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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 independence in Massachusetts breaking for Scott Brown 69 to 28%.
According to local cable outlets in Boston, the turnout in the city is small.
7%.
The turnout in the suburbs is heavy.
The Well, 23% 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.
Uh, think Georgetown.
Upscale hippy-dippy liberals.
Cobblestone streets and so forth.
Those people have to show up as well and vote for Cochley, and the turnout, according to local sources up there in the city, is light.
And then they say, but but cities tend to vote later in the day.
Greetings and welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network.
Great to have you here.
Telephone number 800-282-2882, the email address L Rushmow at EIBNet.com.
Here's the remaining uh soundbite from Harry Belafante last night on the PBS Tavis Smiley Show.
Uh 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.
Is it you don't know?
You just you think you know, but you don't know what he said.
What?
Okay, then tell me what you think this question.
I'm I'm really s let me let me.
Oh.
Okay, he's not going far enough left.
He can go further left, and these guys 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 Belafanti about that.
Uh I s I'm still not sure that's what the I I'm not sure anybody would understand this question.
Belafanti apparently did.
Here's his answer.
When people speak to Barack Obama, they usually is intellectual pairs, the people who share the 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 uh 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.
You people in Boston, I'm just 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 uh it does not 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.
These 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 and they're trying as hard as he can out there, but this is just.
I mean, the logistics just make this almost impossible.
Medical science being overwhelmed, of course.
They're in the hospital.
Now what's Obama supposed to do?
He's working as hard as he can on this.
Uh 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 gonna tell you something.
I would not be surprised.
I'm not gonna 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?
No.
It's gonna happen.
Territory state, bring them, bring them into the U.S. sovereignty umbrella.
Uh I've I would not there's a lot of votes down there, especially after the U.S., with a Democrat president saves the day, even though one week later and not much is being saved.
Here is audio sound bites uh 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 a 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 Klumdyke 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 uh he got us out of Vietnam and lost the war.
When LBJ realized he'd lost a crime kite.
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.
Uh 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, L. Rushbow, 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 Slimbaugh 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'll 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 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 uh let's see, this is a a montage of uh 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 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 decision sometimes.
There is so much bureaucracy to see that the response was taking so long and so frustrating.
These big bureaucracies, I just think it takes a while, I guess.
Uh, maybe these pe 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 White House.gov, you're not getting help or aid directly to the people who need it.
These people inadvertently swerve in to a truth uttered by me.
Your lovable and adorable host, L. Rushbow, will 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.
Uh these are the people that have been electioneering.
They're stoking turnout.
They're uh in truth, I think they are alarmed.
They said, turn out the city earlier report seven percent, but the city's uh they vote late.
Uh 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 of 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 gonna 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 act- they're having to tell people, you know, this very important election.
If there's anybody in Massachusetts that does not know this is an important election, then they uh Well I don't know what they're doing or who they are, but I mean they gotta be odd.
I mean, they gotta be really, really strange if they don't know what's going on and how important by crying out loud the president of the United States was up there Sunday.
So an anonymous analyst setting a voice over how important the election is, ah, why all eyes are on Massachusetts.
Voters would decide if Obama's gonna 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 Cochley operatives.
News from inside, Marsha Coakley's operation is not good.
One operative said that National Democrats who flew in to rescue the campaign are 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 Perosi are on hand.
But there's not much for him to do.
Stop uh top strategist Perosi'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 in internal campaign poll shows Cochley 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 uh uh this rumor about Voinovich and Ohio, possibly becoming vote number sixty if we win in Massachusetts.
Uh have you heard that's not I've heard there's I've heard that he's having a meeting with Obama.
It's about 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 about is about.
I'm I wouldn't be surprised, uh, given that it's uh Voinovich.
But I would say if if they're doing that, uh their internals must say that Cochley's gonna lose this.
So Roy, I I think even the weather is cooperating in Massachusetts by keeping the acorn and the SEI folks uh 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, uh I don't know, I don't know what.
Well, we're gonna we keep an eye on the Voidovich thing.
Uh uh I really I I don't I don't know what that's about.
I'm assuming uh like you are that probably be uh about about Voinovich going over, crossing the aisle and uh coming a 60th vote for health care.
We'll just have to see.
Well, he's rhinos.
Uh you just never know.
David, thanks very much.
Uh Snurdley snurdly asked me, what do you think Obama's gonna do if Coakley loses?
Scott Brown wins, oh, he's gonna turn combative.
And right here it is.
I'm a formerly nicotine-stained fingers, the political Mike Allen, seven o'clock last night.
President Obama plans a combative response if, as White House aides fear, Marsha 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 gonna double down and work even harder at not listening to the voters.
That means they're gonna double down and work even harder to ruin the U.S. economy.
Whatever words Obama chooses, however, we'll have trouble making the substantive reality of 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 camp 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 deficit.
They are his.
The new massive deficits the deficits are his and they are pushing him toward more austerity.
The White House rally and cry a w according to one Obama confidant will be buckle up.
Let's get some stuff down.
They're gonna double down, become even more combative if indeed Scott Brown wins, which means they're gonna work even harder at not listening to you.
Which means they're gonna work harder at ruining the economy.
From the Boston Globe, this was well, 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, the 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 carry in 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, and I'm fairly confident the second American revolution will start today with the Scott heard round the world.
The Scott heard round the world.
I have uh 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 was uh Martha Coley and one with Scott Brown in Worcester.
And uh there was no enthusiasm for the Brown or for the uh for the Coakley event?
It was a Clinton event.
Martha Coley happened to be there.
Yeah, and it was an Obama event where Coakley happened to be on Sunday at Northeastern.
Yeah, I didn't I I was I was on Funday, I was with Scott Brown.
And the difference was night and day.
There was no enthusiasm at on Friday at the co 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 thing very telling?
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 Colkley was the first one to leave.
Oh, first okay, she didn't shake hands, just as you split.
Yes.
Well told me a lot.
I heard that Clinton made the event about him.
Yeah, it was.
It was about mostly Haiti.
Yeah.
Which where he said he actually he said the line that appearing from Marsha Coakley and and and uh and not going to Haitian aid for Haiti is uh two sides of the same coin.
Thereby confirming my point that it's been politicized as this administration politicizes virtually everything.
Uh Carrie, thanks much.
Uh happy to have that on-site report.
We had a lot of spies uh reporting to us via email what's going on in Massachusetts today.
Scott uh in the Dallas, Oregon, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hey Rush, good to good to talk to you.
Been listening to you since day one.
I was just gonna bring up a point you made a few months ago and I need to be reiterated today that uh, you know, if you want an example of how to run a campaign and uh take back our country, Scott Brown's done it.
The Massachusetts has what, fifty one percent uh independence and they're just flocking to him because of his message.
Sixty nine twenty eight independence are breaking well that's a that's in a pre-election poll.
Uh we I don't know if it's actually gonna break that way, but it um these uh the pollsters uh maintain that their polls are right on the money a margin of error and two to three percentage points so um we'll see you know one of the uh one I for I forget I forget who said this to me today but somewhere some on 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 I this is this is how far off the beaten path uh the left of the media is having it if he wins to say it's a rebuke of me because the guy's not conservative he's a Republican in name only 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 uh 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 any I remember that.
Do you remember that?
I remember.
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.
thousands of deaths in Haiti after the quake by making everything about this political I saw I I think this is General Honore now wait wait a minute how can you say that Obama is responsible for thousands of deaths in Haiti after the quake.
Okay I I'll get to my point.
Okay I'm gonna preface it by saying that I got this idea first by listening to General Honore who's retired who was I think he was President Bush's go-to guy in Katrina.
Right.
And so anyway he said and he 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 uh 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 this could be 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.
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 we and and we could have had other landing strips.
Well did Mr. Honore offer an opinion as to why Obama did not use the military as the first responders here instead of the USAID guy.
Uh no he just said it was a mistake.
Yeah.
He just so it is on that basis that you believe the wrong person put in charge of the relief effort at the beginning, uh, 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 the uh some deaths would not have happened.
Well, there's all the stuff in the airport, and and the people are starving to death, no water for seven days, and they're sitting in the airport.
Okay, that's number one.
Number two, he says evacuation.
You don't leave people who have just had uh uh, you know, amputees, people with you know bones jutting out of their their flesh, uh people who are you know they're getting gain.
He says you evacuate those people immediately.
You don't put them in these tents where you have you know three hundred people and no nurses interestingly, yesterday at the news conference uh of uh of uh Yycleff Jean, who is under all kinds of charges that he's personally profiting from contributions made to his charity, right?
Made the same point.
He says Port of Prince needs to be evacuated.
Just get everybody out of there.
You're not gonna be able to get any put them in tents, put put them in tent cities outside Port au Prince, clean 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 with skull fractures.
They're still alive, but there were skull fractures.
And then the the the next thing that I wanted to that the media is an accomplice in all this, uh the 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 happened.
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 uh 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 and the woman showed them.
I don't know if she's a dirt nurse or a doctor, but anyway, so she h 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 cuts that can take people's uh uh blood pressure.
And she said they opened it up.
You know the little pump thing when when when you get uh your your pressure, they have the little 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.
I you know, if you've had surgery, you you know what this is.
You you have kids 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 uh I don't know, thousands or hundreds, maybe just hundreds, of kids for open heart surgery.
She says, You ought to be kidding me.
We're gonna be doing rapid heart surgery.
And she says these things are ruthless.
So they uh this US AI people, I mean, they're just nuts.
Well, and by the way, we ought to go back and following her call.
I want to find it media montage.
I'm I'm not sure the mum number it might be number uh number three.
Number three, audio soundbite number three, a media montage of uh of uh state controlled media personnel complaining about the bureaucracy in Haiti.
By the time it gets filtered down and the bureaucracy gets involved and 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 at home who have no idea are making these decisions, and they're it's not the right decision sometimes.
There is so much bureaucracy to see that the response was taking so long and 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 uh, the bureaucracy, I guess it just takes a while.
So the contrast of an Israeli hospital set up in two or three days, MRI machine state of the art versus USAID with blood pressure cups without pumps and open heart surgery kits, where they're not doing open heart surgery.
Her point is the Colonel Honoraire was I think it's Colonel Honore in New Orleans.
Get the military in there to handle this, not these bureaucrats, my friends.
Dare I say this, Mr. Snerdley.
My reaction to uh Colonel Honore, uh, were he have said that to me, I 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.
Uh U.S. military focus of evil in the modern world to these 60s hippies that now run the country.
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There are no exit polls in the race today, because nobody thought this was going to be a close race, so uh many of the accoutrements that uh normally attach themselves to close races are not in place.
This by John Fund uh at uh at the Wall Street Journal, uh, 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 for Massachusetts, disappointing journalists and political scientists alike.
Uh 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 to 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 uh with the exit polls because there aren't any, and no chance of tamper with the absentee ballots, because the uh deadline for the intermittent was last Friday, and um not enough time for chicanery to take place.
I've got a I've got to read this in uh 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.
Uh, this is uh from life news.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 at 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 to Washington number registered to a company called SOOH.
Claimed to be from Massachusetts Citizens for Life when they uh 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 uh you know pro-port groups or pro-life groups say, uh it the opposite is true.
So dirty tricks are underway.
Uh if you're in Massachusetts and you're getting phone calls from a pro-life group, uh, those are phony fake calls.
They're coming from Washington, D.C., and it's not a throw-life group that's calling you, and Scott Brown is uh uh not being criticized genuinely by this group.
It's all made up.
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From Swamp Politics.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 Cochley in Massachusetts.
Throwing her under the bus today, just like they did Creed Deeds.
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 postmortems 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 uh before the end of the day.
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