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Nov. 7, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 7, 2006, Tuesday, Hour #2
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And we're back, ladies and gentlemen.
I am your real anchor man Rush Limboy here on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, the nation's most listened to radio talk show, over six hundred fabulous great radio stations, bringing truth, fun frolic frivolity, serious discussion of issues, all in one package to America.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program, eight hundred-two eight two-282, and the email address rush at EIBNet.com.
We welcome to uh the program the Chairman of Republican National Committee, Ken Melman.
Ken, uh uh thanks for taking some time with us today, because I know you have to be swamped into some specific things I want to ask you about based on events so far today.
Megadiddoes rush, great to be with you.
Thank you very much.
Just heard uh that lawyers with the Tennessee Democrat Party are gonna file suit early this afternoon asking that voting hours be extended due to reports of infrastructure problems.
This from a Democrat Party spokesman.
It looks like this may happen in uh Colorado and Pennsylvania.
The FBI has been called out in Virginia now over uh accusations that Republicans are trying to suppress the vote there.
This does not seem to be uh uh action that that that would that would uh equal a confident party, a Democrat Party confident of sweeping victory today.
Are you can you tell us anything about all this?
What's going on?
Well, one thing I can tell you is that this is part of the Democratic playbook.
You may remember in two thousand and four some news was made when a Democratic playbook was discovered which said, even if there's not fraud, you should allege that there is fraud or intimidation in order to try to gain attention.
And you may remember back in 04, it was the Democratic Party, which both in Ohio and Florida was stopped by court order from harassing vo uh from harassing volunteers and misleading voters.
And in fact, if you look rush at the whole country, we're seeing more problems on behalf of Democrats than on any of the alleged problems on behalf of Republicans.
In New Mexico, in Bernileo County, where Heather Wilson is running, uh a number of Republican precincts have run out of ballots.
Uh voters were told to leave and then return back later with an unspecified time and were told allegedly they were going to get a telephone call.
We know that there's a long history in Bernileo County of vote fraud that has unfortunately benefited Democrats, and that's obviously something we're trying to pay attention to.
Uh in Pennsylvania, in a number of the uh outstate counties, there have been irregularities too.
So uh it seems to me that instead of immediately jumping to a conclusion and assuming that there's a problem, which our friends on the other side do for political purposes.
What we need to do in all these cases is look at the facts and figure it out.
They're always crying, uh, you know, they're they're always crying Wolf, when in fact, if you look historically, they have been the ones that very often have been responsible for the irregularity.
Well, yeah, I mean the uh after Florida 2000 and Fiasco, they demanded an upgrade in uh in in in voting techniques, they demanded machines in this sort of the same people now who demanded that are the ones decrying them and criticizing them and saying that they're not valid.
It's it's it's hard to keep track.
I assume you guys uh are lawyered up uh you absolutely and and we're looking at it like in Pennsylvania right now, for instance, the lawyers in that state are trying to get this problem solved and trying to make sure that people outstate can participate.
Heather Wilson held a press conference in Bernileo County recently uh demanding that the Democratic uh Bernileo County elections clerk make sure that everybody has the right to participate and the right to vote, and that more ballots are provided.
This is a precinct with two thousand potential Republican voters.
They were given 150 ballots.
And there's an old joke in in in New Mexico that says if you're a Republican and you you have to win the state by a few more thousand votes than you actually get because of what shenanigans sometimes happen in Bernileo County.
So there are lawyers involved.
They're looking at this situation, but if you look on balance at irregularities at fraud and intimidation, overwhelmingly, it's been on behalf of Democrats who, as you note, it comes down to one thing.
Lack of confidence in their ideas, the same people that want judicial activism to unfortunately decide things as opposed to democratic process are also in this case alleging fraud, alleging harassment, alleging intimidation.
When as you look at O4, they too often were the ones that engaged in it.
Yeah, I I you're right.
I uh all of these charges of fraud suppression, uh things like that do seem to come from uh Democrats in far greater numbers than Republicans make these allegations.
Well, look, Rush here's my thing, I want there to be a bigger turnout.
In two nineteen uh two thousand and four, we had the highest turnout we've had in any election since nineteen sixty-eight.
You didn't read about that from all these people to say more participation's good.
We had more participation, no four, and they voted for a conservative, George Bush for president.
Uh I'm a big fan of early and absentee voting, because I think the more you allow people to participate, the more it allows more folks to play, which has been a good thing for us.
Our ideas win.
Our ideas win.
Every time people have a chance to debate them, I believe we're going to defy the experts today because our ideas are going to win.
But fundamentally, I want more participation.
Our friends on the other side seems to want to use it too often as a political tool.
Well, you know, you're right.
I re when you say that I remember in 2004, uh both candidates, uh uh Bush and Kerry received more votes than than uh any candidate in the presidential race had before.
The president got four million more than uh than Kerry.
Uh but I do remember at that time the Democrats who are always urging total participation, were coming out and saying, you know, it may be too much participation because it might have had too many people voting who weren't qualified in the sense they didn't know what they were uh doing, uh, hadn't studied the issues that it was just a a blanket get out of the vote campaign by the Republicans that just shuttled people to the polls.
So they'll say anything here.
Well, we all voice.
We remember in two thousand where there were attempts to cancel out the votes of people that were overseas serving our country in the military.
Well, it it it boils down to uh and I'm I'm not trying to put words in your mouth, so uh don't feel the need to comment on this.
I just and I said this earlier, I get the distinct impression they don't trust the Democrat process of uh and and they have to do what they can to rig what they know are their own problems.
I want to ask you about early voting, particularly in Tennessee.
The Secretary of State in Tennessee last night um announced that uh almost forty percent of the projected number of voters had already voted early, forty percent.
Something like eight hundred uh close to nine hundred thousand out of uh one point nine million voters.
Now you just said that you like early voting.
Yep.
Uh election day is election day for a reason, and and why not why not let us vote in June and July if we can vote a week early or two weeks early.
Where does this stop?
And how many of those early voters voted when, for example, Harold Ford was up?
Uh I'll tell you this.
We did an analysis of the early and absentee votes, and and one of the things our technology allows us to do is to get a sense of where the votes are coming from and who they're coming from, and I feel very good about it.
I think that the early and absentee votes in Tennessee are going to benefit us, and we're gonna we're gonna have won that uh on behalf of uh Bob Corker.
Uh, obviously they're out, you're right.
There have to be common sense limits.
I generally think though, people are often very busy on election day, sometimes they're out of town.
And I think if you study places like in Florida, Arizona, other places where there has been increased activity on behalf of absentee and on behalf of early, that it's been a generally good thing for the system.
I think the one thing we need to make sure on election day and before election day is when people vote that we know that they're qualified to vote, there's nothing that discourages participation more than people thinking I don't really count anyway, because like in two thousand and four, you had you know all this voter registration fraud that went on in Ohio.
So we clearly ought to have a system that says it ought to be easy to vote if you're qualified.
Your vote ought not to canceled out, you ought to be able to participate fully, and you ought to have confidence in that participation.
Talking with Ken Melman, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, uh, for a few more moments.
Um what's the sense now in 2006 on turnout?
When I was growing up, a high turnout was always said to benefit Democrats because there were more of them than Republicans.
What's uh what's the theory today on high?
I don't think that's true anymore.
I think 2004 completely proved that not to be true.
I think that a combination of things, your show is an example of one thing.
You know, I've always believed about conservatives that conservatives are people that participate when they hear a conservative message.
And certainly the history of whether it was Barry Goldwater, kind of the first modern conservative that runs, and of course the Republican Party and one of our two national parties becomes a conservative party.
Reagan then runs as a nominee, America's transformed.
Newt Gingrich and Congress is transformed.
George W. Bush and his leadership, 00-04, allows conservatives all across our government to be in a strong position.
I think more participation actually benefits us, particularly when we have candidates talking about our ideas, and particularly because of technology like talk radio, like the blogs that allow the message to get out as opposed to have it filtered by the mainstream media.
And what uh what any surprises we should look for today?
Um the It'll be interesting to see.
I mean, I think I continue to believe that Michael Steele in Maryland has an unbelievable Opportunity to make history.
That'll be very interesting.
I think all of your listeners need to be also careful about what we read and what they hear from when exit polls come out.
And let me explain why.
If you look at the exit polls in 0, 02, and 04, every one of them was biased against Republicans.
The guy that did the 04 exit polls went back, did a study, and he concluded that that is inherent in the system, that it is inherently biased against Republicans, in part because the overwhelming number of questioners in 04 were female graduate students for whom female respondents were more likely to answer the questions, and the result was you had a sample that was about 59% female, which because the gender gap bit favored the Democrats.
I think that could be true this year, but there's another reason.
I'll give you Missouri as a good example.
As you know this example well as a as being from the state, conservatives win in Missouri by running up big margins outstate.
We know that from the last four election cycles.
If you're a exit pollster, you're essentially paid for production.
How many answers you can get?
Where are you going to go?
You're going to go to the larger metropolitan areas where very likely there are more Democrats than there are Republicans.
You're so not going to go outstate.
And so that's not to say that the numbers may not be right, but they may not be balanced to what's actually going to happen.
So I would caution all of the the listeners today on the EIB network, both with respect to early states that come in and the exit polls that come in, put them in perspective.
Remember what's happened before, and certainly don't think because numbers may come in later today that that means you shouldn't participate.
Remember they were wrong in 0, 02, and 04, and our folks still went out and participated, and the result was they made history.
We've got to be ready to do the same thing again.
Speaking of that, one final question before I let you go.
I I think it's the Washington Post today has a story which basically says we're gonna know by the time the polls close in the East Coast, because that's where all of the substantive uh telling races are.
Uh is it true?
I don't necessarily agree with that.
I think uh Conrad Burns' race is going to be an incredibly important race.
Uh the Missouri race is is in the central time zone.
That's going to be a critically important race uh to who dominates and controls the Senate.
There are a ton of house races if you look at it, whether it's the Heather Wilson race, there are three races in Arizona, there are two or three races in California that are all competitive.
Uh so I think that's not true at all.
You'll be able to know some things, but let's remember the first two states that close in terms of the House are Indiana and Kentucky, where Republicans face a number of very competitive challenges.
There are other states that will close later in the evening where we have fewer challenges.
The ability to extrapolate and say, okay, because this happened in this state, that means that'll happen in another state, I think is wrong, and I think the same thing in the exit polls.
And again, this is not based on having seen exit polls.
It's based on having seen exit polls in the last three election cycles and just knowing the nature of what folks are trying to do.
Ken, thanks for the time.
It's really been fun talking to you.
And uh sure the audience has enjoyed hearing you too.
Ken Melman, Chairman, Republican National Committee, a brief timeout, and we'll be back in a flash before you know it.
And welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, half my brain tied behind my back, just to make it fair, ladies and gentlemen.
And as always, talent on loan from God.
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If your last name were abortion.
If that's if that was actually your last name, and you decided to go out and have kids, would you name any of your children alternative?
Probably not.
I don't know anybody whose last name's abortion anyway, but a bunch of registered voters in Delaware County have shown up with that name.
Alternative abortion.
A more pertinent question is this.
If you saw the name alternative abortion on a voter registration form, complete with an address and a social security number, you'd be suspicious, right?
You'd think somebody was playing a tasteless joke or maybe even committing a crime because that's what fraudulently filling out a voter registration form is.
It's a crime.
Well, this one is currently under investigation by Delaware County District Attorney's Office, along with hundreds of other suspicious voter registration forms turned into the County Voter Registration Commission.
Not dozens, not scores, but hundreds, if not thousands, says County Solicitor John McBlain.
So far, Delaware County has found more than one hundred people who have told investigators.
This this is a big county outside Philadelphia, by the way.
Found more than a hundred people who have told investigators and or signed affidavits claiming that someone wrongly tried to register and vote in their name.
Another five hundred and forty-two registration forms were identified as having phony addresses, and some twelve hundred to thirteen hundred more also appear to be fraudulent.
What is uh most interesting about this is that one organization submitted every single one of the nearly two thousand registrations that are suspected or proven frauds.
The group is the Association of Community Organizations for Reform now, otherwise known as Acorn.
Just last week mentioned this to you earlier uh this week, four acorn workers were indicted by a federal grand jury for submitting false voter registration forms in Kansas City, Missouri to the tune of 35,000 of them.
And uh this a liberal group, and and they're out doing what they can to um cheat and uh engage in fraud in this election.
And this group's been around for a while, uh, and it's you know, i you wonder how much they're getting away with.
I mean, they're they're being caught uh two two places here in Missouri uh and uh and now in Delaware County outside Philadelphia.
Well, you wonder how many places they're getting away with this.
They've trying this on a grand scale, you get uh you get caught.
But it's not new for these people, and this is this has been going on uh in Missouri with these people for at least two election cycles that I know of uh to New Orleans and Dave, I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Who knows Rush from the northern province of Guatemala?
Remote northern province.
Uh I have two things.
One is a question about um vo uh about the voter profile Southern Whites.
Wait, wait, wait, just just a second.
You went by You're calling from the northern province of Guatemala, you say?
The remote northern province of Guatemala, the cat the third world capital of New Orleans.
Oh, gotcha, okay.
I didn't want to No, I didn't want people to miss that.
If you live down here, if you were a native as I am, you'd probably agree.
Most of the people have that view of their own state.
But I have one question about um voter uh the way the media and the Democratic Party uh views white Southern males.
But if I can squeeze in an observation, uh you all were talking about uh polls a little bit earlier.
I've noticed that going all the way back to the Ford Carter race, that the news media has often on a very regular basis, release polls that almost always have the Democrats way out ahead early in the race, and on the eve of the election, the polls rapidly close and narrow to more, I guess to more realistically uh reflect what's really going on, and then lo and behold, the Republican either wins or almost wins.
It's as though they're they're closing it on purpose because so that they can have more credibility for the next lie for the next.
Yeah, but I've been making that point for the past couple of days.
Yeah.
Uh that that's that's that's uh and I predicted it two weeks ago that this would happen.
Uh uh that that the uh uh whole the whole the whole polling process here is is uh is distorted.
It's designed to affect people's attitudes.
It's designed to depress them, it's designed to uh uh uh get them convinced their party's gonna lose so as to suppress their turnout, uh suppress their interest in in all of this.
But there's there's uh no mistaking.
These three polls that came out on Sunday and were analyzed to the hilt uh on this program and other places yesterday indicate a massive tightening of this rate in the generic ballot.
Uh and and there's there's one reason for that, and that's uh polar credibility.
Now, I've I talked to some Republicans.
No, no, no, no.
We think that's a legitimate movement of Republicans on this.
And if they think that, it means that uh they also have to believe that Republicans were sitting it out at Republicans' worst day and they're not voting, or they're not going to vote Republican or what have you, but now they get closer to the election and they realize, gosh, am I really gonna do this?
Uh there is a theory, by the way, that some people hold that these previous polls were valid, that they're pretty accurate, and the uh what they reflect is that Republicans just who were mad about whatever number of things just vetted to the polsters.
A pollster calls up to I'm taking a poll for the whatever poll, and uh people took an opportunity to say, I'm fed up, I'm I'm voting Democrat or I'm not voting at all, just to get it off their chests.
But now, as we near the uh moment of truth, if you will, known as the election, those same people, you've heard the phrase the base, the GOP base is coming home.
And what that means is that they're now starting to think, okay, I got it off my chest, and I really, really want Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House and people like Jack Murphy running the Iraq War.
Do I really want these people in charge of my taxes?
Do I really, really want that, regardless how angry or upset I am about other things.
And that's that's being used to explain uh by people who believe the accuracy of the polls, uh the tightening that occurred in the three major polls that were announced on Sunday.
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I just um glancing up uh PMS uh uh DNC.
That's a new name for that network, by the way, PMS DNC.
Uh Chatsworth Osborne Jr. uh was interviewing uh Rick Santorum.
And I I have to tell you people.
I don't know what happened in Pennsylvania to Rick Santorum, but I do know this.
It isn't him.
He has not wavered, he has not changed one of the positions he believes in.
He has been a rock.
Peggy Noonan had a great piece on him last Friday in the Wall Street Journal, uh, in which she referenced the fact that Santorum and his wife routinely pray for Bob Casey, his opponent and his wife.
Because uh the uh Santorums know it can't be easy for them either.
He hasn't panicked, uh, he hasn't he has he's he's just run a very solid and and uh and straight campaign without backing down from one thing he believes and the things that he believes in are right, they're everything we all believe.
He is one of the most solid citizens, tremendous character and integrity, and it is a mystery to me uh what is what is going on, why why he ends up in these polls so far down in Pennsylvania.
Uh my wild guesses are that he's got some problems with his position on the Shivo case and the uh fact that he endorsed and stood by Senator Specter during the uh the Pat Toomey primary.
Uh that upset a lot of conservatives and so forth.
But I don't know that that's though though those are things I can I can uh uh think of.
Uh I'm I'm I'm at a loss to explain this.
There's no quite if you've ever heard Bob Casey in one of their debates, he's vacant.
He'll not take a position on anything for fear of having wrong or being wrong or having somebody criticize it is just an empty suit.
And it makes me wonder what what uh you know people watching these debates and and studying these uh these issues and looking at Santorum's record.
Uh it's unassailable in in I in in so many ways.
It's one of the things that's really perhaps the thing that's puzzled me the most.
Um I understand the George Allen Jim Webb situation for crying out loud, you've had the Washington Post uh as the de facto Jim Webb campaign headquarters.
George Allen has uttered the word macaca one time, but the number of times it's been repeated by television hosts and in print is probably in the thousands by now.
And he didn't say it but one time he hasn't repeated it, and this even after he apologized for it.
Doesn't matter.
Uh now I hear that uh it was true earlier this morning.
I don't know if they've gotten it fixed, but his phones were mysteriously out at his headquarters today in Virginia.
Uh you know, George Allen is same thing as Santorum.
He's a great guy.
He is a he is a tremendous conservative.
Uh and I, you know, I know the power of the the you know Northern Virginia is a heavy Democrat area, it's it's D.C. suburbia.
It's uh outside the Beltway suburbia, and you know, that the that that that area is becoming more and more populated by Democrats.
But I also know that one of the reasons they're targeting uh George Allen is because he is a legitimate conservative and they do not like conservative and they fear legitimate conservatives, and he was in the presidential mix, the Republican Party, and they're trying to take Two birds out with one stone here.
They're trying to get him out of the Senate and ruin his presidential prospects at the uh at the same time.
And they're running a conservative Democrat against him.
Jim Webb.
I mean, I mean it's it's some of these things are uh just extremely, extremely curious.
But the Santorum situation is the thing that that uh puzzles me the most and uh disappoints me the most.
Uh he's he's just been excellent for our cause and and uh and he's he's he's balanced the loyalty to the party and the and the conservative movement as well as anybody in elected office has, and he's fearless.
He doesn't back down and he doesn't apologize for what he believes.
And maybe that's what gets him in trouble.
You know, I sometimes think that our society has become a bunch of wimps in certain ways.
Look at the way our society reacts to words.
You know, you can go punch somebody in the face and hurt them far less than if you say something that offends them.
And they'll be far more upset with whatever you say that they hear, and it's it it makes me wonder sometimes about the toughness of some people.
Words are words.
And uh I know in mass they can influence and this kind of thing, but the overreaction that that people have in this case, you know, San Torum doesn't make excuses.
He doesn't curry favor by moistening the finger, sticking it in the air, and finding out what people want to hear.
He tells them what he thinks.
This used to be called character, and it used to be called leadership.
Now some people call it stupidity or stubbornness, or being obstinate, refusing to see the reality of things.
But if you believe what you stand for, look at it.
Abraham Lincoln, thank goodness that Abraham Lincoln didn't moisten his finger and stick it in the air and figure out which way to go.
Uh any great leader in um any circumstance, political or otherwise, is somebody who is confident and secure in him or herself and is able to bring people along in that regard and is respected for it.
And one of the things that concerns me about our society is that people who stand up for what they believe in are attacked more than ever before, and they are insulted and they're accused of being stupid and uh immovable and inflexible and deaf.
They're not hearing the people and so forth.
It's almost as though some people want linguine-spined wimps as their leaders.
And I don't know when this started, but I suspect it uh it coincides with the political correctness and multicultural movements, uh, and this too has been a liberal tactic to silence speech on the basis that it might offend somebody.
But when you have the truth on your side, and when you know what it is, that is strengthening enough.
That's that that that that inspires confidence.
Why should somebody who has a fervent belief in something that is right compromise it just because some people are offended by it?
But that apparently is what you have to do with certain people, particularly liberals.
You have to wring your hands, act like you're sorry for your very existence.
Apologize for offending people by the fact that you're alive.
And then they'll love you.
Because then they'll be reminded that you are like them.
So it the people that are not confident in themselves, the people who are offended by rock solid people.
Uh I found it much more limited.
In my own experience.
I have when I first started this program, I was astounded at the number of people who were offended and outraged.
Uh never before had that been the case.
People who know me personally are not offended or outraged by my existence or by what I say.
I've always been a harmless, lovable little fuzzball.
In most cases, nobody thought enough about me to like me or hate me.
I was just sort of invisible when I was in a room.
Get on a radio and bam.
And I finally figured out what it was sifting through emails and talking to people.
Most people were upset that I was so damn sure of myself.
Because they weren't.
And it bothered them.
It made them uncomfortable.
Somebody so sure of what he or she believes makes other people feel nervous because it Reminds them of their own lack of ability to stand up for what they believe.
And so those people, who are a majority of liberals, by the way, gravitate to the imperfect in humanity, embrace it and claim that's normal.
When we're all imperfect, nobody's sin free, nobody lives a life of perfection, nobody lives a mistake-free life.
Uh but there are just some people who seem to want to reward and gravitate weakness and uh uh malleability as as strength because it shows the ability to apologize.
It shows the ability to express regret.
It shows the ability to express remorse.
And when you do all that, you make everybody else feel comfortable in who they are because you're not acting like you know, you you're not behaving in a way that makes them feel inferior.
So I think Boyle is now one of the things that has gotten Rick Santorum in trouble with liberals in Pennsylvania is he's so certain of himself.
He and by the way, he is certain of his faith in God.
He is certain in his religious faith.
He doesn't waver, he doesn't make excuses, he doesn't try to hide it.
And I'll tell you this, uh, in certain parts of this country, if you express a confident faith in God and and your religious faith, that's gonna scare people too.
That offense, because that that creates conjures up all kinds of fears in people who don't have that.
And they end up telling themselves that people who are confident in their faith in other things are actually oppressors.
And they look down on people.
This is not who Rick Santorum is.
I just remember we used to reward people like this.
They I mean, well, there are statues and there are monuments of people like this.
You know, I've always said you can't go to the library and find uh great moderates in American history, the book.
I'm getting to think now maybe that book's gonna soon be written.
Great linguine-spined politicians in America.
Great flexible politicians.
I you know, a whole definition of uh of strength and courage and greatness, uh, if left to the liberals will be will be redefined in such a way that you can kiss traditional definitions of a great society out the window.
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Okay, back to the phones to South Bend, Indiana and Jim.
Thanks for waiting, sir, and welcome to the broadcast.
Rush, what an honor to speak with you today.
Uh mega ditto, Brady Quinn for Heisman Ditto's out here in South Bend.
And we I've I've been a precinct poll worker, uh, both in Florida and in Indiana here, and I I want your listeners to understand that I've been uh at a precinct that had an exit poll, and we used to joke that only uh the difference between a conservative and a liberal is a conservative has a private sector job.
And the people that come in during the day that this is anecdotal, that the people that come in during the day are the retired, uh the people without jobs, the people that are, as you say, bust in from the different uh areas.
And those are the type of people that vote during the day.
And then we used to have around two to three o'clock, maybe four o'clock, the teachers come in, and the people that are employed by the school system.
And it wasn't until about five, five thirty that we would have what we would call the code and tie people come in, the people that would get off work and vote.
So during the uh how would you call it, poll uh exit poll uh surveys.
Yes.
The people that come in, Rush, up until about five to five thirty, except in the very early morning, are people that demographically, by my thought, would be Democrats.
So I'd encourage the people there and listening to you not to have no faith in these exit polls, because I've seen them done and I see the people that they poll.
And no wonder they get such large democratic false results, because to tell you the truth, Rush, those are the people that vote during the day.
Yeah, yeah, um, Ken Melman mentioned this uh in the uh in the first segment uh of this hour uh about how the uh uh exit polling uh uh is is flawed in other ways uh as well, and how it has been, hasn't been accurate in the last two or three elections for a uh number of reasons.
But it's it's look, it's important to also remember here that there are no exit polls in house races, folks.
Here's here's how the house races are gonna be done.
There are exit polls in Senate races and in in governor race governorship races, but there are no exit polls in house.
Too many of them.
Nobody has the money to do it.
Even even if you would say there are only thirty or forty that are competitive, nobody has the money to do it.
So here's what happens.
Here's what's gonna happen.
The two states that close first uh at 7 o'clock.
Well, Florida does too, but the the they've got two time zones in Florida, so the whole state won't close by then.
But I think it's Kentucky and Indiana.
And there are some pretty competitive house races in Kentucky and Indiana, and that is why uh the drive-by media is saying we're gonna know uh real early tonight, whether it's a sweep or whatever it's gonna be close by looking at what happens in these uh eastern seaboard states when they close.
Now people say, well, wait a minute, there aren't any uh exit polls.
Uh how are they gonna do this?
Well, in each of these states, there are key precincts that once counted, uh and and a statistical analysis applied can give a statistical indication of how the whole district is gonna go.
Uh and this is how they've always done house races and projected winners in house races.
It's never been with exit polls.
It is with taking these key precincts, statistically key precincts.
And by this, I mean these precincts have indicated how the whole district is going to go for a number of years, or at least a number of times over a number of years that they feel confident in projecting.
And that's that's that's what's going to happen.
So when those precincts get counted after the polls close, uh that's that's how house races will be projected if uh if they are.
Now, as to exit polls with the Senate, uh we've been told that there is a quarantine room, and that only there are like two people from every network plus a couple people from the actual polling company, and they're quarantined in some windowless room with no means to communicate with anybody on the outside.
Wink wink.
And then at five o'clock, the data that they have amassed will then be released in the first wave of exit polls.
And these exit polls are supposed to be kept quarantined and secret.
We'll see if they do.
I should warn you, there are some bogus exit polls already out on the internet.
Pay no attention to them.
Now, what Jim here is saying is that his experience is that uh based on the voting habits of certain demographic aspects of the population, that the uh the exit polls may not be accurate because uh a larger percentage of one party or another shows up uh earlier in the day than uh than other demographic areas.
Uh his point was the professional people show up late in the day at the end of the at the end of the day.
Uh those who are retired, the seasoned citizens, uh the uh the illegal aliens, uh, the the convicted felons that are bust in by Democrats show up in the morning.
Uh the teachers show up about four o'clock after they've graded papers.
And this is this traditionally who the uh uh the Democrat voters are.
Uh it isn't that Republican conservative voters don't show up till late, therefore don't get factored in exit polling uh calculations.
This is Jim's point in his experience in both uh Indiana and Florida.
We'll have to see how that uh how that bears out.
But hell, it Tennessee Democrat Party has already sued uh bec based on on fraud to expand and extend the hours of polls are open today because of infrastructure problems.
It looks like this is gonna happen in Colorado and and some other places, and I'm telling you, Missouri is gonna be uh toss-up in this area.
That I mean, that that's they'll they'll probably once again have to keep the polls open in St. Louis till midnight because of uh suppression or other allegations or what have you.
So some are predicting an early night, who knows?
But nobody knows anything.
This is so this is so cockaminy wacko.
Nobody knows beans until it's over.
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Couples going on procreation vacations.
Heard about this?
I've heard about it.
And I know there's no way I'll ever make one.
Details Well, procreation vacation?
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