{"id":14561,"date":"2012-09-17T17:47:39","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T17:47:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-09-17T17:47:39","modified_gmt":"2012-09-17T17:47:39","slug":"which_campaign_is_in_disarray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/09\/17\/which_campaign_is_in_disarray\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Campaign is in Disarray?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: A rising number of stories about the disarray the Romney campaign is in.  And, in fact, if you listen to the Fox News Channel, you can hear certain conservatives say the same thing.  The reason these conservatives are saying that is \u2019cause they\u2019re not getting out of the campaign what they would do if they were campaigning.  So the foreign policy crowd in the Republican Party is upset that Romney is not talking enough about that. The social issues crowd is upset that he\u2019s not talking enough about that.  And the economic crowd is upset that he\u2019s not talking enough about that. <\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_67021\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RomneyObama_Pix.jpg\"\/><BR\/><a view=\"line\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=14563\">But if you ask me, the real disarray is in the Obama administration<\/a>, not the least of which would include the campaign.  <a view=\"line\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=14638\">We were talking about the media bubble last week.<\/a>  It\u2019s clear what\u2019s happened.  The order has gone out from on high that the Romney camp is in disarray.  That\u2019s the narrative, and it\u2019s to cover up the fact that there is an implosion going on in this administration.  How in the world can this administration and this campaign of Obama\u2019s not be in disarray?  Look at what they\u2019ve got to deal with.  They have destroyed the US middle class.  They are destroying the American economy.  Foreign policy is an embarrassment.  We weren\u2019t prepared for attacks on our embassies on 9\/11. They\u2019re blaming it on a YouTube video.  The glaring incompetence, anybody willing to spend more than five minutes looking, the path takes you right to the White House. <\/line><\/p>\n<p>So we get all these stories about the disarray in the <a view=\"line\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=14563\">Romney campaign<\/a>: how Romney\u2019s not doing this and Romney\u2019s not doing that and Romney\u2019s not doing the right thing on foreign policy and Romney\u2019s not doing this and so forth.  Let me tell you something.  I got a story here.  Associated Press, it cleared yesterday.  &#8220;President Barack Obama will launch a new trade enforcement case against China Monday, using the power of incumbency to counter Republican Mitt Romney\u00c2\u2019s criticism that he is ceding American jobs to the Asian power.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I saw the ad.  You know, I don\u2019t actually see too many political ads, because I don\u2019t watch local TV.  So I don\u2019t see, for example, the local ads that would be running on local TV stations here where I live.  I never have, other than when you have to to watch a football game.  But I watch DirecTV.  Now, my local stations are what\u2019s on local TV, local networks, but I fast forward through commercials. I don\u2019t see them, but I did happen to see a Romney ad ripping into Obama for not holding the ChiComs to task, fairness in trade matters and other things.  And then lo and behold here comes this Obama story.  Obama is spontaneously reacting to every criticism Romney made in that ad within a day or two. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"585\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/58pq658byzI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So Romney goes out and accuses Obama of incompetence, malfeasance or whatever.  Boneheaded policy.  And within a day or two, Obama responds to the ad and does exactly what Romney says he\u2019s not doing.  In other words, Obama goes out and fixes it.  It means Romney\u2019s on to something.  I saw the ad, and to be honest with you, &#8220;What the hell is this?  A campaign issue?  Fairness with the ChiComs?  I mean, with everything else out there, is that how we\u2019re gonna change minds?&#8221;  Apparently the regime thinks so because they got in gear and sent this AP story: &#8220;Obama to Launch China Trade Case.&#8221; It\u2019s exactly what Romney\u2019s ad was.  That China is engaging in unfair trade practices and Obama doesn\u2019t care, and Obama isn\u2019t doing anything about it.  Bammo, Obama goes out.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the AP doesn\u2019t say that Romney\u2019s ad ran.  It doesn\u2019t say that Obama\u2019s responding.  Given the idiots in this country and what they pay attention to and don\u2019t, who knows how many are gonna put it together themselves that Obama is responding to Romney, but the fact is he is.  So again, we got a fake narrative, a phony meme out there that the Romney campaign is unraveling and not organized when in fact it\u2019s Obama\u2019s entire administration that is, and therefore the country and his campaign as well.  Both sides have supporters who are saying, &#8220;My gosh, I can\u2019t believe&#8230;&#8221;  The Romney camp says, &#8220;Why is this race so close? Romney ought to be up ten, 15 points, given the economy, given all that.&#8221;  And the Obama people are saying, &#8220;Why aren\u2019t we 15 points up?&#8221;  &#8216;Cause they\u2019ve launched everything they\u2019ve got at Romney, and he\u2019s still there. <\/p>\n<p><a view=\"line\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=15162\">They called him a felon.<\/a> <a view=\"line\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=14891\">They called him a murderer.<\/a> They called him everything.  And yet he\u2019s still right there in these polls.  But again, I want to hearken back to F. Chuck Todd last Friday.  This was big.  This was very big.  I told you it was big then.  It hasn\u2019t gotten any mention, but don\u2019t doubt me on this.  NBC\/Wall Street Journal had a poll out that showed Obama wrapping it up in Florida, Ohio, and Virginia. It was over.  The only way that Romney had a chance in these three states was to go get Obama voters and change their minds.  The undecideds had made their minds up and had gone with Obama in these polls.  It was over. <\/p>\n<p>That poll came out on Thursday night.  I got the Wall Street Journal little news flash blurb on it.  So I expected F. Chuck Todd and the NBC boys to be literally throwing a party Friday morning.  I mean with the balloons and little hats and everything. I thought it was going to be over with.  And we played for you the sound bite.  There\u2019s F. Chuck Todd talking about how polling bothers him, that he hasn\u2019t kept up with the technology, or the technology hasn\u2019t enabled them to keep up with reality, but it was clear he didn\u2019t believe his own poll.  And he was wise not to believe his own poll.  Those states haven\u2019t been decided. We haven\u2019t even had the debates, for crying out loud.  So what we have here is the media &#8212; NBC, Wall Street Journal, polling unit &#8212; again, making news to try to shape public opinion rather than reflect it.  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=14573\">And F. Chuck finally admitted it<\/a>.  Chuck Todd actually admitted, &#8220;I\u2019m very nervous with this polling, I\u2019m very nervous.&#8221;  He did not want to hang his hat on this poll. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=14573\"><img id=\"eZObject_67019\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/FChuckToddPolls.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think it had an elevated Democrat sample. Oh yeah, in one sample, 4% independents.  No wonder the independents already made up their mind, there\u2019s only 4% of \u2019em in the sample.  There was one state &#8212; I forget which &#8212; but the Democrat percentage is way up over the 2008, or even 2010 turnout.  So there wasn\u2019t a whole lot of celebrating Friday over that poll.  Now, wouldn\u2019t you think, if these guys really believe that, if you\u2019ve got a poll out that says it\u2019s over in Florida, Ohio, and Virginia, \u2019cause if the poll\u2019s right, it is over.  If you got a poll that says that, if you believe the poll, aren\u2019t you literally orgasmic?  They weren\u2019t.  Here\u2019s Mike Flynn posting at Breitbart, the Big Government website:  CBS: Obama leads in our poll where we have a 13-percentage-point advantage for Democrats in our sample. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Anyone following the presidential campaign through the prism of media polls is doing themselves a serious disservice. Virtually every one uses a polling sample that is so heavily-skewed towards Democrats that it distorts the actual state of the campaign. Of course, that is a feature, not a bug of the polls. The polls are specifically designed to drive a narrative that Obama is surging and Romney is struggling. Increasingly, though, the polls are having to go to ridiculous efforts to support this meme.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Friday\u2019s CBS\/New York Times poll, for example, uses a Democrat plus-13 sample of registered voters, not likely voters. This is absurd.&#8221; Likely voters are the only polls that count. That\u2019s all they\u2019re gonna be taking in the week or two weeks before the election. I should say, &#8220;CBS does apply a Likely Voter screen to the head-to-head match up. The LV sample is D+6, similar to the make up of the 08 election. In that, Obama leads Romney by just 3 points, 49-46.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=37804\"><img id=\"eZObject_67020\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/000MostDangerousMan.jpg\"\/><\/a>In Rasmussen the same day, last Friday, it was Romney up three. There\u2019s a Rasmussen out today. I just saw it. I better not quote it \u2019cause I don\u2019t remember reading what it was about. But in it Romney\u2019s up by a couple points. So what is going on? What\u2019s going on here is that everybody on the Obama side knows that it\u2019s the Obama camp that\u2019s in disarray. Now, don\u2019t misunderstand me. I\u2019m not saying that that means it\u2019s over for Obama, and don\u2019t get super confident about anything.<\/p>\n<p>My point is that this is nowhere near over. We\u2019re not even to October yet; the election\u2019s in November. These people are doing everything they can to suppress your vote and dispirit you, and they\u2019re using polling data to do it. They\u2019re using stories such as the Romney camp in disarray. Our side, I think, actually contributes to this with all these questions: &#8220;Why isn\u2019t Romney up by 15? Why isn\u2019t Romney up by ten?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: A rising number of stories about the disarray the Romney campaign is in. And, in fact, if you listen to the Fox News Channel, you can hear certain conservatives say the same thing. 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