RUSH: Get this, 75% of the votes in the Democrat primary will
come from New York City, the five boroughs. Seventy-five
percent of the votes in the Republican primary will not come from
Manhattan or the five boroughs. They'll come from -- what do
you call it, outstate, upstate, places like Binghamton.
Always love pronouncing it that way. But is that just tells
you who lives where.
The Democrat primary, 75% of all votes cast will come from New
York City. All the boroughs except Staten Island which is
reliably ours, but still a lot of Democrats there, but it's
fascinating that the vast majority of votes in the Republican
primary -- there be some from New York City, of course, but most of
them from outstate. Fascinating little stat that I had not
looked at it that way -- (interruption) upstate, outstate -- well,
outside the city, is what I mean. And I think everybody knows
what I mean. Why are you nitpicking here?
Look, what do you think I'm doing? My version of New
York values here? I'm not trying to insult anybody. I'm
just trying to categorize geographically various aspects the state.
Outcity, how about that, outcity? Outstate, upstate.
Everybody knows what I mean here.
Anyway, folks, two or three things here before we get into the
meat and potatoes of things today. First thing I want to tell
you about is Ed Morrissey. He has a book out, he asked me to blurb
it. I read the book and I wrote back, "Ed, this book's gonna
kick ass," and that's my blurb. (laughing) That's the blurb on the
cover of his book.
Ed Morrissey is a blogger. He started his own blog,
Captain's Quarters, and ended up merging with HotAir.com.
It's a great blog site. It actually is. It's really
diverse. But Ed is one of the intellectual leaders over there
with a couple of others. And he's written a book called
"Going Red." It's about how conservatives can win, and there are a
lot of those books, but his take on this is fascinating, and I just
wanted to mention it to you.
The book is out recently, "Going Red."
It's not about communism; it's about red states versus blue
states. But his point is that two million voters are going to
determine who wins the presidency. Two million voters in
seven counties across the country. I'm not gonna tell you
which counties. One of the counties is in Ohio, one's in
Florida, one's in Colorado. But that's as far as I'm going to
go.
They are seven battleground counties in swing states that the
Republicans have to win if the Republicans, and, more importantly,
conservatives are going to win this presidential election.
Every one of these seven counties voted for Obama in one or both of
the last two elections. But all of these seven counties are
now battleground, meaning up for grabs because of how bad the Obama
administration has been. And the door is open in these
important seven counties for Republicans to win them, and if they
do, it is Ed Morrissey's theory here, that they will thus win the
presidency.
And it's important to deal a blow... I mean, these seven
counties, again, went for Obama in either 2008 or 2012. And if they
go Republican, it would be a massive, massive slap in the face to
the left. The book is more than that; it tells you what went
wrong in 2008 and 2012 and what needs to change. Virginia is
one of the states where one of the counties is, obviously.
But it's a fascinating read; as I say, the book is kick ass.
That ended up being my blurb, and I just wanted to mention to
you.
You know, Ed was named Blogger of the Year at CPAC two or three
years ago, and they asked me, of course, to do the official
introduction via videotape. And I did. Ed said it was one of the
most impressive and meaningful days of his life, which I was very
appreciative of and I understood as well. And I think that his book
is something that a lot of you will enjoy. It's not just for wonks,
but, I mean, this is pretty specific. And, by the way, don't
get depressed. This is not meant to depress you that the
election depends on seven counties.
It's just his take on it, sort of like the theory on the
Electoral College. The Democrats start out with 200 votes in
the Electoral College, just because whoever their candidate is has
a D next to their name, which means they automatically win New York
and automatically win California. That's big. If they
ever get Texas, it's over, if they hold onto New York and
California. Then you throw Trump into this mix -- and
presuming that if he's the nominee, what does he do?
Does he upset that and put New York in play, for
example? You know, the polling data on the New York primary
today, if we are to believe it, says Trump is gonna win in a bigger
landslide than any of the polling data had suggested up 'til now.
And if something like that happens and you're talking about another
momentum shift -- which I think the New York media is already
beginning to establish as their narrative, that the momentum
shifted.
Even though Cruz is just killing it with all these delegate
battles, the New York media (which is Trump-centric) is trying to
shift the narrative now. And like I say, we've been in a
lull. We've had some days go by here where there hasn't been
anything to talk about, no hard results. All we've had is
theory, predictions, analysis. But now we're gonna get some more
hard results that are also called votes, and that will shift the
coverage on a dime, and that will start tonight.
Two more things I wanted to mention. Another book.
Pete Hegseth. You might have seen Pete
Hegseth on Fox now and then. He's a contributor. He has
a book coming out on May 3rd. I'll have more on that as we approach
the date, because it's really good. And, as they say in the
book world, "It's important as well."
