Operation Chaos Reviewed
I have a cousin who believes that, were it not for the interference run by Rush Limbaugh and Operation Chaos, Obama would have beaten Hillary handily. I decided to review the states of Indiana and Texas, two states where election results were close, to see what potential influence this campaign had.
In the state of Indiana, 1,274,993 people voted in the Democrat primary. Of these, 10% were Republicans. That makes 127,499 republican voters. They favored Hillary by 8%. That accounts for a surplus of 10,200 votes for Hillary from these registered republicans. Hillary won the primary by 14,195 votes. If we remove the surplus, she still wins by roughly 4,000 votes. That, combined with the fact that she only had an 8% lead amongst republican voters, tells me the plan didn’t work.
In Texas, there were 2,864,454 votes cast in the primary. Hillary won by 101,029 votes. The republican crossover voters made up 10.8% of the vote, or 309,361 votes. 33% of those votes went to Hillary, for a total of 102,089. 25.1% went for Obama for a total of 77,649 votes. That leaves Hillary with a total surplus of 24,440 votes from crossover republicans. Hillary won by 101,029 votes. Without the crossover, she still wins by 76,589.
My final analysis is that the Limbaugh Effect could certainly be felt, but not strongly enough to influence the results. In the end, Hillary won with the Democrats, not just with the help of the Republicans. This notion that somehow Obama would have sailed to a victory were it not for the interference of Rush Limbaugh is a faulty one.
So what did cause Obama’s collapse at the end? I believe it is the same thing that will cause him to lose the general election. A new poll shows that 38% of Obama supporters are “excited” about the election, whereas only 9% of McCain supporters feel the same way. Why is this? In part because of McCain’s liberal tendencies. But I believe that Obama’s extreme liberalism is more to blame. Obama’s appeal to left wing extremists like the environmental movement, socialists, and anti-capitalist special interests groups is the key to his success in this poll. With a major candidate expressing socialist ideology as freely as Barack does, this gives these “Hate America First” groups reason to be excited as for the first time a full fledged socialist has won the nomination of a major party (barring a miracle for Hillary). They even have the added bonus of a potential First Lady who has publicly admitted to going her whole adult life without being proud to be an American until this year! While this will excite the leftist base, it turns off many of the average Democrats and Independents. Hence, despite a struggling economy and an unpopular war pinned to John McCain’s part, Barack only has a 7 point lead in the polls even with this “excitement gap”.
You can count me in the ranks of those who will never be excited to pull a lever for McCain, but will do it simply to stop this country from suffering at the hand of the Socialsit extremist that is Barack Obama.
