I heard Rush on 2000 election day. He sounded definitely worried, even somewhat panicky, to me and was urging everybody repeatedly to get out and vote no matter what. I can confirm that he sure didn't sound like his old self. It made me concerned at the time, and just look what happened. I simply could not stand another 2000!
He knows we're listening and trying to determine the election results based on his mood. He may had other stimulates last time as well. I think he'll stay on this same level.
In re Election 2000 -- you might forget, Al Gore had already gotten the Daley "legal" machinery crows on airplanes headed to Florida. The zeroing in of Florida by "Gore team" began in the days leading up to Election 2000. I'll never forget it -- It was so obvious something was up. And in the days right after Election 2000, Hillary and Al Gore: "Need to Abolish that useless Electoral college stuff" - "Popular vote is all that should apply in the US..." Right. Like they, Dems, hadn't had this all mapped up pre election-night. They thought they really had it in the bag one way; when it was clear that Bush was the winner, despite "fraudulentbuthidden" efforts by Dems pre-vote... that's when "STRATEGY B" went into effect with Al Gore taking back his earlier concession speech to George Bush. Oh yea.. on west coast, I was up till 4am tracking cases of vote fraud online with pals throughout the us.. what a nightmare it all was.