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That a majority would never vote for her does NOT mean she'd lose any contest. Half of Americans don't vote. Other surveys have found, for instance, that Fred Thompson would only tie her, at 42%. That means that 16% of the electorate might vote for Thompson. Or they could stay home. Or Thompson could even lose by a ratio of 48-42, with 10% of "likely voters" not actually voting.

So if Hillary DOES win, it means that the majority that would NOT vote for her would also be the majority of voters that WOULD vote for Fred but make up the highest ratio of the 50% of Americans who DON'T vote at all despite Fred's higher ratio of positive vs. negative percentages which have a direct correlation to how many monkeys it takes to peel 500 bananas on any given Tuesday given a constant environmental temperature of 25 Celsius?

Do I have that right?

A few weeks back, Rush explained the polling numbers for Mrs. Clinton like this:

Rush:...Then on the Drudge page today, Drudge links to a Camille Paglia column at Salon.com, and I love Camille Paglia as much as anybody does, I really do, but she makes the statement that Hillary makes Obama and Edwards look like shaky tyros. She doesn't make them look like shaky tyros, they are shaky tyros. She's not making them look like that. That's who these people are. But I thought everybody got this, and I think I'm going to have to spell this out. There's only one reason why the Breck Girl is a media star, and a couple reasons why Obama is a media star. But the real reason that they are media stars right now in terms of the Drive-By Media and are being pumped up is because they split the anti-Hillary vote, and the anti-Hillary vote, simple math, is much larger than the pro-Hillary vote.

Let me add it up for you. Hillary leads Obama 34-24. "Hooray for Hillary," goes the Drive-By Media, "look at that, she's leading Obama by ten points, why, that's fabulous. She can overcome obstacles." Hillary leads Edwards 34-10, "Hooray for Hillary, why, 24-point lead." Hillary even leads Algore who is not in the race 34-17, "Wow, look at Hillary Clinton, why, she's creaming all comers."

But if you take Algore and Obama and the Breck Girl out of this, Hillary would trail the not-Hillary-three 34-51. There's 51% of Democrat voters in these polls, if you add 'em up, who are not voting for Hillary. So of course these guys are tyros, and they're there to split the anti-Hillary vote, and that is how it's being made to appear in the Drive-By that she's just cleaning their clocks.But the dirty little secret here is look at the total vote, total polling data and you find that anybody but Hillary gets 51% of the Democrat votes and Hillary gets 34. This is called managing the news, and nobody does it better than Mrs. Clinton.

>> how many monkeys it takes to peel 500 bananas on any given Tuesday given a constant environmental temperature of 25 Celsius? Do I have that right? <<

No, I’m pretty sure there’s something to do with a Moose, Cheese or Spork Weasels. You owe the oracle a Rove-a-Matic 2008.