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RUSH: Folks, there are a couple of polls out there today that are just outrageous. One is the CBS\/New York Times poll. The other is the Washington Post poll. I\u2019m telling you: They are irresponsible. They are designed to do exactly what I have warned you to be vigilant about, and that is to depress you and suppress your vote. These two polls today are designed to convince everybody this election is over. And Jan Crawford at CBS looks at one of these…<\/p>\n

Grab audio sound bite number six. She even says that. This is over because of this Ohio poll. It\u2019s not over! It hasn\u2019t even really begun yet. I don\u2019t want anybody thinking this is over. I don\u2019t want anybody falling for this. I\u2019ll analyze these polls and explain to you why they\u2019re bogus as the program unfolds. But here, on CBS This Morning, is Jan Crawford reporting on a new poll showing Obama with the lead.<\/p>\n

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CRAWFORD: Both candidates are focused on Ohio this week. It is getting tough here for Mitt Romney. Our latest poll now shows the president is up by 10 points. The poll shows the president also has a significant lead with women voters in all three of those swing states that we surveyed. But here in Ohio the president is up by 25 points with women voters. Now, today Romney will be focused on the economy. That\u2019s an issue that\u2019s been the cornerstone of his campaign, but there\u2019s trouble in our poll there for Romney, too! In our poll, for the first time, the president has taken a lead on that key issue in all three states.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That makes a lot of sense, doesn\u2019t it? Obama\u2019s ahead by 25 points with women in Ohio, and is finally taking a lead over Romney on the economy. Yeah, \u2019cause the economy\u2019s gotten so much better in the last week. If it\u2019s this good for Obama, I have a bunch of questions, but one central question: Why is he there? Why is he campaigning in Ohio today? If it\u2019s that wrapped up and he\u2019s got a 10-point lead, why is he there? Why not go to some other state where it\u2019s not that big a lead?<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let\u2019s look at this poll. In fact, let\u2019s look at all of them. The mainstream media\u2019s… No, I\u2019m not through with my Obama rant. I barely got started on that. I\u2019m just melding it all here into one perfect presentation. The mainstream media\u2019s efforts to suppress your vote is now at full speed. It\u2019s getting tiresome to me, but it is taking place now at full speed. Every day I get e-mails from people, “So how do you feel about it today, Rush?” Every day people looking to me for guidance and leadership ask, “How do you feel about it today?”<\/p>\n

“I don\u2019t know. I think it\u2019s lost today.”<\/p>\n

(panicked) “You really do?”<\/p>\n

“No, no, no. What do you expect me to say?”<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s a roller coaster. It is. This is why… I talked about it yesterday. Why do you think so many people in this country are stupid? <\/a>‘Cause of polls like this! Obama\u2019s leading Romney in Ohio on a question of who\u2019s better suited to run the US economy for the first time in the campaign? Why does that make any sense? How does that make any sense at all? The economy\u2019s getting worse! So this effort to suppress your vote and depress you at the same time, folks? They\u2019re ratcheting it up.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re trying to wrap this up before the debates even start, because I think they\u2019re worried about the debates. I think they\u2019re trying to get this election finished and in the can by suppressing your vote and depressing you so that you just don\u2019t think there\u2019s any reason to vote, that it\u2019s hopeless. They want you making other plans. We are told that according to the latest New York Times\/Quinnipiac\/CBS News poll, Obama is leading Romney by nine points in Florida, by ten points in Ohio, and by 12 points in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

All among likely voters.<\/p>\n

If that\u2019s true, it\u2019s over. If that\u2019s true, it\u2019s over, because there\u2019s no way to recover that kind of ground in the number of days left. So the question is: Is this true? Is it anywhere near true? Well, the pollsters will all tell you, “What\u2019s in it for us to be wrong?” But, folks, these pollsters can massage the sample in any number of ways to get what they want out of a given poll, and they will always be able to go back and say, “According to that sample, our poll was right on the money.”<\/p>\n

The problem out there is Rasmussen. Rasmussen has the race tied at 46, and Rasmussen has been one of the leading polling units in presidential races for a long time. So here comes CBS, the New York Times, and Quinnipiac. They\u2019ve got this race over in these three swing states, and yet, there\u2019s Rasmussen out there today: 46-46. There\u2019s Gallup out there. Gallup doesn\u2019t show any of this, and Gallup\u2019s got Obama disapproval rising. It\u2019s all over the place: Nine points in Florida, ten points Ohio, 12 points in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

What we aren\u2019t told? Let me tell you what we\u2019re not told (and this according to their own data): They oversample Democrats by 7% in Florida, where Obama is up by nine points. They oversample Democrats by 11 points in Pennsylvania, where Obama is up 12. They oversample Democrats. Here are the numbers. In Florida: Democrat 43%, Republican 36%, independent 1%. In Pennsylvania: 48% Democrat, 37% Republican, independents 1%.<\/p>\n

So you have an 11%-plus advantage for Democrats in Pennsylvania and a 7% Democrat plus advantage in Florida. What they\u2019re telling us… What\u2019s this guy\u2019s name at Quinnipiac? Miringoff. Lee Miringoff runs this. What he\u2019s saying is that he expects the turnout in, let\u2019s say Florida, to be 43% Democrats, 36% Republican, and 1% independent. That\u2019s what he expects turnout to be. These guys are going back and using the turnout from 2004 and 2008. They\u2019re ignoring 2010.<\/p>\n

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Every one of these polls is ignoring the actual turnout in 2010, which was a referendum on Obama and was a referendum on health care. They\u2019re using turnout in previous elections where Democrats came close or won, say, congressional races — Senate races — in off-year presidential years, such as 2006. And, of course, 2008 when Obama won by seven, they go back and use that turnout. But does anybody expect that to be the case? Do they really expect that in Florida…<\/p>\n

I saw a story. I can\u2019t remember where. It was either the beginning of this week or late last week about Romney really gaining ground in Florida. He was just going gangbusters with crowds larger than anybody\u2019d ever seen. And it was a news story, not a poll story. And here comes this thing, the CBS\/New York Times\/Quinnipiac poll. So they expect that the turnout in Florida is gonna be 43% Democrat and 36% Republican.<\/p>\n

In Pennsylvania, Mr. Miringoff is telling us that he expects the turnout in November to be 48% Democrat and 37% Republican. So 11% more Democrats are gonna vote in November in Pennsylvania than Republicans. That\u2019s what they\u2019re trying to make reality, by the way. This is what they\u2019re trying to create. They want you so depressed, only 37% of you show up. In Ohio — in Ohio now — where they have Romney down by ten, they didn\u2019t even report party affiliation.<\/p>\n

They didn\u2019t even ask party affiliation in Ohio. We don\u2019t know what it is. Their own poll does not tell us. They list something called “N\/A,” which I guess means “not available.” So we don\u2019t know how many Democrats are in the Ohio sample. We don\u2019t know how many Republicans or independents are in the Ohio sample. All we know is that CBS\/New York Times is telling us that Obama is up ten in Ohio, he\u2019s up 25 with women in Ohio, and in Ohio they think Obama is the guy to fix the economy.<\/p>\n

But they don\u2019t tell us what the party affiliation of the respondents in their poll was. Now, as we\u2019ve noted before: The poll numbers do not reflect the party affiliation in the country as found by the latest Rasmussen poll of party affiliation which goes back to August 31st. On August 31st Rasmussen reported that people identified themselves as Republican 37.6%, Democrat 33%, independent 29%. So why are the polls oversampling the Democrats by anywhere from seven to 11 points?<\/p>\n

Do they not believe Rasmussen?<\/p>\n

Obviously not.<\/p>\n

What are we to do, though? What are you to believe? Here\u2019s Rasmussen August 31st: Latest national party affiliation, Republicans up four over Democrats. That\u2019s never reflected in any poll. If, by the way, you do that, if you take all these polls and you change the samples… Some guy did this at Unskewed Polls or some such thing the other day. It\u2019s been all over the Internet. If you do this, if you take every one of these polls and you exchange the sample for what Rasmussen found?<\/p>\n

You find Romney up by anywhere from six to nine points, and, in some cases, ten points. That\u2019s if you use an accurate sample of Republicans and Democrats as reflected by Rasmussen\u2019s party affiliation reported on August 31st. They\u2019re maybe even not even using Rasmussen. They may just be using actual turnout numbers in previous elections. You don\u2019t even have to use Rasmussen. One more thing I want to add to this for you to consider.<\/p>\n

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In this CBS poll, there aren\u2019t any independents. There\u2019s 1% independent in the poll in Florida, 1% in Pennsylvania, and they don\u2019t tell us the breakdown in Ohio. But yet Rasmussen found 29.2% of Americans identify themselves as independents. Mr. Miringoff at Quinnipiac here used 1%. There\u2019s also no mention that all of their sampling is based on past exit polls.<\/p>\n

How else are they gonna know? They don\u2019t have access to the ballots, I don\u2019t think. Maybe they do, but they\u2019re using exit polls in order to determine the turnout in previous elections. They\u2019re using exit polls! Well, we know how notoriously inaccurate they are. Then you throw in the fact that more and more people are not using land lines. More people use cell phones, but it\u2019s land lines that the pollsters use.<\/p>\n

No, I am not grasping at straws. I want to make this very clear. I am not looking at situation where I know but I\u2019m not telling you, that I think it\u2019s over. That\u2019s not the case at all. I\u2019m not sitting here trying to be falsely positive or optimistic or anything. I\u2019m trying to analyze this stuff as honestly as I can. I don\u2019t understand, when I hear Obama up 25 with women in Ohio, I don\u2019t understand that. I haven\u2019t seen anything in the news in the last three months, two weeks, whatever, to reflect that. What would have caused Romney to plummet by that much with women? What, on the other hand, would have caused Obama to magically surpass Romney on the question of who\u2019s better able to handle the economy? What\u2019s happened? Where has it gotten better and you can tie Obama to it? People say, “Well, it may not be that, Rush. It may just be that people think the incumbent is the best guy. They don\u2019t want to change horses in the middle of the stream.” <\/p>\n

Okay. Well, that\u2019s not what the pollsters are saying. But, okay, if you want to say that. It could also be the Wilder Effect. It could be that people just don\u2019t want to admit that they\u2019re not gonna vote again for the first black president. In fact, I\u2019ve got it here somewhere. I don\u2019t know what number it is. Doesn\u2019t matter. Don\u2019t tell me, not enough time to play it right now. Some reporter asked Romney, “How are you gonna feel if you\u2019re the one that actually defeats the first black president? I mean, what do you think that\u2019s gonna say about you? What will you tell black America? You\u2019re the guy that beat the first black president.” Jim Acosta\u2019s at CNN, Situation Room, Jim Acosta interviewing Romney, and it\u2019s sound bite seven and eight. Here\u2019s the first one.<\/p>\n

ACOSTA: African-Americans have a tremendous sense of pride that there\u2019s the first African-American president in the White House. If you were to somehow beat the first African-American president, what would you say to the black community to assure them that you would be their president also?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. So let\u2019s point a gun at Romney and, say, “Okay, you beat the first black president. What are you gonna say to African-Americans?” And here\u2019s what Romney said.<\/p>\n

ROMNEY: I want to be the president of all the people of America. You don\u2019t get into a race like this, with myself and my family, and do the kind of work and commitment that we have put forward without the passion to help all of America. And the people who really need the help right now are the people in the middle class, people who have fallen into poverty. I know how to get them help. The president doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I gotta take a break. We\u2019ll be back. Don\u2019t go away focusing. We\u2019re only just getting started here.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: There\u2019s something else going on with this polling data. Early voting is taking place. Everybody wants to be on the winning side. If you put a poll out, early voting in Ohio and Obama\u2019s up ten, 25 points with women and you\u2019re Republican, “Ah, to hell with it.” Do you know early voting, as many Republicans as Democrats vote but you just never hear about it. Everybody thinks early voting is Democrats only. That\u2019s why you get depressed. You think the only people early voting are Democrats and the only people early registering are Democrats. We are out there, too. Don\u2019t doubt me. Our grassroots people on the ground are getting this done. No, I don\u2019t like early voting, but we\u2019ll save that for another time. It\u2019s there, it\u2019s a reality, have to deal with it, but I think it\u2019s bogus. We got one Election Day. And Obama\u2019s out there, by the way, trying to suppress military votes in some state, I forget where that is. Maybe Iowa. <\/p>\n

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Why\u2019s Obama in Ohio? If he\u2019s 25 up with women, if he\u2019s ten points up overall, why is he there? Other than he wants a slam-dunk win. Go someplace where it\u2019s a little tighter and spend money there. What\u2019s he doing in all these states that he supposedly has locked up? I\u2019ll tell you something else about this, folks, and I want you to really consider this. I take you back to 2004. We had the first wave of exit polls at two o\u2019clock and it looked bad. I mean, it was huge. Kerry was winning. Five o\u2019clock, second wave, exit polls, even worse, Kerry winning. And there was a story that Bob Shrum, who was Kerry\u2019s campaign guy, walked into his office and said, “May I be the first to say, Congratulations, Mr. President.” The polls hadn\u2019t even closed. When the actual votes started being counted, the exit polls were as wrong as they could be. <\/p>\n

And then what happened? The Democrats started accusing everybody of cheating. Remember? Fifty-five thousand votes in Ohio, if we just swung fifty-five thousand votes in Ohio then Kerry\u2019d be president. They actually, these numskulls on the left actually believed the exit polls were right, the real votes were tampered with. So if you have nothing leading up to this election but one poll after another with Obama up five, up ten, up 12, up eight, up seven, and Romney wins, then what happens? Then you\u2019ve got riots. I\u2019m just throwing out a possibility. <\/p>\n

There could be a lot of political reasons why all this… You got early voting, and you\u2019ve got an attempt here to set up the idea that there has to have been some fraud because every poll had Obama winning by double digits or high single digits, and then Romney wins by five points, the left, you know these people. The first thing they\u2019re gonna think of is they had the election stolen from \u2019em and they\u2019re gonna start raising holy hell. The real vote will not matter to them if it\u2019s that drastically different from all these polls. Hillary Clinton told an ACORN audience that elections were stolen in Ohio in 2004. She told an ACORN audience that. They\u2019re not incapable of all this. They\u2019re totally capable of everything I have been and will be describing to you. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: And the views expressed by the host on this program are now documented to be almost always right 99.7% of the time. I\u2019m gonna make a prediction right now: If I end up being right about these polls, I\u2019m gonna shoot up to 99.8% by the time we get to December because I haven\u2019t been wrong about anything. You\u2019ve gotta be right a long time to move it up even a tenth of a point when you\u2019re already up at 99.7 almost always right.<\/p>\n

Now, this poll that we dissected in the previous hour, that\u2019s just the New York Times\/CBS\/Quinnipiac poll. As we\u2019ve noted before… I can\u2019t repeat the first hour. I\u2019ve got too much to do. If you missed the first hour go to RushLimbaugh.com and relive it. If you missed it, it\u2019s too big. You are going to want to hear it. As we pointed out, these poll numbers do not reflect the party affiliation in the country as found by Rasmussen on August 31st.<\/p>\n

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Rasmussen found nationwide people ID themselves: 37.6% Republican, 33.3% Democrat. That\u2019s Republicans plus four. You go conservative\/liberal, it\u2019s 40\/20 — 40% say they\u2019re conservative, 20% say they\u2019re liberal (and 29% say they\u2019re independent). Yet the polls are oversampling the Democrats by eight to ten points, 11 points in Pennsylvania. Eleven points! Again, that\u2019s based on what they\u2019re projecting the turnout to be in November. Of course, folks, just to rub some salt in the wound here…<\/p>\n

I mentioned the Rasmussen poll that has Romney and Obama tied today at 46% each. If you include “leaners,” people that are undecided but tell the pollster they\u2019re leaning in a particular direction, Romney goes up by two. If you include “leaners” in the Rasmussen poll, then you get 48-46 Romney. So in the Rasmussen poll, anyway, Romney is leading the race by two points, and Rasmussen was the most accurate in 2008. I have the list of which presidential polls were the most accurate in 2008.<\/p>\n

Number one was Rasmussen, number two was the Peeeeeeew Center, number three was YouGov, number four Harris Interactive, number five was Lake\/Tarrance, number six Diageo Hotline. Marist was 18, and that\u2019s the CBS poll. No, I take it back. Quinnipiac. Quinnipiac. Yeah, Marist\/Quinnipiac, same thing. Yep, 18. CBS 19 in 2008. Gallup was number 20. Reuters was number 21. CBS\/New York Times was number 22. Newsweek was number 23. Fox was number 13.<\/p>\n

CNN was number eight, tied with Ipsos\/McClatchy. Number 11 was AP. Number 12 was the Democracy Corps. (Fox was 13, as I said.) The Economist was number 14. NBC\/Wall Street Journal was 16. Rasmussen was number one! They now have Romney up by two, factoring in “leaners.” These are the polls that were the most accurate in 2008. So this CBS\/New York Times poll (which is Quinnipiac) that has Obama up by nine in Florida, ten in Pennsylvania, 12 in Pennsylvania, and ten in Ohio?<\/p>\n

These guys were 18th and 19th in accurate in 2008. Okay? So, yeah, I love throwing a little cold water on these guys with the Rasmussen poll. Now, there\u2019s one more here. This from the Washington Post. It\u2019s by Dan Balz and Jon Cohen: “President Obama is threatening Mitt Romney\u00c2\u2019s best route to victory in the electoral college, grabbing a significant lead over his Republican challenger in Ohio and a slender edge in Florida, according to two new polls by The Washington Post. …<\/p>\n

“In the presidential race, Obama is ahead of Romney in Ohio by 52% to 44% among likely voters.” So the Washington Post has it eight points among likely voters. In Florida, it\u2019s four points Obama: 51-47. You know, the gloves are really coming off here, folks. I think they\u2019re trying to wrap this all up before the debate. I think they\u2019re trying to wrap this up before the debate. They\u2019re going all-in for Obama now.<\/p>\n

You notice that in Ohio, Obama is only leading Romney by eight even when they oversample the Democrats by seven? In this poll, by the way… Are you sitting down? In the ABC\/Washington Post poll, they oversampled Democrats by seven points! How in the world…? If I\u2019m reading this right, how in the world do you do that? They oversample Democrats in Florida by ten points. It\u2019s just unbelievable.<\/p>\n

Imagine what the real numbers must be. There\u2019s no way that there\u2019s going to be 7% more turnout of Democrats over Republicans. It\u2019s 7% that Washington Post oversamples the Democrats in Ohio. It\u2019s ten points in Florida, seven points in Ohio. I would love to repeat some of the stuff in the first hour but I must move forward. But there could be a lot of reasons for this. Voter suppression, voter depression, set up the possibility of allegations of voter fraud.<\/p>\n

They have all these polls with Obama running away with this<\/a>, and then say Romney wins. Guess what happens? People blow a gasket on the left. There\u2019s also early voting going on, and they know this stuff is not reported to reflect opinion. They\u2019re trying to shape opinion with these polls. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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