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Top Democrats believe they have struck political gold by depicting Rush Limbaugh as the new face of the Republican Party,

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Top Democrats believe they have struck political gold by depicting Rush Limbaugh as the new face of the Republican Party, a full-scale effort first hatched by some of the most familiar names in politics and now being guided in part from inside the White House.

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"The administration is enabling me,” he wrote in an e-mail to POLITICO. “They are expanding my profile, expanding my audience and expanding my influence. An ever larger number of people are now being exposed to the antidote to Obamaism: conservatism, as articulated by me. An ever larger number of people are now exposed to substantive warnings, analysis and criticism of Obama's policies and intentions, a ‘story’ I own because the [mainstream media] is largely the Obama Press Office.”

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included Limbaugh’s name in a survey and found that many Americans just don’t like him.

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“His positives for voters under 40 was 11 percent,”

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“I hope he fails,”

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polls showed even people who didn’t vote for him badly wanted him to succeed, coming to office at a time of economic meltdown.

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