One Big Difference Between Today and 1980

Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | November 7, 2016 | Rush Limbaugh

[Kaslin]

Ronald Reagan was the first president I voted for in the 1980 general election. Rush describes exactly how I felt during the primaries. I thought, like so many, oh he is just an actor. I voted for John Anderson. I voted for Ronald Reagan in the general election and I did not regret it.

I voted for him again in 1984 primary and general election.

[Faith65]

The real answer-

the dems have gotten better at stealing elections.

[Buckeye McFrog]

We need to start working on a Constitutional Amendment to ban early voting.

[Reily]

I voted for Phil Crane in the primary. I viewed Reagan then as too liberal & not enough of a libertarian Constitutionalist.

[PermaRag]

Another big difference is the number of anti-American racists and welfare animals on the voter rolls, all permanently chained to the Democrat plantation.

If Mitt Romney was wrong about his so-called 47%, it was that he had the figure too low and it only ever moves in one direction.

[BenLurkin]

Sad. But true.

[MeganC]

Rush is forgetting that the election may end up hinging on the hundreds of thousands of fictitious Democrats who’ve been registered to vote across the country.

The vote fraud is far worse now than it was in 1980 and where it will be obvious is in precincts that go for Trump at the polling place while going 50:1 in mail-in ballots.

They can still steal this election from us and I have not one doubt that they’ll try.

[miss marmelstein]

Rush was excellent today. If he had done what he did today directly after the convention, there would be no Never Trumpers. Great show!

[bigbob]

Rush is correct here, but Pat Caddell’s essay is probably the single best thing written about the 2016 election, and I really encourage FReepers to find that thread and read the whole thing for themselves.

[NYer]

Thanks for posting! I remember the 1980 election as well. It is one of the last times the State of NY turned red.

Rush also devoted a great deal of time to the poll numbers showing Clinton up. He makes an excellent point:

You look at the size of these Trump rallies. In Minnesota, one of the Powerline guys was reporting, he was out driving around yesterday and maybe on the way to church, I forget exactly the specific reason he was out, but he encountered a line of human beings a mile and a half long to get into a Trump rally. He encountered a parking lot that had never existed before where all of the cars that brought those people to the Trump rally.

It's this way everywhere Trump is going. The crowds are massive. They are lining up for hours to get in. Meanwhile, Joe Biden is drawing 200 people in Pennsylvania. Tim Kaine drawing 30, 35 people wherever he goes. Hillary Clinton is drawing 10,000 people but she needs Jay Z and Beyoncé in very little clothing in order to get that 10,000. She's got Springstein going to Philadelphia tonight. Why wasn't Jay Z and Beyoncé and Hillary in Philadelphia on Friday, why wasn't that enough? Springstein is going in there tonight.
Polls Are Still Being Used as Weapons -- And Nobody Knows What Will Happen

[Just mythoughts]

Rush is so LAZY... plus he is ‘best’ friends with that nicest guy Romney. IF Trump dethrones Jezebel, Rush will be sure to take credit.

[MountainWalker]

Can it be done statutorily? It says in the Constitution which day election day is.

I’d say we should just make it a holiday and ban all early voting, absentee OK for deployed troops and government officials. Maybe also if you can prove you’re in the hospital or otherwise medically indisposed.

At the rate we’re going, it won’t matter unless Trump is elected tomorrow. Democrats will be having people voting by smartphone soon if we can’t stop this trend.

[odawg]

The early voting thing that prevents a late surge is nonsense. The pressure is on the pundits to come up with something original sounding to fill up air time and make themselves look brilliant.

What has been called a late surge is merely people acting on what has been in the back of their minds for a spell.

[Zionist Conspirator]

I voted for Phil Crane in the primary. I viewed Reagan then as too liberal

Lol! So did I! Though I voted for Reagan in the 1976 Presidential primary. It was the first vote I ever cast.

[Aetius]

One big difference? That would be demographics. Reagan carried about 58-59% of whites in 1980 and won a landslide as a result. Bush the Elder did about the same in 1988 and won a similar landslide. W did about the same in 2004 and won an uncomfortably close reelection. Romney carried about the same and lost easily to Obama.

I hope Trump wins. I think he has a decent chance, but demographics make it much harder for him than it was for Reagan.

[T-Bird45]

I was in the US Army in W. Germany so I had to vote absentee. In fact, “Voting Officer” was one of my extra duties. I sent off for my packet and received it in time to vote and return it. My wife’s packet was never received. The fact that absentee ballots rarely get counted is disconcerting.

[Buckeye McFrog]

There is a lot of anecdotal evidence that Trump is doing unusually well with minority voters.

[MeganC]

Thank you for the note!

By the way, God bless you and yours and may He keep them safe in the days to come!

- Megan

[Elsie]

Between Today and 1980 is about 36 years.

CHOICE killed ~36,000,000 future American citizens in this amount of time.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I am in Pennsylvania and there is no early voting here.

We have absentee ballots. I was going to be out of the state one year on Election Day and had to vote absentee. You had to swear out an affidavit that you would be unable to go to the polls on that day for a specific reason.

Seemed entirely reasonable to me.