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<\/p>\nRUSH: I got this last night. Wall Street Journal, NBC poll. And it was depressing, folks. You know what it was? I don\u2019t have it right in front of me, but I remember it. In essence, it said it\u2019s over in Virginia, Florida, and Ohio for Romney. <\/p>\n
The latest NBC News\/Washington Post poll has shown that President Obama has pulled ahead in these three swing states to the point that if Romney\u2019s to have any chance whatsoever he\u2019s going to have to convince Obama voters to vote for him because the undecideds have already made up their minds. So I got that, and I sent that around to my friends. Did they react? Yeah, they did react to that. And I said, “Okay, I don\u2019t have the poll, I don\u2019t have the breakdown, the samples or any of that stuff, but I\u2019m not buying this.” This doesn\u2019t make sense with anything that\u2019s going on. Obama going up in the polls right now doesn\u2019t make sense, does it? To you? <\/p>\n
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Does Obama closing out the election right now make sense to you? Does Obama wrapping it up in Ohio, Florida, Virginia, does that make sense to you? It doesn\u2019t to me. Obama getting stronger in the polls, right now, doesn\u2019t make sense to me. Well, Rasmussen\u2019s out today. Their latest poll has Romney up three. That\u2019s exactly right. Latest Rasmussen has Romney up three. And then there\u2019s this. “According to the Real Clear Politics averages, Mitt Romney now the leads the presidential race in Virginia for the first time since the beginning of the year.” Real Clear Politics, they average every poll. That\u2019s the RCP. I happen to know that. I\u2019m a powerful, influential member of the media so I know what that means. RCP, Real Clear Politics, rolling averages. They average all the prominent polls out there, and Romney\u2019s pulled ahead in Virginia for the first time.<\/p>\n
On the same day NBC\/Wall Street Journal puts their poll out saying it\u2019s over for Romney in Virginia. The Real Clear Politics poll also shows that Obama\u2019s numbers have been sliding steadily in Florida. So what is this? Well, we know what this is. It\u2019s NBC\/Wall Street Journal using polling data to suppress our votes, to dispirit us, to depress us. So let\u2019s go to the horse\u2019s mouth on this. F. Chuck Todd of NBC News. Last night on the NBC Nightly News, that poll had come out, Brian Williams speaking with F. Chuck Todd, and Brian said, “We have new postpolitical convention polling numbers that we\u2019re debuting here on the Nightly News tonight. Shows some interesting movement in the battleground states here, Chuck. What\u2019s it show, old buddy, old pal?”<\/p>\n
TODD: Let\u2019s actually start in the state of Virginia, where Mitt Romney was today. There, in the state of Virginia, the President at 49%, a five-point lead. In Ohio, another crucial state on the road to 270 electoral votes, the President actually hits 50 percent, a seven-point lead. And then let me take you down to the state of Florida. The president has opened up a five-point lead. For the first time since we\u00c2\u2019ve been testing in these state polls, the right track is over 40 percent. As you know, that is an important number in gauging whether a president can win reelection. The fact that there is suddenly an improvement in how people feel the direction of the country is going. Some Democrats have been telling me that\u00c2\u2019s the Clinton bump, referring to Bill Clinton\u2019s speech.<\/p>\n
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Now, let\u2019s move to this morning. Stay with NBC. We\u2019ll go to the CNBC on their Squawk Box show, and guess who\u2019s back? F. Chuck Todd. F. Chuck\u2019s back, and they\u2019re having a discussion about this poll, and Joe Kernen says, “Is polling better Chuck? You remember Dukakis up 17. Gallup had Mondale up. You look at these things, and you have to wait until November 6 to get the real poll.” And he\u2019s right! These people that do polls, that\u2019s the one they care about: The one the week before the election.<\/p>\n
Because that\u2019s the one everybody remembers. <\/p>\n
These polls now are used for whatever agenda these people are on. So, anyway, Joe Kernen says to F. Chuck (paraphrased), “Chuck, what about these polls? I mean, Dukakis up 17? Mondale beating Reagan? Come on! What are we talking about here, F. Chuck?”<\/p>\n
TODD: I\u2019m gonna steal a line from Charlie Cook, uh, a political analyst, and he says, “Technology has done a lot of things; technology has not improved polling.” … Look, I am concerned about the state of polling in general.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Whoa! Whoaaa! Hold it just a second. F. Chuck just got the best news he coulda gotten. F. Chuck and the rest of the media are Democrats with bylines. They\u2019re collaborators. That\u2019s all they are. They come from the same fraternities. They go to the same schools. You know, I meant to get to that yesterday. I didn\u2019t get to it, and I\u2019m not gonna have time today, I don\u2019t think. I need to make a note. There\u2019s this great piece about how the Ivy League shapes and forms all these people in government, in media. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s fabulous. It confirms a theory of mine. Anyway, F. Chuck has just been given the best news he coulda gotten as a guy in the tank for Obama. How can you not be happy? “Virginia, it\u2019s over! Ohio, it\u2019s over! Florida, it\u2019s over! Romney has no prayer. If this poll\u2019s right, Romney\u2019s finished. It\u2019s over.” And F. Chuck is on CNBC today saying he\u2019s worried about polling. He worried about “technology.” He doesn\u2019t think that technology has improved polling. <\/p>\n
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What that means is that they don\u2019t call cell phones. They call land lines, and the only people that have land lines are the kind of people have never heard of cell phones. So you can imagine the kind of data they\u2019re getting. So F. Chuck is essentially telling us here that he doesn\u2019t trust his own poll\u2019s data. Because, my friends, I\u2019m here to tell you (and you know it as well as I know it): If Chuck Todd believed this latest poll, you couldn\u2019ta kept him in his chair today. <\/p>\n
He\u2019d-a had on the birthday hat. They\u2019d-a had a band in there and been running around. The balloons would have been blown up and they would be having a party on the CNBC set. “It\u2019s over! Our poll says so!” No way. I mean, the poll actually says that the only way Romney could win is to convince Obama voters to vote for him. The undecideds have already made up their minds. Yet F. Chuck is on CNBC quoting Charlie Cook. <\/p>\n
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<\/a>Cook says technology has not improved polling. He\u2019s concerned, Chuck Todd. In the face of his own poll, he says he\u2019s concerned. That means he doesn\u2019t believe it, folks, if I may cut to the chase. I think what we heard here is F. Chuck Todd saying he doesn\u2019t believe his own poll, and his actions indicate that because there\u2019s no celebration here. There might have been a hint of it last night with Brian Williams on the Nightly News but there wasn\u2019t any this morning on CNBC.<\/p>\n