About Those 25 Million Listeners

Apparently the notion that Rush Limbaugh now has 25 million listeners is a result of some pretty fuzzy math. Keith Olberman took a look at the numbers and made the case last night that its more like 2 or 3 million listeners. Take a look.

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So the Congressional Republicans are trying their best to appeal to at most about 4 million people who listen to Rush Limbaugh and Limbaugh himself whose approval ratings are lower than President George W Bush's ever were. When you put it in that context it all makes sense. It also is instructive on why the Republican Party is going to get rolled again next year. When the fringe of the country and your party is driving your agenda then you are going to get killed at the ballot box. Of course it could be imagined that the fringe is actually the mainstream of the Republican Party now.