The democrats are gleeful that Rush Limbaugh is popping out of his bubble to stir things up. Even David Plouffe has piled on.
While republicans see no harm (they are largely out of touch), democrats know this: Americans don't like Rush.
Sure, he has 20 million listeners (I think a good chunk of them are people who like to hate Limbaugh, and I'm skeptical about that number) but the bulk of Americans find him gross because somewhere along the way we've heard him say something racist (most recently he said he wasn't going to agree with Obama just because he's black) or something despicable.
We all heard Rush wish failure upon Obama's policies. Rush Limbaugh would rather be right at the cost of America.
Democrats have done polling:
Politico: The seeds were planted in October after Democracy Corps, the Democratic polling company run by Carville and Greenberg, included Limbaugh’s name in a survey and found that many Americans just don’t like him.
“His positives for voters under 40 was 11 percent,” Carville recalled with a degree of amazement, alluding to a question about whether voters had a positive or negative view of the talk show host.
Paul Begala, a close friend of Carville, Greenberg and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, said they found Limbaugh’s overall ratings were even lower than the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s controversial former pastor, and William Ayers, the domestic terrorist and Chicago resident who Republicans sought to tie to Obama during the campaign.
Then came what Begala called “the tripwire.”
“I hope he fails,” Limbaugh said of Obama on his show four days before the president was sworn in. It was a time when Obama’s approval ratings were soaring, but more than that, polls showed even people who didn’t vote for him badly wanted him to succeed, coming to office at a time of economic meltdown.
