Hey, I meant to mention this in the in the first hour, and I didn't get around to it.
There are two things going on today that one of them is being covered, and one of them barely being covered.
The Democrats in the House were going to have a leadership vote today to ostensibly re-elect Nancy Pelosi to be the leader of the Democrats in the House.
But a bunch of Democrats have been working to postpone the vote because they don't want Pelosi.
They don't want Pelosi to be the face of the Democrat Party in the House.
An underreported story.
By the way, greetings and welcome back.
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By the way, one other thing.
Email during the why are you spending so much time on what we already know, the Democrats lost?
Because I want it to sink in.
I want everybody to have confidence how big this is.
I want everybody to know.
I said before the election and in the immediate aftermath.
When you when you take away the things I have to do here, uh, because this is a radio program and it's in the broadcasting business, radio specifically, there are requirements there to succeed.
And since we're in the free market and capitalism, you know, we don't have donors and we don't have funders.
I mean, the program has to succeed.
If that doesn't happen, all the rest of this is academic.
So beyond that, beyond trying to meet those demands that I place on myself and how I define professional success.
The purpose of this radio program has been to defeat the left.
I mean, there are many other things as well, but the overarching objective here has been to educate and to inform people about the pitfalls and the dangers of liberalism.
And it's happened, folks, this election is it.
This is whether people realize it or not, and that's what I hope to build upon is people realizing why this happened.
Liberalism, leftism, whatever you want it was rejected, repudiate big time.
Repudiated big time.
And so many people don't want this to be seen as an ideological election, primarily Democrats, because they don't want you to know that that's what happened.
They want you to think it's something else, just a change election.
Uh people tired of the same old faces, want to go different direction.
No, no, no, it's much more specific than that.
And even maybe some of the people that contributed to this big victory and defeated the Democrats may not have done so because they wanted to stamp out liberalism, but they ended up doing it.
And it's a big, big deal.
It is an overwhelmingly massively successive thing.
It's one of the things I was hoping for when we got to the uh victory in the House in 1994.
So to me, in a in a personal sense, folks, I'm sure you can indulge me one little personal uh desire here.
This is huge.
It is overwhelming, and it's joyous, this massive defeat.
So that's why I want everybody listening to the sound of my dulcet tones to understand exactly why this happened.
And I'm gratified.
There were people, all the smart people, all the learned pundits and commentators, even on Fox News and CNN, wherever, who before the election, in addition to saying Trump had no prayer, were saying that the Republican Party was practically non-existent.
It was about to be wiped out.
And that conservatism was the reason.
They wanted us to believe that conservatism equaled Republican landslide losses.
Conservative nominee, that's why we couldn't have Ted Cruz.
It's why we couldn't have Rubio because it would have been nothing more than another Barry Goldwater landslide defeat.
And that ticked me off.
Conservatism's been our only way out of this mess.
And Trump has learned it as this campaign has gone on.
You can tell it by the people he's thinking about putting in his cabinet.
You can tell it by Supreme Court nominees, it matters.
Conservatism is ascendant and is triumphant, and there are even conservative publications who don't want to admit this or say this because they're afraid to.
But it's true.
There is a lot to be ecstatically happy about in this election.
And I'm trying just to remind everybody what it is.
And the media isn't going to report it this way.
They're not going to cast this election in anywhere near the truthful light that it is.
Once again, it falls upon me to do so.
And I happily am here to do it.
Now, the two things that are being underreported.
The first, the House leadership election vote.
They wanted to delay it because they don't want Pelosi.
Not all of them, but enough House Democrats.
They're tired.
They look it.
There are some House Democrats and Democrats around the country who realize what's happened here.
And they understand they're happy Harry Reed is going.
And they don't want Pelosi to be around, scaring people left and right.
Pelosi can't tell the truth about things.
Pelosi is just poison.
I mean, the Democrats have proven that the people they have been out front, using out front as their message carriers, have defeated them.
The Democrats, slowly but surely some of them, not all, are realizing that Pelosi and Harry Reed as the face of the Democrats is not how they're going to grow their party back.
Those people are too divisive.
They are too, it's not even that they're controversial, they're just plain divisive.
They are mean spirited.
They are radicals.
They cannot and do not tell the truth.
So anyway, a number of House Democrats have moved all day today and yesterday to postpone the leadership vote until after Thanksgiving.
And they succeeded.
So the leadership vote that was going to automatically re-elect Pelosi as the leader of the Democrats in the House has been postponed until after Thanksgiving.
The reason they want somebody other than Pelosi.
A, they want somebody younger.
B, they want somebody much less incendiary and provocative.
Although that's going to be hard to find because that's what your average Democrat today is.
Your average Democrat today is a bomb thrower who is incapable of happiness, incapable of joy.
They are perpetually angry because there's always a victim out there being exploited by somebody, usually an American, and it's got to be stopped.
They are their own worst enemy.
The second thing that's happening that the media really is avoiding, I've seen one story on it twice.
For all the people protesting out there for Trump or against Trump, those are people bought and paid for.
There are Democrats at the New York office of Chuck Schumer, and they are protesting Chuck Schumer.
Chuck Schumer is going to be the new Harry Reid.
He's going to be the new leader of the Democrats in the Senate.
And there are a bunch of Bernie Sanders voters who are fit to be tied.
They realize how the whole DNC and the Hillary Clinton organization stacked the deck against them and rigged that primary election.
And they have late, but they finally arrived at the inescapable conclusion that Hillary and the DNC are inexorably linked to the people they hate.
Wall Street.
The far left wing of the Democrat Party thinks that Chuck Schumer is linked to Wall Street and big banks, which he is because he's from New York.
Those are the people that donate.
Those are the people that underwrite campaigns.
Chuck Schumer is indebted to investment banks, big banks, Wall Street banks, investment houses, hedge funds, and they don't like it.
And they want somebody beside Schumer.
So for all of the talk, all the protesting about Trump or against Trump, the Democrats are getting a taste of it too.
The media tries to paint a picture in the aftermath of this election that the only anger out there is at Trump.
We have essentially a huge, huge Donald Trump win.
when you measure what the expectations were, when you measure what all the predictions were and all the polling data, and even I'm told that people in the Hillary Clinton campaign, as late as 9 p.m. on election night thought they were coasting to a landslide victory, because they believed all of their sacred pollsters.
They believed all of their incestuous political brothers and sisters.
They thought it was in the bag as late as 9 p.m.
Tuesday night.
I'm also told that the reason Hillary didn't show up and concede late Tuesday, early Wednesday morning is that she was not fit.
Bob Tyrell in the American Spectator, who has developed sources that have been close to the Clintons since they were in the White House report that she was she had lost it, was shouting obscenities and even throwing things at people inside the victory suite.
We hear this so much, there has to be some truth to it.
So anyway, the Democrats thought it was in the bag as recently as late as 9 p.m.
And of course, when you measure this against expectations, and by the way, not just not just polling data, but just take the behavior of the Democrats, the arrogant condescension, the conceit with which they were running around here the past six months that the election was a mere formality, that Hillary was going to be coordinated.
It was all over for the shouting.
And especially as all the October surprises and dirt about Trump popped up.
Why it was not even going to be a contest.
People hated Trump.
And you turn around, you look at the results, and in standard political measurements, it may not have been a landslide, but measured against expectations, it was.
Not only was it a landslide, it was an earthquake.
It was a tsunami.
It was a shock.
And it was something they're still recovering from.
So the media's mission right now is to try to create another illusion.
The illusion is that this is an upset.
It was it it and that the only anger is at Trump, that the nation is angry at the result.
This is the illusion.
This is why they're focusing on all the protests.
This is why the protests are happening.
This is why they're being bought and paid for.
This is why they're out there in growing numbers.
It's to give the media the opportunity to present a picture that says to people the entire country is angry over this.
You are supposed to once again be dispirited, depressed.
You are to think that this victory was an aberration and somehow not real a focus on the popular vote, and you're supposed to think you are still in the minority, that you are still fading away into nothing, and Democrats still run the show, and the proof is all the anger out there at Trump outside Trump Tower in all of these big cities.
And I'm telling you, it's just like it was during the campaign, it's an illusion.
They have lost practically everything, folks, and there are people protesting them.
Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, nobody crying any tears over Dingy Harry going out now and building homes on his crazy land deals that he made when he was Senator in Nevada.
I mean, it's it's a it's just a total, total embarrassing repudiation of the Democrat Party and their and their ideology.
But they don't quit, and the media is doing everything they can to make it look like that's the opposite of what happened, that this is somehow some quirk, and that the majority of thinking in this country is outraged and angry, and Trump will not be allowed to finish his term, whatever it takes.
We're gonna get Trump this the American people didn't vote for this, and they did overwhelming numbers and ways.
So protesting Schumer, delaying the vote so that Pelosi doesn't become the leader again in the in the House.
They are in dire straits on the Democrat side, and they must be kept there, folks.
Now, uh the House Republicans have had it noted to me in some emails.
Man, these guys are really excited.
Russia was great to see.
They're all wearing Trump Make America Great Again caps, and they're out there just as enthusiastic as I've ever seen him.
And they are.
They really are.
But they too didn't expect any of this.
You understand, don't you, that all of the Washington establishment, both parties thought that this was going to be a de facto Clinton win, that it wasn't even a contest, that it was going to be another humiliating defeat for Trump and by extension the Republicans.
And the Republicans thought that they were going to be maybe decimated and non-existent as a party.
And do not doubt me.
They thought that on last Wednesday, the election results would have essentially disbanded and blown up the Republican Party, and it was going to be put back together from scratch.
And that's what they were all aiming for.
Everybody was jockeying for position to be in positions of power when the Republican Party was put back together.
And again, from that standpoint and that perspective, an earthquake hit.
The exact opposite of what every expert thought and predicted.
Now the Republicans are giddy and they're excited and they're out there saying it's a full speed ahead agenda implementation now.
Whatever Trump wants, we are behind it 100%.
And people scratch their heads saying, where'd this come from?
And it's not hard to explain.
A everybody likes being on the winning team.
B, everybody loves basking in the glow of the light of the winning team.
Everybody wants to be thought of as part of the reason why the winning team won.
Everybody wants to get under the act.
When you got a great stage show going, nobody wants to be in the audience, folks.
Everybody wants to be on the stage.
And that's where we are right now.
So the Republican leadership wants everybody to think they played a significant role in this.
And in what it's obvious some one individual didn't, those people still want it, thought that they are fully totally on board.
Plus, somebody else did it.
Trump did it.
It's easy to get behind the guy that did it.
It's much easier to follow the guy that did it than to be carrying the spears and go out there and take the arrows yourself.
Which is what they didn't much have a stomach for, given the way the media's treated them.
But now, now it's an entirely different thing.
You've got Trump out there who's going to be taking all the arrows.
Trump's going to be taking all the attacks.
And they have a little bit of insulation.
But even at that, um, I don't I don't mean to be critical, just trying to explain psychology.
Um here.
But we haven't won anything yet.
That's the thing to keep in mind.
We won an election.
But that's it.
Take a brief time out.
Time to get back to your phone calls, then and the audio sound bites of Obama in denial in Greece today, all coming up.
Don't go away.
Half my brain tied behind my back, just to make it fair, Rush Limbaugh.
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Here is Michael in Lyndhurst, New Jersey.
Your first today, sir, so it's great to have you with us.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Thank you so much for taking my call.
Yes, sir.
I want to point out something that you had said right after Romney lost a few years ago, when everybody else was saying he needed to, he needed to go after the African American, and he needed to go after the Latin vote, and they were saying he needed percentages that were huge, 8%, 9%, 10%, in order to capture the presidency.
You were the only one that said no, look the other way.
It was the white vote.
He only needed 3% of the white vote.
Now, somebody will say, well, 8% to 3%.
That's a as far as a number, it's a it's a big difference.
You were looking positively because as a percentage of the electoral, the white population represents a larger bulk as opposed to the African American.
What do you think?
What Let me ask you a quick question, everybody out there.
What do you think the percentage of the population of our country, if you're going to plus million Americans, what percentage are white?
If I if I had to take a guesstimate, I would think somewhere around 55%.
70% of the population is white.
Now compare that with the way the media makes you think demographics have been changing.
They are changing, but I'm not denying demographics are changing.
But they would have you believe that it's just a matter of years, days, months before you are nothing but another minority prepared to be stomped on.
And that's why your point was perfect.
Because it's, of course, 70% was not all of them are not voters.
Of course not, but there's even more to it than that.
I'm glad you called.
Let me build on it.
We'll get back.
Our last caller was pretty much right.
Here's what happened after 2012.
Romney lost, and immediately the consultants and experts on the Republican side said, see, see, we never gonna win if we don't reach out to the Hispanic vote.
They primarily the Hispanic vote.
That was it.
As far as the Republican Party, the way they've looked at things, their presidential future required reaching out to the Hispanic vote.
Not so much African Americans, because they've thought that was never possible.
The Hispanic vote.
But they didn't mean reach out to the Hispanic vote as Republicans.
They didn't mean reach out to the Hispanic vote as conservatives.
What they meant was we had got to do a cool hand Luke, and we got to get our minds right.
And we gotta go out there as Republicans and announce that we are for amnesty.
Now we may not want to use the word, but we've got to transmit to these Hispanics that we are perfectly fine with all of those millions, however many there are living in the shadows, coming out and becoming citizens.
That we, as Republicans, support that.
And the Democrats were telling us that we would never win the White House if we didn't do this either.
Remember that?
The Democrats, who so desperately want us to win the White House now and then, were really trying to help us by telling us that we had to get on board Amnesty.
And that's what I objected to.
I'm not, I'm opposed to reaching out to Hispanics.
I'm all for reaching out to everybody as Americans, not as members of groups, and not treating people as though they're legitimate members of some grievance group, but reaching out to them as human beings.
And what I said after the 2012 election was if the Republican Party continues to have a different message for every different group, they're gonna die.
It's called a Democrat Party.
The pressure the Republicans were under was the donors.
Chamber of Commerce has been taken over by a bunch of leftists and CEO types.
And they donate to the Wall Street Journal, they buy ads in the Wall Street Journal, they donate to the Republican Party.
So the Wall Street Journal, the editorial page and the Republican Party all were all in for amnesty.
And that's what was to constitute outreach to Hispanics.
Well, you know, I raising my hand I'm trying to put on the brakes and no, no, no, no, no, nope.
You're gonna not win anything, and you're gonna lose.
In fact, that might result in the party actually becoming so small that it doesn't exist.
You you're you're you're gonna lose every loyalist in the base you have, I said, if you if you guys go and do that.
But they persisted in thinking that they had to reach out to Hispanics by agreeing with and promoting amnesty.
And they believed it up until last Tuesday.
Do not doubt me.
They believe that's why they were so I mean, folks, they were crap in the bed, you know, with all the stuff that Trump had said.
Really, the last Tuesday, they're going to vote thinking it may be the last time there's ever an R on a ballot.
I cannot overemphasize this.
The attitude, the defeatist attitude that everybody on the Republican side had.
But you look at the camp, what did Trump do?
Trump did not identify people by virtue of their nationality, identified them by virtue of their behaviors criminals.
He stood up for law and order.
He reached out to Hispanics.
The idea that Hispanics or women or any other group of people People think alike, vote alike.
That's what Democrats want.
They want mind number robots who all think alike and who all vote alike.
It's easy.
You dumb them down, you get rid of critical thinking, and you just have a blob basically out there of people that look for the D on the ballot and pull the lever.
But Trump actually went to places Republicans haven't gone.
He went to Detroit, he went to African American neighborhoods and had a message that basically was, What have you got to lose by trying me?
It can't get any worse as I listen to you.
If I may say, my friends, he used a variation of one of my own utterances here that I've been using for a lot of years, and that is if I were African American and I'd been voting for Democrats for 50 years and I'm still complaining about the same things.
At some point I'm gonna ask, what is this getting me?
Nothing.
I've been voting for these guys to do me well.
I've been voting for them to get me out of the bonds of poverty.
I've been voting to protecting me against racism and so forth, that racism they tell me is worse than ever.
And who's been running the show?
The Democrats, racism is worse than violence is worse than ever, the economy's worse than ever, unemployment's worse than ever, and it's Democrats have been running a show with the first African American president at the top of the heap.
And it didn't get any better.
Trump went out there and said, I want it to get better.
And it worked.
He got an increase.
I've put the paper in the back of the stack.
Trump got seven percent more black votes than Romney got.
That's huge.
That takes the 93% that always vote for Democrats and takes it down to 86.
And that's all anybody said had to have.
We don't need to get them all rushed, just need to get 8, 9, 10%, and we could ruin the Democrat Party.
Look what's happened.
Trump got 8% more Hispanic voters than Romney got in 2012.
And he did reach out to.
And what was his message?
Build a wall.
Everything the Republican Party was crapping the bed over.
Turns out to have worked.
Am I a little bit over the line in saying that?
Because that's what they were doing.
So I uh all I did was was after 2012 was remind the Republicans, do not follow your instincts and don't follow your consultants here.
But they're in the establishment and I'm not, and so those are the people they trusted.
I I I would love to be in their minds at that moment when they realize Trump's gonna win.
Because you folks, you can't you cannot.
You cannot exaggerate how defeated they all thought they were on election night.
I mean, it was keep the sharp objects away from them time.
They really thought there might not ever be an R on a ballot again.
And you go from that to an election where you need a telescope to see the Democrat Party.
And you know the thing about that?
We all saw it.
It was all there.
I remember even telling you about it how many seats the Democrats have lost 2010, 2014.
They even lost seats in 2012.
Obama won, but they lost seats in 2012 in the presidential election.
Not a lot.
But they didn't, they didn't gain the Republicans got the Senate, didn't they?
2014.
So it was all there.
It was happening right before our very eyes.
The Democrats were losing elections everywhere except when Obama was on the ballot.
And that is the racial component.
Here is Bill in uh Indian Harbor Beach, Florida.
Bill, great to have you.
I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Rush, it's such an honor.
I'm not gonna drown you with the accolades previous callers have uh set upon you.
I'm just gonna and forgive me if I don't sound like I'm excited to talk to you, but I've considered you a close friend over the last twenty years.
Well, I I no no, I I appreciate that very much.
You don't you don't need to Well, Rush, I tell you what, I've gone through twelve heart attacks and cancer.
And uh my faith and uh you your radio show has kept me going to the day where I was able to see this election take place.
Twelve heart attacks and cancer?
Yes.
And uh I'm that's why I'm talking a little slowly.
I just wanted to say one thing, you won't you show why.
Well, just as uh Democrats have handed to uh individual groups left and right and divided his country.
When uh Obama last year uh redefined marriage that's uh you know been around for five thousand years, has uh has got into the uh social engineering and the uh the sexual identity.
You know what?
There are a lot of people who believe male and female, who believed in the sanctity of marriage, and they were saying, Hey, what the heck is this?
I better get out of my seat before I wake up tomorrow and I don't recognize this country at all.
What what is your take on that, Russia?
Um well you you are uh I I what I'm not sure I understand why you're asking me.
If you you you think are you basically talking about all of the the disasters Obama has implemented in our culture?
You mentioned gay marriage.
Well, yes, well.
And that bathroom laws and this kind of stuff.
But you're that's it.
Uh uh eight years ago I listened to you, and you said that uh Obama will overreach and that will be his downfall.
And for eight years I was saying, maybe you should call up and tell him he was wrong on that.
But he's a friend, you don't want to do that.
But after this election, I I said, you know what?
He wasn't wrong.
He did overreach.
Oh, I see.
Okay.
Yeah, it I knew I thought you were going to accountability.
Um I thought Obama would overreach.
What I what I thought was gonna happen has happened.
Obama campaigned as nothing but change.
He campaigned as I'm not George W. Bush.
I'm hoping change.
And whatever you want me to be, that's who I am.
You want lower sea levels as me.
If you want climate change stop, that's me.
If you want us out of war, that's me.
Whatever people wanted, that's what he was.
But what I knew, by the way, I don't mean to sound braggadocious, folks.
Please don't miss this there.
What I knew was is who Obama is.
Obama is a radical, radical, community organizer, means agitator, protest, uh, unrest, chaos, left wing authoritarian.
Obama is an uber liberal, an uber leftist.
And I don't know how many times I've said it.
If I've said it once, it's a gazillion times.
Liberals cannot win elections, being honest about who they are, what they're gonna do.
And Obama wasn't.
He happily presented himself as a blank canvas.
But I knew who he was, is why I said I hope he fails.
I knew what he was gonna do.
He had told enough people his Obamacare plans.
He had told enough people his Supreme Court plans, he had told enough people about his desire to transform America.
He didn't like the founding, basically because it's Christian and White, he didn't like it.
Thought the country was socially unjust and unfair, he was gonna change it.
He didn't campaign any of this.
That's why he was gonna overreach.
But I did say what you would have been right about if you'd have called and chastised me was I was really sad and disappointed he was not being held accountable.
The guy wins re-election in 2012.
I said, for crying out loud, then I saw the exit polls, cares about people like me, 81 and 19 over Romney, still blaming Bush for the economy, said for crying out loud.
Nobody is attaching anything that he's done to him.
So I evolved a limbaugh theorem to explain it.
Limbaugh theorem basically is that Obama casts himself as an outsider, even when he's running the show, acting like all these horrible things are happening because of his predecessors, and he's in there working really hard to change them, but it's worse than anybody knew and anybody ever told him.
And so the progress is gonna be very slow.
All the while he's taking this country in directions it was never founded to go, never intended to be.
And I was pulling my hair out because I thought he wasn't being held accountable.
He was when he wasn't on the ballot.
He's not on the ballot in 2010, they get shellacked.
He's not on a ballot in 2014, they get shellaced.
He's not on a ballot in 2016, he gets shellaced.
In 2016, in 2014, in 2010, his issues are on the ballot.
He gets shellacked, they get shellaced.
2012, he's on the ballot, he doesn't get shellaced.
Why?
Racial component.
First African American.
Can't tell a pollster I don't approve of the guy, and I can't vote against him if I did.
I could've I can't have people find out I did.
Oh my God, that would be horrible.
What will people say about me?
So your point is, right, he ultimately here has been held accountable in the biggest way.
This election last Tuesday, Barack Obama was finally held accountable for what he's done.
All of this decline was laid squarely at his feet.
That's another thing that is so joyous and delectable about this outcome.
Because he was campaigning saying you gotta vote Hillary to keep my legacy, to keep my issues alive, to make sure we maintain the progress I have been responsible for.
You've got to vote Hillary.
And people said no, in overwhelming unexpected, dramatic fashion.
So I was wrong about him not being held accountable.
It just took eight years for it to materialize.
But I was not wrong in the direction he was going to take the country.
Knew it full flood because liberals, I know what they're gonna do.
That's what's so frustrating.
I've been through this before.
And congratulations on whatever you do to withstand eight, twelve heart attacks.
By the way, a clarification on Trump and 8% of the Hispanic.
What happened was Trump got 2% more, and Hillary lost 6% of it.
So it's a net gain of 8% Hispanic.
Trump's actual increase over Romney was two points.
But Hillary lost six.
That's how you get to an eight-point Romney winner.
Now, in the next hour, top of the next hour, I've been threatening to do this.
I know you're not crazy about listening to Obama soundmights.
I'm not either.
That's why I didn't lead off the program.
I know you don't want to hear Obama, especially now, but you're gonna have to, folks.
This is again teachable moment, it's very important.
So we have some sound by some Obama in Greece.
It was in Athens with the Greek prime minister, and he was in utter denial over what has happened.
I wasn't on the ballot.
Uh this was election was not about me.
Uh, and I'm gonna be very important for Mr. Trump.
Trump, he uh is not an idiologue.
No, what pregmates he doesn't know what he's doing yet, and we'll need me.
Now he doesn't use those words.
But that's what he's telling himself.
You see, like all self-absorbed people who think they are God's gift and make no that look, can't blame him.
That's how he's been treated all of his life.
The people who think they're God's gift, narcissists and so forth, when the bubble in which they live, and they create this bubble, they create this little cocoon, where they tell themselves they're wonderful and great, and that everybody loves them.
And when something happens that pierces that, they ignore it, they don't deal with it, they push it away.
So we have outside events here, we have an election that has contradicted and punctured all of the greatness that Obama thinks he is, and he can't, and nobody like him could either intellectually or emotionally accept what's just happened.
This is this is more than just the five stages of grief.
Uh We're in pre-denial denial here.
And so that's why I want you to hear these bites.
You'll see what it is to which I refer when that happens.
Don't go away.
More than half of the arrested anti-Trump protesters in Oregon did not vote.
More than half of them, and that's just Oregon.
I'll bet you more than half of a lot of them didn't vote.
Meaning they're not really tick-to-be-tied.
Even if they are tick-to-be-tied, they didn't vote.