{"id":14431,"date":"2012-09-28T17:24:31","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T17:24:31","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-09-28T17:24:31","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T17:24:31","slug":"stephen_hayes_with_our_meme_of_the_day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/09\/28\/stephen_hayes_with_our_meme_of_the_day\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Hayes with Our Meme of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: What we\u2019re doing here today, folks, is we\u2019ve got a theme<\/a> that has been established for the day, and that is: “The race is over.” Yeah, Romney gave it a pretty pathetic shot, but it\u2019s over. All the economic news is good. Obama\u2019s a net job creator now! AP says so.<\/a> Right here, it\u2019s coming up. Obama is a net job creator now. That\u2019s how good the economy is. Besides, it is said the reason for Obama pulling ahead in these polls is the Clinton bump from the Democrat convention, that he made sure everybody understood that Obama cares. <\/p>\n

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He really, really cares about people, and he\u2019s working really hard, and there\u2019s nobody who coulda done any better. Not any former president, including Clinton himself — nobody — coulda done any better. I\u2019ve had some e-mails. “I haven\u2019t heard that, Rush. What, are you just making this up trying to tick us off?” No. No. Here it is. This was on Fox News Channel at about, I don\u2019t know, since the 11 o\u2019clock hour this morning. Steve Hayes from the Weekly Standard was a guest. He\u2019s talking to fill-in host Gregg Jarrett.<\/p>\n

HAYES: There\u2019s no question that President Obama came out of the conventions with a — a — a little bit of momentum. And you talk — you know, it\u2019s not only showing up in — in the public polling that we\u2019re talking about here today, but you talk to Republican pollsters who are polling on Senate and House races, and they will talk about what they call “the Clinton bump.” They\u2019ve seen it across polling in various parts of the country that voters who are — are — are asked the question about, “Is the country on the right track; is the country on the wrong track?” w-w-which most pollsters believe is the single best determinant of who will win in November, there was a jump in the “right track” number on the general question of whether we\u2019re on the right track. They think we are. And it\u2019s because, I think, in part Democrats have successfully pressed this message that nobody could have done better than President Obama\u2019s done.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So that\u2019s Steve Hayes of the Weekly Standard citing Republican pollsters in House and Senate races. There\u2019s the Clinton bump and on the right track number, the country\u2019s now headed in the right track. That\u2019s what the polling all shows, Republican polling. We\u2019re headed on the right track. It\u2019s because of the Clinton bump, it\u2019s \u2019cause nobody coulda done better than Obama. Nobody coulda done better than Obama did. <\/p>\n

It was that bad. It was that big a mess. I haven\u2019t been making this up. I\u2019m not trying to stir things up. I\u2019m telling you this is the operative narrative out there. That\u2019s on the Fox News Channel this morning.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here. Stack of Stuff. Stack of Stuff. What I\u2019m doing here is I\u2019m just peeling off the top. I haven\u2019t put anything in order. Just random news for the heck of it. This is NBC News: “President Barack Obama leads Republican presidential nominee [Governor] Mitt Romney in New Hampshire, and the two are locked in tight contests in Nevada and North Carolina, according to a new series of NBC News\/Wall Street Journal\/Marist polls released Thursday.<\/line><\/p>\n

“Obama is ahead of Romney, 51% to 44%, among likely voters in New Hampshire. He also edges Romney in Nevada and North Carolina, but within the margin of error.” As usual, by the way, I should point out, all three of these polls oversampled Democrats even among likely voters. The oversampling generally takes place in the registered voter poll. In the likely voter poll that usually doesn\u2019t happen, but they did it here.<\/p>\n

In New Hampshire they oversampled Democrats by 5%. <\/p>\n

In Nevada they also oversampled by 5%. <\/p>\n

In North Carolina, they oversampled Democrats by 6%. <\/p>\n

But in this story, there\u2019s a hidden second story that the headline doesn\u2019t really cover. The headline: ” Polls: Obama Leads in NH, Tighter in Nev., NC.” Now, hidden in this story… Actually it\u2019s not hidden in this story. I made a note. It\u2019s in a separate story, but Fox News is reporting that voter registration in Ohio is down by 490,000 people from four years ago, and 44% of those 490,000 people is Cleveland. Now, who lives in Cleveland? Democrats. <\/p>\n

And this woman, who wanted a phone <\/a>from Obama and got one.<\/p>\n