Liberals are still coming to grips with the epic shellacking suffered by Democrats across the nation in this year's midterm elections. It wasn't a surprise in the least to Rush Limbaugh, the self-proclaimed "Doctor of Democracy" who saw it coming last winter.
On his radio show yesterday, after playing an apropos clip of the Beach Boys' bouncy "Catch a Wave," Limbaugh reminded viewers of his nailed-it prophecy (audio) --
(FEB. 13): I think if the election in November were today it would be a wave election that would make 2010 look small. I think that the American people, the polling data is all there, there isn't any majority of people, other than subsets of Democrats, who support anything Obama's doing. In national poll after national poll, a majority of Americans oppose everything Obama is doing. A Fox News poll came out yesterday and a huge number of people do not like Obama ignoring the Constitution. A huge percentage are very opposed to this lawless behavior of his. There's another factor that is going to lead to a wave election, I mean, massive Democrat defeats, massive Democrat losses in November.
(NOV. 5): The losses were so massive that the polls got many of them wrong. The polls missed so much it's incredible what happened yesterday. This election yesterday is even bigger and has more impact than even is being admitted to. The full scope of this defeat, the full meaning of this defeat has not set in with most people because they're in a state of denial. Particularly the Democrats and their buddies in the media, they're trying to tell themselves it was an anti-incumbent election, that it was not a rejection of Obama, that wasn't a rejection of Democrat policies, it was just, you know, the confluence of events and timing and, uh, it's just, people wanted a change! It was a repudiation of the Democrat party, again. It was another repudiation of Barack Obama. It was a repudiation of his policies and the direction he's taking the country. This was a rejection of Democrat incumbents.
Speaking of predictions, Rachel Maddow gushed over the predictive power of pollster Sam Wang on her MSNBC show September 3 -- much closer to the election than Limbaugh's prognostication from seven months earlier. And what was Wang saying in early September about the midterms? That Democrats had a 78 percent chance of retaining control of the Senate. (Up from 70 percent!) (h/t, Ann Coulter).
OK, so that was in September. What was Wang predicting as of 2 p.m. on election day? Looks like he had finally come around -- but still gave Democrats a better than one-in-three chance of controlling the Senate.
