John Kerry: “Rush Limbaugh Was Tampering With The Election”
Go away, Kerry…just…go…away….
From Ben Smith’s blog at Politico:
David Plouffe and a series of big gun endorsers are holding a conference call to stress the scale of last night’s victory.
“He clearly did more than he had to and she did not achieve what she had to,” said Senator John Kerry.
Both Plouffe and Kerry stressed the importance of the Limbaugh Effect.
“Rush Limbaugh was tampering with the primary,” Kerry said “If it was not for Republicans taking Democratic ballots, he would have won,” he said of Obama.
(I’m not sure that’s true. The margin was about 18,500; Clinton only got 54% of the Republican votes, which made up 10% of the electorate. If none of those Republicans voted for either candidate, Obama would gain about 10,000. The question really is what share of Clinton’s votes were Limbaugh voters. For them to have provided the margin of victory, by my math, about 38% of all her Republican voters — that’s a lot — would have had to be voting tactically.)*
Kerry and other top Obama supporters stressed his gains with working-class voters and his strength with independents.
Plouffe also said May 20 will be “an incredibly important moment in the campaign.”
That’s the day “when Senator Obama clinches the majority of the delegates.”
*To be a little clearer here, Limbaugh clearly had some effect. And 41% of the Republicans voting for Clinton said they’d back McCain in November — a big number that clearly included some tactically-voting Limbaugh Democrats. But they also included people like the man I quoted yesterday who considered Clinton a preferable second choice to McCain. So don’t give Rush all the credit.
ALSO: A reader points out that some Limbaugh voters are self-declared independents, possibly increasing the number.
(Politico)
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Gonna cry, are ya? Hmmm? booohoooo
Apologize for having the Democrats doing the exact same thing and fucking with our elections first.
May 7th, 2008 at 4:38 pmWhy is it that, for some reason I can’t put my finger on, I am having a hard time telling the difference between John Kerry and Jimmy Carter?
Why don’t they both just SHUT UP AND GO AWAY?
May 7th, 2008 at 4:45 pmGo shoot yourself in the fuckin’ leg again purple heart boy.
May 7th, 2008 at 4:46 pmIs that picture of Kerry with the long hair photoshopped or for real?
May 7th, 2008 at 5:09 pmNow the Dhimwits know what it feels like. Give ‘em hell Republicans!
May 7th, 2008 at 5:13 pmKerry disgraces the state of my birth. Heck, the state government disgraces it too!
May 7th, 2008 at 5:25 pmPoor, Sam Adams, evey time I think of him, I feel he must be rolling in his grave at the Granary several times a day.
It’s ok Sam, there is always hope.
GooD job Rush…. it was the only thing that kept Lake County from stealing it for BO.
May 7th, 2008 at 6:16 pmI keep thinking half the reason the primaries were moved up is because the dems knew it would be a close race between the B O and Hil, and this would give them free advertising via the MSM. I’m glad that Rush stepped in with his pocket full of wrenches.
May 7th, 2008 at 6:44 pmBug out kerry–
That’s about all you do well.
Inbred POS
May 7th, 2008 at 6:52 pmJohn F Kerry, a coward in war and an idiot in peace. I couldn’t compare him to Dhimi Koh-tair. Standing next to Kerry, Carter would look and sound half-way intelligent.
May 7th, 2008 at 7:30 pmOn an intellect scale of one to ten Kerry is a minus 20 and Carter is only a -15.
Gotta love Rush.
As CinC USOC, Limbaugh has once again shaken the political elites; both elected and in the media.
May 7th, 2008 at 10:21 pmGod what a buffoon. How does this idiot keep getting elected?
May 8th, 2008 at 10:56 am