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Limbaugh Poll Rating
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Rush Limbaugh on Jan. 13, 2009 Conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh triggered a controversy earlier this year when he said he hoped the president's economic policies would fail. A new CBS News poll puts Limbaugh's favorable rating at just 19 percent.

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SteveAudio — ... the concerns he has been hearing from voters on the campaign trail have been local in nature, such as his support for lower property taxes, fiscal responsibility, and his opponent's appalling support for the AIG bonus loophole. That was his point and any effort to characterize it otherwise is a distortion of the facts." Here's how the Republican brand is doing lately: With numbers following this trend, why do these cowards follow a guy whose numbers are even lower: Over the past few weeks, the White House has been ...

Eric Cantor Predicts GOP House Takeover in 2010
Firedoglake — ... Keep praising super unpopular public figures, Eric. Electoral gold. Cantor said Republicans needed to express "contrition" for running up deficits in the early 00s and predicted his party was on pace to pick up a number of seats ...

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