also is to subvert, if you will, the Democrat process.
When they lose election, why do you think they want control of all these institutions?
The judiciary, the public education system, uh uh the bureaucracies uh at so many cabinet level departments of the government, State Department, the Pentagon, and this sort of thing.
Because in when they control the at higher education as well, when they control these institutions, they can subvert the will of the people.
Judges become politicians ruling in favor of their own political outcome preferences and so forth, rather than on the basis of the law, which is why judicial reform has always been such a big thing to those of us who are conservatives.
So if they can't subvert the electoral process at the polling place, they will do it with their control of institutions.
And that uh we we we see that uh constantly.
Uh they don't trust the Democrat process.
They'll accept it when they win, when it produces power for them.
But when it doesn't, uh they thwart it.
Uh every turn, every which way they can.
And the media, the drive-by media, you'd have to include them as one of those institutions.
Do you realize Dan Rather was on TV in North Carolina today, still maintaining that the uh Texas Air National Guard story that he ran on Bush is true, and that the documents were accurate.
Still maintaining this.
Uh and he got some sort of a prize, a Peabody prize or whatever at some point they circle the wagons around him.
So controlling the institutions.
I mean, this has been uh I I've never seen it like this in my life, folks.
Now, I I know it has been in uh in all of American history, go back to the Civil War days and the founding of the country journalism was uh far different, although it it it uh it was just as Rybald and it was just as cutting and it was just as uh over the top, but there was balance.
I mean, in uh you in in certain cities you had, you know, a Democrat paper and a Republican paper, and they would cover the same event in two totally different ways on the front page, but uh that's that's not the case here.
It is now when you've got the alternative media, talk radio, the blogosphere, internet, um uh and and conservative publications.
But these people, I've never seen it this way.
I've never seen the so-called mainstream media choose up sides so obviously and without uh any shame as uh as in this election cycle, and perhaps the last one as well, but this one uh succeeds the previous in terms of outrageousness.
Uh and so that is an institution, too, that you would have to include in these list of institutions that the liberals seek to control to thwart the Democrat process.
I consider the use of all these polls never ending.
Every day we got a new poll, sometimes too, for a year.
And the polls don't need don't mean anything.
They can't possibly.
A poll in July is worthless in terms of actually forecasting the result, but it is very valuable if you can use it to influence public opinion in your favor, if you can use the poll to suppress and depress people who are opposite you politically, and that's what those polls have been used for.
And this is nothing new in the terms of the polling use.
It's uh it's it's just a a new way of supposedly making news and reporting it as some earth-shattering new event or occurrence.
Uh but I just on election day like this, all these charges of suppression.
I wouldn't be surprised.
If some of these phone calls that if if they're happening, some of these phone calls to people say you're gonna get arrested if you go vote today.
Still think it's funny.
Sorry.
I wish I'd thought of it.
But I'm a I'm a practical joker from way back.
I'm just teasing here, folks, about actually doing it, but uh you get a phone call.
Let's say it's yesterday, and uh you're sitting home mining your own business, the phone rings, hello, uh hi.
This is uh calling from the so-and-so Republican campaign.
Just want to warn you that if you attempt to go vote tomorrow, you will be arrested.
Uh I doubt that Republicans are making those calls.
If those calls are being made, I think the Democrats are probably the ones making them, just so they can raise the issue.
Just so they can get their uh willing accomplices in the drive-by media to start talking about all these voter suppression techniques.
But when you boil it all down, it boils down, they don't trust the Democrat process.
What happened to all this confidence?
What happened to all this news that there were going to be a giant blue wave sweeping America and Democrats are going to win 40 seats in the House.
They're going to take back the Senate and they're going to get out of a row.
What happened to all that?
I mean, if the polls give you that kind of confidence, why not trust it?
Can't afford to trust it.
Democratic process hasn't been kind to uh Democrats.
Uh Democrats are also upset.
Their drive to get illegal aliens and ex-felons to vote in this election failed in most places.
They still get the dead vote.
I know that uh dead voters are registered four to one.
Democrat.
And if you think I'm making this up, if you think I'm joking about this, Missouri is expecting a 70% turnout today at the polls.
In Missouri, it has been learned there are 10,520 dead people still registered to vote.
This is from Gateway Pundit, the blog Gateway Pundit.
500 or 10,520 dead people still registered to vote.
35,000 questionable acorn registration forms.
Uh that 70% turnout could go even higher when you count 10,000 five hundred and twenty dead people still on the voter roll.
And then anybody want to tell I'll bet anybody, certainly I'll bet you a buck, that something happens in the city of St. Louis.
And it and it goes something, somebody's going to allege fraud.
They got to keep the polls open to like midnight tonight or 10 o'clock, because some people weren't allowed to vote or what have you.
St. Louis, very, very Democrat, a dying Democrat city in some people's uh minds.
Uh St. Louis County voter turnout, they're very heavy today.
Amendment two is driving this, I think, along the talent and Cascal race and the uh uh sure there's walking around money being tossed around uh uh all over the place.
And not that hard to get people from East St. Louis across the bridge to vote, uh especially if you can intimidate voter officials.
And so I i it it's it's it's laughable to me when I when I when I hear all this about Republican efforts to cheat.
Here is Howard Dean, by the way.
Uh going back to December of 2003, uh he's doing a town meeting somewhere, and a female audience member says, I heard a rumor, and I want to know if it's true about the voting, the actual computerized voting, and I'm really nervous about it.
Can you address that, Dr. Dean?
The head of a company called Debo that makes voting machines sent around a letter in Ohio promising to do, quote, whatever it takes to get this president elected in Ohio.
It doesn't give you a lot of confidence in the electoral process.
And that that's all it took, and for from from from then till now, the voting machine has been rigged in favor of Republicans.
It was Democrats who wanted and demanded an upgrade in voter technology after Florida 2000.
Then uh June of 4th of 2004, uh John Kerry, the haughty uh former Vietnam veteran, uh, was on C-span.
I have almost two thousand lawyers already who've been put together.
We have a comprehensive legal team that is looking right now at districts in America where voters are harassed, where they are prevented from registering, districts where people who are registered are purged from the polls and told the day they arrive, thinking they're registered, they're no longer registered.
We're going to be looking at voting machines.
We're looking at the entire process to guarantee that never again in this country do we have a situation like we had in the year 2000.
Uh-huh.
See, you see, it's a it's a standard technique.
And it's Democrats who raise the charges.
I think it's Democrats out there making these phone calls, allowing them to make these charges.
Um by the way, uh one observation of the 10,520 dead people in Missouri.
Uh the Democrats are probably thinking that it's okay for them to vote because if we had embryonic stem cell research, they wouldn't be dead.
We would have found cures for whatever ailed them and they'd still be alive, so we ought to let them vote anyway.
That's the kind of thinking that goes on here.
Also, uh, I don't know if it's still the case.
I read earlier today that the telephones at the George Allen for Senate headquarters in Virginia were out.
Nobody knew why.
Nobody they were looking into it, and they gave an alternative number.
But it means that the Allen for Senate campaign people can't make phone calls today to get out their vote, so we're gonna help them here.
If you're uh in Virginia, you know that this is a crucial Senate seat for Republicans, and the uh Allen, if you're if I don't know if you why you'd be waiting for a phone call anyway, but uh understand that the there's something odd that has happened.
It's too soon to accuse or allege anything here, but it does seem it does seem odd.
Then up the road in New Jersey, last night some pranksters chain locked the door to Tom Cain Jr.'s headquarters.
Uh what we don't know is whether Cain's supporters did that or whether uh Meninda's supporters did.
Be right back after this, stay with us.
Well, folks, I'm in a giddy mood today.
See, I'm I'm laughing at everything.
I probably shouldn't laugh at this.
News uh news just in from uh Kentucky poll worker was arrested today, charged with assault and interfering with an election for allegedly choking a voter and pushing the voter out the door, said an official.
Election officials call the police.
The voter wanted to file charges, said Paula McCraney, a spokeswoman for the Jefferson County, Kentucky clerk.
This is about tops off the day, McCrany said.
Wasn't immediately clear what sparked the altercation.
The name of the poll worker was not released, and a Louisville police spokesman did not immediately return calls seeking comment.
By the way, I erred a moment ago, I said Dan Rather was on TV in Raleigh.
I made a mistake.
He was on our radio station, our EIB affiliate in Raleigh, WPTF, on the uh morning show.
Uh, and he was questioned about this and stood by the accuracy of the whole Bush National Guard story.
So they're choking voters in Kentucky now.
This and it's not even one o'clock in the afternoon, Eastern time.
Uh Bob in Niles, Michigan.
Let's squeeze some phone calls in here.
Welcome to the program, sir.
What nice to talk to you.
Thank you.
Listen, I want to make a comment about uh you talked earlier about the people wanting to uh on paper change their sex without physically doing it.
And I think it might be just a ploy to backdoor uh legalizing gay marriage.
Oh, that's probably true.
It's probably true.
I mean, if folks, if you if you if you missed this, uh in New York, this in the New York Times today, s uh separating anatomy from what it means to be a man or a woman.
The New York City uh well, New York City is is moving forward with a plan to let people alter the sex on their birth certificate, even if they've not had sex change surgery.
Applicants would have to have changed their name and shown that they had lived in their adopted gender for at least two years.
But there would be uh no explicit medical uh requirements.
If approved, the new rule would put New York at the forefront of efforts to redefine gender.
Uh And uh so uh it it's probably a decent conclusion.
This is this is one way to advance gay marriage.
You say, oh marriage is restricted to a man and a woman, and so these two guys show up and get married, one of them is a foreman on it, it says he wants to be a woman on his birth certificate.
Uh what do you do if New York City has uh has legalized this?
John in Hamilton County, Indiana.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hi.
Pete Manning for MVP Bedicks Rush.
Hey, um, just a quick anecdote from uh the most Republican county in the country, certainly one of them.
I went to the polling place this morning at 6 a.m.
And I was the third person in line to vote, and we have touch screen voting machines, and the two voting machines were not operable.
There was fortunately, and I asked for a paper ballot, um, but there was a third voting machine for handicapped voters.
I guess it didn't say for Democrats only.
It wouldn't matter.
There aren't very many of them.
They're kind of like uh a nine.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, you can't make fun of the handicapped in this country.
My wife would say not on this show, sir.
It's not gonna happen.
But anyway, my point is if there's the Republicans just pressed around vote in Hamilton County, Indiana.
Long story short, my wife followed me up there later.
The machines were working fine.
Well, of course, Republicans suppressing their own vote.
Well, this would go back to what I read on the Democrat Underground uh uh earlier today.
Democrat Underground worries that the GOP is actually rigging voting machines in favor of Democrats so that Republicans can then invalidate Democrat victories as stolen, keeping the Republicans in power.
So, according to the Wizards at Democrat Underground, this makes total sense.
Republicans suppressing their own vote uh in uh in uh Hamilton County, uh, Indiana.
Uh Adam Nagurney, New York Times today, for Democrats, even a gain may feel like a failure.
For a combination of reasons, increasingly bullish prognostications by independent handicappers, galloping optimism by Democratic leaders and bloggers, and polls that promise a Democrat blowout, expectations for the party have soared into the stratosphere.
Democrats are widely expected to take the House, and by a significant margin, perhaps the Senate as well, while capturing a majority of governorships and legislatures.
Charlie Cook, the analyst who is one of uh Washington's chief setters of expectations, said in an email message on Monday he was dropping the words possibly more from his house prediction of 20 to 35, possibly more.
Two years ago, winning 14 seats in the House would have been a pipe dream, said Matt Bennett, a founder of third-way moderate democrat organization.
Yeah, yeah, no such thing.
Now, Mr. Bennett said uh failure to win the House, even by one seat, would send Democrats diving under their beds, not to mention what it might do to all the pundits.
It would be crushing, it would be extremely difficult.
Charlie Cook put it more succinctly.
I think you'd see a Jim Jones situation, it would be a mass suicide.
Now, who first raised this?
Who this is in the New York Times today.
They're lowering expectations.
They're all of a sudden talking about what happens if Democrats lose.
I myself raised this three weeks ago.
What happens if they lose?
Nobody's talking about what happens if they lose.
They've set their bar so high.
What will be the outcome if they lose?
Well, I mean, we're getting a taste of it now.
They're already accusing Republicans of rigging the election.
If they lose this, folks, if they don't, if they don't perform to their expectations, I'm telling you, you think that they have gone berserk and wacko and have descended to the early stages of utter madness now.
You haven't seen anything yet.
We uh will be talking to the chairman of Republican National Committee at the top of the next hour.
Mere Moments from right now.
Uh that would be Ken Melman.
We'll chat him up for a while when we get back here on the EIB network.
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