Glenn Beck planning something big for 2010 – even bigger than 9/12 march

According to the Atlantic (another liberal rag) Glenn Beck announced on his radio show yesterday, that Beck and some colleagues will soon announce a major nationwide mobilization project of some kind.

“If you think the 9/12 project was something…you ain’t seen nothing yet,”

he said (roughly).’

More from the story:

Beck appears to be building something. His television show audience is growing, despite a well-publicized boycott, and his radio show calls itself the third highest in the country. (Radio audience measurements can be fickle.) His newsletter has more than 750,000 subscribers. He’s authored three best-selling books. As the attention to Beck has increased — as Beck has become persona non grata among elites — who, let’s face it, also love to cover him as a phenomenon they can’t quite understand — Beck seems to enhanced his standing with his target audience.

Given that 2010 is an election year, it would be logical to assume that Beck is putting together a mass voter registration and mobilization project. It’s a tricky proposition. For one thing, conservative talk radio audiences — and Fox News viewers — tend to be registered voters and tend to have a pretty good sense of which party they’ll support. Growing the voter rolls has been a growth industry for Democrats, whose demographic base tends to be relatively unregistered as compared to the Republican Party’s. And Beck’s relationship with the official organs of the Republican Party is, to the say the least, strained. He doesn’t care for the national party, and they keep him at arm’s length.

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October 15, 2009 · Filed Under General Politics


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