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Jan. 19, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 19, 2010, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Well, the most recent polling data has independents in Massachusetts breaking for Scott Brown 69 to 28 percent.
According to local cable outlets in Boston, the turnout in the city is small, 7 percent.
The turnout in the suburbs is heavy.
Well, 23 percent of the population of Boston is black, and they have to get that vote out if Martha Coakley has a chance.
Also, the Back Bay, think Georgetown, upscale hippie-dippy liberals, cobblestone streets and so forth.
Those people have to show up as well and vote for Coakley, and the turnout, according to local sources up there in the city, is light.
And then they say, but cities tend to vote later in the day.
Greetings and welcome back, Rush Winball, the EIB network.
Great to have you here.
Telephone number 800-282-2882, the email address lrushbow at EIBnet.com.
Here's the remaining soundbite from Harry Belafonte last night on the PBS Tavis Smiley show.
Tavis Smiley says, the White House oftentimes takes being pushed as being told what to do.
They take being pushed as you're being disloyal.
They don't understand necessarily being held to a standard of accountability, being pushed by the left or other persons.
They don't see that as giving them the cover, being the wind at their back, that they need to go out and do it.
Does anybody understand this question?
You understand the question?
What's he asking?
I do not understand the question.
You don't know.
You just, you think you know, but you don't know what he's saying.
Okay, then tell me what you think this question.
I'm really, let me, let me.
Oh, okay, he's not going far enough left.
He could go further left, and these guys could give him cover by pushing him there.
But he doesn't want to be pushed because he doesn't want to be held accountable.
Okay, so he's asking Harry Belafonte about that.
I'm still not sure that's what the...
I'm not sure anybody would understand this question.
Belafonte apparently did.
Here's his answer.
When people speak to Barack Obama, they're usually his intellectual peers.
They're people who shared a common interest in power and the perpetuation of power at any price.
As long as the banks of America, the insurance companies of America can razzle dazzle us with their money and their speeches and wind up still in the place of power where they want to reside is the more they'll be willing to perpetuate their cause at our expense.
We must seriously challenge that.
If legislation is not enough, then get behind the legislation and put bodies in the streets.
Put bodies in the place of disruption.
Put bodies in the place where it says this immoral journey must come to an end.
Well, I don't know what he's talking about.
Obama's bashing the banks left and right.
He's raising taxes on the banks.
The banks are considering legal action here, saying it's not constitutional.
So the left is upset.
He's not going far enough left, even though he is bashing the banks.
You know the two most prominent buildings in the city of Boston, both named after insurance companies, John Hancock Tower and the Prudential Building.
Now, you people in Boston, I'm just telling you, if you work for either of those two insurance companies, your business is in the crosshairs of the Democrat Party.
Every business is.
Every element of the private sector, except that which Obama owns, is in the crosshairs.
And you see what happens when Obama takes them over.
When Obama runs them, he runs them into the ground.
It does not work out.
Haiti, ladies and gentlemen, I have a story here from the State-Controlled Associated Press.
One week, this is one week since the earthquake happened.
Let me summarize the story.
Violence uncontained.
Death toll has widened.
Distribution points for aid, medical supplies, food and water are not yet open.
Medical sites are overwhelmed.
And yet we are told that this response has been brilliant.
And Obama's working overtime, 36 hours a week, 36 hours a day rather, to get this done.
As I said yesterday, during Hurricane Katrina and that aftermath, the media portrayed George Bush as having a magic wand, a magic button.
Wave the wand, push the button, zap immediately.
Shazam, everything fixed.
But Bush wasn't pushing the button.
Bush didn't care.
Bush didn't like black people.
That's why he didn't rush to help people in New Orleans.
You remember all of that?
Well, that's not the reporting now.
The reporting somehow the violence is understandable as people are hungry and thirsty.
It's understandable people are dying.
I mean, look at the devastation.
It's understandable distribution points are not open.
Obama trying as hard as he can out there, but this is just, I mean, the logistics just make this almost impossible.
Medical sites being overwhelmed, of course.
They're in the hospital.
What's Obama supposed to do?
He's working as hard as he can on this.
That's the flavor of the reporting we get here.
By the way, Venezuela and the French say that we are occupying Haiti.
Hugo Chavez, who is an expert in occupation, claims that that's what we're doing.
And even the French say that that's our objective.
I'm going to tell you something.
I would not be surprised.
I'm not going to predict it.
But I would not be surprised if somewhere down the road, somebody in the Democrat Party proposes making Haiti a state.
Has it already happened?
Nope.
It's going to happen.
Territory state, bring them into the U.S. sovereignty umbrella.
I would not, oh, there's a lot of votes down there, especially after the U.S., where the Democrat president saves the day, even though one week later and not much is being saved.
Here is, look, audio soundbites two and three.
Alan Grayson, who is this deranged lunatic from central Florida, was on another show with no audience.
You know, I was thinking, folks, what must it be like to be David Schuster?
Follow me on this.
I don't know how Schuster, how old he is, but I'll guarantee you that he's in the news business, so therefore he must have had high aspirations.
He must be old enough to remember the days of Huntley and Brinkley on NBC, or Walter Klondike on CBS, or Frank Reynolds, Peter Jennings on ABC.
All those guys had power.
Those guys were able to move opinion.
Those guys were able to affect policy.
It is often said of Klondike that he got us out of Vietnam and lost the war when LBJ realized he'd lost Cronkite.
So here's David Schuster aspiring to greatness in the news business based on those role models.
And he gets close to becoming somebody at the Fox News channel, but they have to get rid of him because he's reporting all kinds of kooky rumors.
So now where is he?
He's on a cable network that's in dead last place or struggling in their competition with CNN.
They go back and forth for this.
Nobody is watching.
I mean, when you've got 300,000 viewers across the country, we have that many in New York City alone.
Nobody's watching.
What must it be like to be David Schuster or any of these people?
Huntley Brinkley moving mountains, moving public opinion, shaping policy.
So here's this guy, David Schuster.
And he goes from a network nobody watches to a radio show nobody heard of and starts taking pot shots at the most listened to media figure in the country.
Me, El Rushball, someone who does move policy, someone who does shape public opinion.
What must it be like for these little people?
And so here we have Alan Grayson, the lunatic, on another show that nobody watches.
Joy Behar is on the headline news network.
And here's the question: why is Bush so quiet, and why is Cheney so loud?
Well, listen, I think that he was just as appalled by what Rush Limbaugh said as almost any other decent human being was.
I mean, Rush Limbaugh, if you want to say one good thing about him, at least he's consistent.
Maybe he thinks that all those people who are trapped under the rubble in Haiti are going to be freed by the invisible hand of the free market.
Darn right, that's what will save Haiti.
It's the only thing that hasn't been tried.
Everything else, statism, socialism, Marxism, dictatorship, communism, occupation, it's all been tried.
That country has been consistently poor.
It's worse than poor.
That country is in rank devastation before the earthquake hit for hundreds of years.
Damn right, Congressman Grayson.
The only problem with the world is the unequal distribution of capitalism.
You'll find where there is not capitalism in free markets that you have tyranny, slavery, oppression, dungeons.
This is the essence of American exceptionalism.
The history of the world is the abuse of human beings by tyrants, both in government and outside of government.
The history of the world is not pretty for the human condition.
The United States, however, is exceptional, is the exception.
The United States is the exception to the human condition.
It's never been better anywhere in the world than here.
This is why so many of us, Congressman Grayson, are appalled and frightened at what your party seeks to do in destroying this exception that is the United States of America.
Damn right, capitalism would save Haiti.
Damn right it would.
Now, we have, let's say, this is a montage of state-controlled media people bemoaning the bureaucracy in Haiti and how it's obstructing getting anything done.
By the time it gets filtered down and the bureaucracy gets involved and there's a million chiefs involved, days have been wasted when you could get some folks and get out there, roll up your sleeves and just start doing it.
People back home who have no idea are making these decisions and they're just not the right decisions sometimes.
There is so much bureaucracy.
To see that the response was taking so long.
It was so frustrating.
These big bureaucracies, I just think it takes a while, I guess.
Maybe these people, I guess it just takes a while.
Oh, they didn't say any of this about Bush.
They ripped into the bureaucracies, blame Bush single-handedly and personally for this.
But doesn't it sound to me like there is an implied message?
Don't go through the government to fix this.
Go through the private agencies.
They are admitting exactly what I said.
If you go through a bureaucracy, if you donate to whitehouse.gov, you're not getting help or aid directly to the people who need it.
These people inadvertently swerve into a truth uttered by me, your lovable and adorable host, El Rushbow.
We'll be back.
What a satisfying day, my friends.
What an utterly satisfying day.
It's all patriotic music and the bumper rotation today on the Rush Limbaugh program, the first day officially.
We're saving the United States is underway.
As long as these songs are still legal to play on the radio in this country, we will do so.
Okay, we have an update on the New England cable network.
These are the people that have been electioneering.
They're stoking turnout.
In truth, I think they are alarmed.
They said, turn out the city earlier report 7%, but the city's, they vote late, turn out very light in the city.
And then they did come back and say, but in the suburbs, a whole different matter.
Long lines out there.
Now, the NECN network, the channel, just had an anonymous analyst on who said in a voiceover how important the election is, why all eyes are on Massachusetts.
This analyst said that voters would decide if Obama is going to have a nearly successful presidency.
He's fighting two wars.
This is an extremely important election, the analyst said.
Now, apparently, ladies and gentlemen, the analyst at this network obviously thinks the audience is as stupid as any audience in the country is because they're having to tell people, you know, this is a very important election.
If there's anybody in Massachusetts that does not know this is an important election, then they, well, I don't know what they're doing or who they are, but I mean, they got to be odd.
I mean, they got to be really, really strange if they don't know what's going on and how important, crying out loud, the president of the United States was up there Sunday.
So an anonymous analyst said in a voiceover how important the election is, why all eyes are on Massachusetts.
Voters would decide if Obama is going to have a nearly successful presidency.
So clearly, there are problems.
And the problems are clearly in the city of Boston.
And there's this from the Boston Herald's daily briefing.
More grumpy Coakley operatives.
News from inside, Marsha Coakley's operation is not good.
One operative said that National Democrats who flew in to rescue the campaign were losing faith.
The operative said there's not a high degree of confidence here.
Most people have given up.
Coakley's campaign staffers, however, are strangely calm.
Many big names in the political world, including Hillary Clinton's former Iowa director, Angelique Perozi, are on hand.
But there's not much for him to do.
Stop top strategist Perozi's running a phone bank, something she hasn't done in roughly 20 years.
Remember, we had a report earlier from the Politico that when they're calling people to get out the vote, the Democrats, that they're calling a large number of these operatives are stunned that they say, wave them off.
No, no, you don't have to call me.
I'm going.
I'm voting for Brown.
At this point in the game, it's like having a hammer and a screwdriver, but no nails or screws, the operative said.
Many still have hope, though.
One internal campaign poll shows Coakley up by 5%.
So that's the latest, the Boston Herald's daily briefing and from NECN network up there.
Now let's go to the phones and reward people patiently waiting.
Roanoke, Virginia.
We start with David.
Welcome, sir.
Nice to have you here.
Well, God bless you, Rush, and thank you for keeping us informed and keeping us free.
I was concerned about This rumor about Voinovich in Ohio possibly becoming vote number 60 if we win in Massachusetts.
Have you heard that stuff?
I've heard that he's having a meeting with Obama.
It's about becoming the 60th vote.
I know Voinovich is retiring.
The meeting is about voting for health care.
We know that's what the meeting is.
Yeah, that's what I say.
I don't know that that's what the meeting is about.
I wouldn't be surprised given that it's Voinovich.
But I would say if they're doing that, their internals must say that Coakley is going to lose this.
I think even the weather is cooperating in Massachusetts by keeping the Acorn and the SEI folks inside.
Well, you know, as I said, this is the one job Obama's ever had that he succeeded at, and that's getting out the vote with Acorn, you know, teaching him how to do it.
If he can't do it up there with these conditions, I don't know what.
Well, we keep an eye on the Voinovich thing.
I really, I don't know what that's about.
I'm assuming, like you are, that would probably be about Voinovich going over, crossing the aisle, and coming a 60th vote for healthcare.
We'll just have to see.
Well, these rhinos, you just never know.
David, thanks very much.
Snerdley asked me, what do you think Obama's going to do if Coakley loses?
Scott Brown wins.
Oh, he's going to turn combative.
And right here it is.
My formerly nicotine-stained fingers, the Politico, Mike Allen, 7 o'clock last night, President Obama plans a combative response if, as White House aides fear, Marcia Coakley loses today, the special election.
This is not a moment that causes the president or anybody who works for him to express any doubt, said a senior administration official.
It more reinforces the conviction to fight hard.
That means that they're going to double down and work even harder at not listening to the voters.
That means they're going to double down and work even harder to ruin the U.S. economy.
Whatever words Obama chooses, however, will have trouble making the substantive reality.
A Massachusetts embarrassment would strongly increase pressures that Obama was already facing to retreat or slow down the Big Bang agenda he laid out a year ago.
Democrat operatives on Capitol Hill have made clear that enthusiasm is cooling for cap and trade legislation to curb carbon emissions as the party heads into an election year.
The same is true for the always sensitive issue of immigration form.
On the fiscal front, massive deficits were already pushing Obama toward more austerity on spending.
What?
Massive deficits.
They are his.
The new massive deficits are his, and they are pushing him toward more austerity.
The White House rallying cry, according to one Obama confidant, will be buckle up, let's get some stuff down.
They're going to double down, become even more combative if indeed Scott Brown wins, which means they're going to work even harder at not listening to you, which means they're going to work harder at ruining the economy.
From the Boston Globe, this was had to be, well, it could be this morning, could be last night, I'm not sure which.
Senator Kerry says Scott Brown's supporters are engaged in bullying and threats.
John Kerry, who, by the way, served in Vietnam, is calling on Republican Scott Brown, waging a surging campaign to curb his supporters, saying they've engaged in bullying and threats in recent days.
Some of them are from out of state.
Scott Brown needs to speak up and get his out-of-state Tea Party supporters under control.
In Massachusetts, we fight hard.
We win elections on the issues and on our differences, not with bullying and threats.
On the issues and on your differences, the Democratic Party has occupied this state.
Liberals have occupied this state forever.
Maybe that is coming to an end as well today.
We will see.
Hey, welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
Rush Limbaugh having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have all patriotic music today to bumper music rotation.
And to show our balance, compassion with the leftists.
This is the national anthem of Venezuela: Glory to the brave people.
It does sound rather American.
It does almost sound like they plagiarized one of our own patriotic tunes.
Well, the Soviets stole every design for everything they've got from us from automobiles to jets.
The Venezuela National Anthem and Rush Limbaugh back now to the phones to Carrion Worcester, Massachusetts, or Worcester.
Nice to have you here.
Hello.
Rush, what a pleasure to talk to you.
Thank you.
I'm calling you from the state that I'm fairly confident the second American Revolution will start today with the Scott heard round the world.
The Scotts heard round the world.
I've seen that line referenced.
Good for you.
So you really feel that confident about it?
Absolutely.
I witnessed two events over the weekend.
One with Martha Coakley and one with Scott Brown in Worcester.
And there was no enthusiasm for the Brown for the Coakley event?
It was a Clinton event.
Martha Coakley happened to be there.
Yeah, and it was an Obama event where Coakley happened to be on Sunday in Northeastern.
Yeah, I didn't, I was confusing.
I was on Sunday, I was with Scott Brown, and the difference was night and day.
There was no enthusiasm on Friday at the Clinton event.
She was the first one out of the rope line.
She was the first one out.
What do you mean, the first one?
What do you mean, the first one out?
Well, usually they shake hands.
I was like third in front of the stage, and Bill Clinton came down and shook hands.
Martha Coakley was the first one to leave.
Oh, first.
Okay, she didn't shake hands, just split.
Yes.
She told me a lot.
She probably ticked off when they got.
I heard that Clinton made the event about him.
Yeah, it was.
It was about mostly Haiti.
Yeah.
And that's where he said, he actually said the line that appearing from Marsha Coakley and not going to Haiti and aid for Haiti is two sides of the same coin, thereby confirming my point that it's been politicized, as this administration politicizes virtually everything.
Carrie, thanks much.
Happy to have that on-site report.
We have a lot of spies reporting to us via email what's going on in Massachusetts today.
Scott in the Dallas, Oregon.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hey, Rush, good to talk to you.
Been listening to you since day one.
I was just going to bring up a point you made a few months ago, and it needs to be reiterated today.
That, you know, if you want an example of how to run a campaign and take back our country, Scott Brown's done it.
Massachusetts has, what, 51% independence, and they're just flocking to him because of his message.
6928, independents are breaking.
Well, that's in a pre-election poll.
I don't know if it's actually going to break that way, but these pollsters maintain that their polls are right on the money, a margin of error in the two to three percentage points.
So we'll see.
You know, one of the one, I forget who said this to me today, but somewhere, on some cable network, it is being said that if Scott Brown wins, it is a repudiation of me because Scott Brown is not conservative, that he's a rhino, that he's a Republican in name only.
This is how far off the beaten path the left and the media is having it.
I mean, if he wins, to say it's a rebuke of me because the guy's not conservative, he's a Republican in name only?
Holy moly, how in the world can a Republican winning the Ted Kennedy seat be a rebuke of me or anybody?
Especially, I didn't even get involved in this race until last week on purpose by strategic design.
Thanks, Scott.
This is Cindy in Chicago.
Nice to have you on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hello.
Oh, Rush, I'm so excited.
I've been listening to you since back in the old Sacramento days.
Wow, thank you.
And this is when you had your first thing down in Santa Maria and used to give out autograph pictures.
Of course, you took too big now, but anyway.
I remember that.
Do you remember that?
I remember that.
You had like, Uncle Sam, I want you.
I remember that.
That was one of the first Rush to Excellence tour stops in the history of the EIB network, Santa Maria.
Not far from where Michael Jackson's ranch is.
Yeah, right.
But anyway, so it's a thrill.
It's an absolute thrill.
I'm a retired school teacher.
Anyway, I'll get to the point.
I think, and there's kind of proof, and I'll give it to you, that Obama is probably responsible for thousands and thousands of deaths in Haiti after the quake by making everything about this political.
I saw, I think this is General Honoree.
Now, wait, wait a minute.
How can you say that Obama is responsible for thousands of deaths in Haiti after the quake?
Okay, I'll get to my point.
Okay, I'm going to preface it by saying that I got this idea first by listening to General Honoree, who's retired, who was, I think he was President Bush's go-to guy in Katrina.
Right.
And so anyway, he said, and they gave him like 90 seconds or something on CNN, and I have never seen him.
I know he's a regular there, but ever since he said that, he's not been on any of the shows again.
So anyway.
What did he say?
Pardon?
What did he say?
Okay, what he said that Obama's first mistake was he made the USA aid guy, USAID guy, in charge.
He said that was a huge, huge mistake.
He said, if the president had chosen, like President Bush chose him, he didn't say that part, but if he had chosen the military to be the go-to person on this, so many of these could, I mean, so many of this could have been avoided.
And I'll give you real quick.
Number one, he said, the airport hassle.
He says, are you kidding me?
In the military, we do airport landings, runways, no matter where we go.
He said, we could have had another one up and running in no time.
You get the 82nd out there, and he said, you know, we pick a location, and we could have had other landing strips.
Well, did Mr. Honoré offer an opinion as to why Obama did not use the military as the first responders here instead of the U.S. AID guy?
No, he just said it was a mistake.
Yeah.
So it is on that basis that you believe the wrong person put in charge of the relief effort at the beginning that unnecessarily thousands of people died.
Had the military been deployed in there first to set things up and get things going, handle a crime, handle the riots, that some deaths would not have happened.
Well, they tell the stuff in the airport, and people are starving to death, no water for seven days, and the sitting in the airport.
Okay, that's number one.
Number two, he says evacuation.
You don't leave people who have just had amputees, people with bones jutting out of their flesh, people who are, you know, they're getting gained.
He says you evacuate those people immediately.
You don't put them in these tents where you have 300 people and no nurses.
Well, you know, interestingly, yesterday at the news conference of Wyclef Jean, who is under all kinds of charges that he's personally profiting from contributions made to his charity, made the same point.
He says Port-au-Prince needs to be evacuated.
Just get everybody out of there.
You're not going to be able to get any.
Put them in tents.
Put them in tent cities outside Port-au-Prince.
Clean the place out.
That way you can deal with people.
You can't get to people when the city is on top of them.
He says that, I mean, you see people on the road, on the road with skull fractures.
They're still alive, but there were skull fractures.
And then the next thing that I wanted to, that the media is an accomplice in all this, the Israelis, what they did is they chose a location and they set up a hospital.
This is like within like two, three days after the earthquake.
Yeah, that I'm aware of.
Pardon?
I'm aware of that.
One of the reporters went in there and they got like, I don't know, 15 seconds or something.
It's state of the art.
They had MRI machines.
They had scanners.
They had x-ray machines.
They had, I mean, they only take as many patients as they can take care of.
But he says it's all state-of-the-art.
Then they went to one of the other ones where they had 300 patients.
They had two pressure cuffs.
So they go to AID, the USAID, and they say, hey, you know, I mean, these are surgical.
You know, we need pressure cuffs.
So they get all these boxes.
And the woman showed them.
I don't know if she's a nurse or a doctor, but anyway.
So she held one up.
She says, we were so thrilled.
They opened up this boxes and, you know, I don't know, hundreds or, I mean, it's a huge, you know, huge boxes of these pressure cups that can take people's blood pressure.
And she said, they opened it up.
You know, the little pump thing when you get your pressure, they have the little pump thing.
Yeah, what was in the box?
The pressure cup with no pump thing.
And she says, it's worthless.
Throw them away.
Then they opened up more boxes.
And then she showed them, she held them up.
And these were kits.
You know, if you've had surgery, you know what this is.
You have kits when you're having a certain surgery.
They have kits where all the stuff you use for that particular surgery is in the kit.
They sent, I don't know, thousands or hundreds, maybe just hundreds of kits for open heart surgery.
She says, you've got to be kidding me.
We're going to be doing open heart surgery.
And she says, these things are ruthless.
So this U.S. CIC people.
I mean, they're just nuts.
Well, and by the way, we ought to go back and follow her call.
I want to find out media montage.
I'm not sure the number might be number three.
Number three, audio soundbite number three, a media montage of state-controlled media personnel complaining about the bureaucracy in Haiti.
By the time it gets filtered down and the bureaucracy gets involved and there's a million chiefs involved, days have been wasted when you could get some folks and get out there, roll up your sleeves and just start doing it.
People back home who have no idea are making these decisions and they're just not the right decisions sometimes.
There is so much bureaucracy to see that the response was taking so long.
It was so frustrating.
These big bureaucracies.
I just think it takes a while, I guess.
Yeah, it just takes a while.
I guess Bush could wave a magic wand and he didn't, but ah, the bureaucracy, I guess it just takes a while.
So the contrast of an Israeli hospital set up in 2003 MRI machine state-of-the-art versus USAID with blood pressure cups without pumps and open heart surgery kits when they're not doing open heart surgery.
Her point is Colonel Honoré, or was it, I think it's Colonel Honoré, New Orleans.
Get the military in there to handle this, not these bureaucrats, my friends.
Dare I say this, Mr. Snirdley.
My reaction to Colonel Honoré, where he said that to me, it would have said, well, Colonel, what has made you think in the past year that the Commander-in-Chief wants the military to shine or to get credit as opposed to his administration and the bureaucracy getting credit?
I don't think it's an oversight the military wasn't given lead role here.
I think these are leftists, folks.
U.S. military focus of evil in the modern world to these 60s hippies that now run the country.
All patriotic music today on the Rush Limbaugh program as the first official day of Taking Back America possibly is underway.
A telephone number here, 800-282-2882.
There are no exit polls in the race today because nobody thought this was going to be a close race.
So many of the accoutrements that normally attach themselves to close races are not in place.
This is by John Fund at the Wall Street Journal.
Why there won't be exit polls in Massachusetts?
And one out of four Massachusetts voters think that Acorn will try to steal the election.
Brown's surge was so sudden that many of the usual accoutrements of closely contested elections are missing.
One is exit polls.
There will be none tonight from Massachusetts, disappointing journalists and political scientists alike.
Mike Allen Politico reports the consortium of news outlets that normally organizes such surveys didn't bother when the race was expected to be a blowout and now wasn't confident a reliable system could be built this fast.
Another casualty of the expectation the race will be a cakewalk for the Democrat will be an absence of absentee ballot fraud, the preferred method of putting an illegal thumb on the scale in a close race.
Applications for absentee ballots had to be submitted by last Friday, providing little opportunity for those with ill intent to organize such an effort once they realized the race had tightened up.
When asked whether Acorn will try to steal the election from Martha Coakley, a surprising 25% of those surveyed in Massachusetts said yes.
So no chance to tamper with the exit polls because there aren't any and no chance to tamper with absentee ballots because the deadline for the intermittent was last Friday and not enough time for chicanery to take place.
I've got to read this in more detail, but I just got a flash that a group in Washington, D.C. is making calls, phone calls to voters in Boston claiming to be a pro-life group opposed to Scott Brown because of his stance on the health care bill.
This is from LifeNews.com behind the polls to Republican Senate candidate Scott Brown.
Supporters of pro-abortion candidate Martha Coakley have evidently reached into their bag of tricks.
A Washington, D.C. company is making calls to Massachusetts residents pretending to represent a prominent pro-life group.
The calls come from an Area Code 202 number.
It's a Washington number registered to a company called SOOH.
Claimed to be from Massachusetts Citizens for Life when somebody answers the phone.
The caller claims that the pro-life group is opposing Scott Brown because of his stance against the health care bill.
But as the pro-board groups or pro-life groups say, the opposite is true.
So dirty tricks are underway.
If you're in Massachusetts and you're getting phone calls from a pro-life group, those are phony fake calls.
They're coming from Washington, D.C., and it's not a pro-life group that's calling you.
And Scott Brown is not being criticized genuinely by this group.
It's all made up.
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From swamppolitics.com, President Obama's top political advisor, David Axelrod, said today that if the White House had been asked earlier, more could have been done for Martha Coakley in Massachusetts.
Throwing her under the bus today, just like they did Creeded's.
If he'd asked us earlier, we could have gone in there and helped out.
Axelrod in a question and answer session with reporters said it was too soon for post-mortems on the special election.
And for the record, he said that he still expected Coakley to win, but it didn't take much reading between the lines to see that the president and his team are preparing to backpedal as swiftly as Deion Sanders to distance Obama from a disastrous result tonight.
And Axelrod even said, hats off to Scott Brown as a practitioner in politics.
My hat's off to him.
So, if the White House had been asked earlier, if only the White House had been asked for their help earlier.
We're not saying it's over, but we could have really made a bigger difference.
I think sounds like they're throwing her overboard to me before the end of the day.
Much more straight ahead.
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