Subj : Re: Limbaugh vs. Obama
To   : Mike Powell
From : Jeff Thiele
Date : Tue Sep 20 2022 16:51:31

On 20 Sep 2022, Mike Powell said the following...
 MP> >  MP> >  JT> Are you perhaps forgetting Rush Limbaugh and "Barack the Mag
 MP> >  MP> >  JT> Neg
 MP> >  MP> > Nobody except for Rush Limbaugh.
 MP> >  MP> > Did you wrongly think that a few negative comments from Rush Limb
 MP> >  MP> > w
 MP> >  MP> > going to influence an election?
 MP> >  MP> The people who listen to Limbaugh and are "influenced" by him were 
 MP> >  MP> going to vote for a Democrat, so the answer should be "no."
 MP> > The tendency of a person to listen to Limbaugh and the content of Limbau
 MP> > show are two different things. Limbaugh's show offered conservative
 MP> > viewpoints, sure, but was also intended to keep the sheep in the fold.
 MP> Exactly.  So he was not likely to influence someone like, say, you to
 MP> suddenly start voting against Democrats.  He had a choir that he preached
 MP> to.

And what would happen if he stopped preaching to this choir? Well, he has
stopped, and support for Trump and the Republicans is waning.

Jeff.

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