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Topic: Do We Want to Reach the Low-Info Crowd? |
Do We Want to Reach the Low-Info Crowd?
Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh
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Posted By:Desert Fox, 12/20/2012 5:18:32 PM
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| RUSH: We´re gonna start in Long Valley, New Jersey. This is Frank. Thank you, sir, and welcome. Great to have you here. CALLER: Thank you, Rush. I was sitting here enjoying a cigar in one of the last bastions in New Jersey you´re still allowed to smoke. So having a good time listening to you. But the real problem here is, you´re talking about the uninformed voter, you´re not gonna get them by giving them more information. And the left separates elections from governing. And we don´t do that.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
EQKimball, 12/20/2012 6:45:33 PM (No. 9076754)
It´s hard to win when the mainstream press and nearly the entire education establishment are reinforcing the Democratic party talking points 365 days a year.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
uno, 12/20/2012 6:53:27 PM (No. 9076760)
Not only that, but only Defecrats will stoop so low as to reach deep into their self cultivated bubbing vat of dumbed-down, barely aware, dope-smoking, self-absorbed, media-influenced, celebrity-obsessed, Escalade driving, EBT card wielding, Kool-Aid drinking, entitlement rich culture of worthless couch-potatos, uninformed, government-dependent, busted-ass parasites and Obamaphone zombies collecting billions of dollars of overtaxed payer funded welfare benefits that make up the majority of so-called “low information voters” as well as the biggest collection of ignorant, gullible, white guilt-ridden, Volvo-driving, Birkenstock-wearing, bottled-water-drinking, Politically Correct, Xanax-disabled, Valium-dependent lemmings
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
King of all trolls, 12/20/2012 6:58:44 PM (No. 9076763)
We do if we want to govern rather than throw spitwads from the sidelines. The GOP war against unions was very ill advised and needs to end immediately. Remember Reagan democrats? Those were LIV and often union workers. Reagan himself was a union man. The GOP has somehow morphed into the party for the elite which takes capital´s side reflexively on every single trade issue. I´m not advocating for pro-union policies per se, but the hostility to unions and nasty rhetoric directed at union workers has not born fruit. A better way forward is to focus on common ground: job creation, welfare reform, techological advancement, job training for laid off workers. The GOP seems to think it can win and yet cede the entire working class to the Democraps. Truth is many of the working class are pro-military and socially conservative. Many live in swing states like OH, WI, MI, PA. But the stupid party seems intent on staying "pure" and increasingly irrelevant.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Judith, 12/20/2012 7:10:07 PM (No. 9076779)
Rush usually bounces back from bad news. This time he is not. Today he said the republicans lost the american public when they suggested that you had to WORK to be successful. He claimed Americans are not interested in hard work. Some one has to do an intervention with him. He is not rebounding but sinking deeper into what sounds like despair.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
tipover, 12/20/2012 7:17:13 PM (No. 9076792)
Sorry No 3 but the States must deal with the bleeding wounds that are killing them. In many cases that involves Unions. Individual members may be conservative, Unions are NOT.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
alloysteel, 12/20/2012 7:25:54 PM (No. 9076801)
It may not be possible to reach a significant number of them by now, if only there are so gosh-awful MANY of them. Some few might be converted to live in reality, but their places will be immediately be filled by the enormous numbers that are still coming up.
Dumbing-down has been a very effective policy for liberals for decades, and it is paying off big time.
Meanwhile, the older (and presumedly more capable of critical thinking) generations are dying off.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Blackeagle, 12/20/2012 7:26:29 PM (No. 9076802)
´´the Low-Info Crowd´´
or as Barry like to refer to them as ´´my base´´.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
jar, 12/20/2012 7:30:43 PM (No. 9076809)
To win the low information voter, you probably have to first convince the media and the teachers. Tough job.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Bobn.T, 12/20/2012 10:49:24 PM (No. 9076956)
Dumbing-down education has succeeded. The dumbed-down, under thirty electorate, re-elected oDumbo.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
ColonialAmerican1623, 12/21/2012 12:33:27 AM (No. 9077032)
We are working with the second generation of dumbed down. Thank goodness most are too lazy to vote, or it would be worse.
The comments under some news articles (like the one on Tapper leaving for CNN) speaks volumes for America, and it´s not pretty.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
ocjim, 12/21/2012 2:24:04 AM (No. 9077083)
Low-info voters don´t know anything and don´t think or even care much about issues and politics. They parrot and they echo. Intellectually unarmed, they are pigeons for propaganda. They absorb their opinions en masse from the prevailing popular culture. Last time I checked, the Left OWNS the prevailing popular culture.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Rather Read, 12/21/2012 4:42:33 AM (No. 9077130)
1. The left owns popular culture. Sadly, more people listen to Jon Stewart than George Will.
2. The left owns the schools of education. I work in one - believe me, the students are very thoroughly indoctrinated and most of them never stop to think about it.
3. Learning is not valued. People are more apt to go with their feeeeeelings than stop and think about issues.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
franq, 12/21/2012 6:26:28 AM (No. 9077173)
The debate is over. Survival depends on prayer and wits.
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