to get punished if i vote against background checks now they re looking and saying, wait a minute, i might pick up percentage points from both parties if i support background checks for criminals, terrorists, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. this is a winner. and mark prior would mark prior like to gain five points in the polls or lose five points in the polls? does he want to win or lose? i think it would be an interesting realtime political science experiment if they have another vote in the next month after these politicians have looked in the polls to see what reaction they do have to it. if it does have an effect in new hampshire, in arkansas.
pretty damn good. and to that point, just quickly, political scientists have long had this argument, do campaigns and candidates even matter or is it just driven by the economic data? so in this way this campaign really is an interesting political science experiment, and what we re seeing so far is that campaigns do matter and candidates do matter, and i think democrats learned that to a large extent in 2004 when we were very upset with president bush but weren t too enamored with our guy we put forward, john kerry. that s not enough. you have to really like and believe in the person you re putting forward. but krystal limbaugh isn t talking about just losing the election. he s talking about the republican party being replaced by a new third party. given the kinds of things that rush limbaugh says, what kind of party would that look like? it is a scary thought. i think partly rush is just trying to really beat the drums to get people terrified so they