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In reply to the discussion: Just so you know, if Pelosi goes, she gets replaced with a centrist. [View all]Sen. Walter Sobchak
(8,692 posts)"95% of americans who would listen to talk radio" is like saying "95% of americans who use chewing tobacco" or 95% of americans who own electric vehicles". I think the number of people who have the attention span and inclination to listen to Rush Limbaugh ramble nonsense for any length of time is probably fairly static.
I know a lot of people who were really excited about Air America, or at least Al Franken - but within a week their dials had shifted back to KCRW or KROQ because in the absence of the need for a voice of authority, which liberals just don't have the appeal wore off quickly.
It isn't 1940, you don't need AM radio to reach people, my car left the factory without the radio antenna attached. I didn't notice, my father (then 82) had to point it out to me that my radio didn't work.