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<\/p>\nRUSH: My question is, why is Obama still campaigning? Could somebody explain that to me. Everywhere I look, this election\u2019s over. Why, Obama has hit 50% approval in the polls now for the first time ever. The bounce out of that disaster of a convention was unprecedented, other than Dukakis who had a 17-point lead after his, and somehow he lost. Brit Hume said today on Fox, “Well, you know, you gotta keep in mind the guy leading in the polls in mid-September rarely loses.” Ever heard of Dukakis? Ever heard of Jimmy Carter? And now Public Policy Polling has a poll out saying Obama\u2019s at 50% in Ohio. They\u2019re closing the gap. They\u2019re gonna win Ohio now. Except Obama might lose New Mexico. New Mexico is still in play. They\u2019re not telling you that. But why\u2019s Obama still raising money? Why is he still campaigning, if this is over? <\/p>\n
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Folks, this is so predictable. The campaign to depress you and to dispirit you is underway, and it\u2019s at full bore. It\u2019s going 150%. These people have a disaster of a convention they\u2019re trying to turn into the greatest convention ever. Obama is pitied. I can\u2019t tell you all the theories. I\u2019ve got people depressed \u2019cause they think the new iPhone<\/a> isn\u2019t gonna have anything in it. I\u2019m surrounded by it. And I\u2019m here to tell you, it is September the 10th. There\u2019s two months to go. There\u2019s no way this is over. There is no way. <\/p>\n I\u2019ll give you another example. TheHill.com had a poll last week. I don\u2019t have it here in front of me. But it was a devastating poll to Obama. The Washington Post and ABC News poll was devastating to Obama. Just last week, on Tuesday at his convention, TheHill.com poll had 52% thinking the country\u2019s headed in the wrong direction, Obama\u2019s bad for the country. It was horrible. The polling data from last week, Tuesday of the convention, was absolutely disastrous. And now all of a sudden it\u2019s done a 180 in a week and all that last week doesn\u2019t matter, and now TheHill.com has a poll out. Guess what they say? Guess what they went out and asked people? Do you think you\u2019re not being played and set up, you know what? This election it is not about Obama. It\u2019s not a referendum on Obama. Oh, no. This is a choice between two men. Why, they went out and they polled the exact theme of Obama\u2019s speech, which was Jimmy Carter\u2019s speech of 1980, which Pat Caddell says, hey, I recognize that; I wrote it. <\/p>\n So now it\u2019s not a referendum on Obama. It\u2019s a choice between two guys, which means, of course, whatever Romney says matters. I\u2019m here to tell you, folks, you have got to stay bucked up. The effort to depress you and keep you home, I\u2019ve never seen it like this before in my life. I have never seen this intense an effort by the Democrat machine, including the pollsters, and it\u2019s sucking in a lot of our media. A lot of conservative media\u2019s getting sucked in by this. They\u2019re buying it \u2019cause they get caught up in the bubble that is the world as created and defined every day by the mainstream media. Their lives hinge on polling. And of course the polling, if you look carefully, you can find flaws. <\/p>\n The polls are just being used as another tool of voter suppression. The polls are an attempt to not reflect public opinion, but to shape it. Yours. They want to depress the heck out of you, and they want to suppress your vote. The polls are of adults, registered voters. Let me tell you the polls that count, and those are the polls a couple of weeks before the election. That\u2019s when the pollsters worry about holding onto their credibility. Those are the polls that everybody remembers. Nobody\u2019s gonna talk about what Public Policy Polling said in a poll in Ohio on September 10th. They\u2019re gonna worry about what Public Policy Polling said a week before the election, and that\u2019s when Public Policy Polling, a liberal group out of North Carolina, is gonna tell you what\u2019s really going on. <\/p>\n So if you like polls, forget about \u2019em until two weeks before the election, because these now are being used specifically to depress you, to hang you up, to get you not voting, to get you mad at Romney. They want you to think Romney\u2019s horrible; Romney\u2019s worthless; Romney\u2019s not conservative; Romney\u2019s selling you out; Romney\u2019s this or that; the election\u2019s not about Obama at all. <\/p>\n Let me ask you a question. Can I get some common sense thrown in here? What happened in 2010? It was a landslide defeat for Barack Obama and the Democrats. 2010 was what? It was a referendum on what had happened those two years. The Republicans hadn\u2019t done diddly-squat because those two years the Republicans did not have enough votes anywhere to stop Obama anywhere, anytime. They were mere spectators. The House didn\u2019t have the votes to stop Obama. The Senate didn\u2019t have the votes to stop Obama. The first two years. The 2010 midterms were a shellacking, a landslide defeat, and not just for national Democrats, but all the way down the ballot to dogcatcher in Oshkosh. Nothing against Oshkosh. It\u2019s just the first town that comes to my mind when I get on these riffs. <\/p>\n Now, what\u2019s changed, folks? It\u2019s gotten worse! The economy has gotten worse. The job situation has gotten worse. The entitlement situation has gotten worse. The debt situation has gotten worse. What has happened in the last two years to erase what happened in 2010? My point is: Not a thing. What else is noteworthy about 2010? There was no Republican candidate on a ballot, nationally, that was leading anything.<\/p>\n The Tea Party was what was making things happen on the Republican side (and, I should better say, “the conservative side”). But it was a referendum on Obama, and so is this gonna be — and every one of these polling groups, and every one of these Democrat groups, know it. And they\u2019re doing everything they can to get you to forget everything you know. They\u2019re doing everything they can to get you to deny what you know is common sense.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: I\u2019m telling you, nothing has changed from 2010. None of this makes any sense, folks. You\u2019re telling me Obama\u2019s much more popular today than he was two years ago? You think Obama\u2019s policies are much more popular today than they were two years ago? You think the people that showed up and voted in 2010 to stop Obama have decided, “Ah, to hell with it. I like him”? Try this theory.<\/p>\n The people on welfare, the people on Social Security disability — people still on unemployment — are afraid to do without Obama. The fact that he\u2019s destroyed the economy will actually benefit him. Yes, that\u2019s what we\u2019re to believe. The fact that he\u2019s destroyed the economy is gonna benefit Obama because all those people who are now on some sort of welfare-like assistance are gonna be scared to death to get rid of Obama because then what will become of their meager existence?<\/p>\n Let me check something real quick. (muttering) It\u2019s a Hill poll. I don\u2019t know which Hill poll this is, \u2019cause I talked about two: One last week, and there\u2019s one out today. “Oh, no! This is not a referendum on Obama. No, no, this is a choice election.” And, by the way, it\u2019s like 36% believe it\u2019s a referendum on Obama and 52% think it\u2019s “a choice between two futures.” (Why does that sound familiar?) Here\u2019s more from the Hill poll today: “The survey also includes some sobering findings for the” regime.<\/p>\n Again, TheHill.com poll today “includes some sobering findings for the [regime]. A majority of voters say their opinion of Obama has gotten worse since he took office, the poll found. Forty-one percent said they have a ‘much worse\u2019 view of Obama now than in 2008; 11 percent said their opinion is ‘slightly worse\u2019 …” Well, let\u2019s see: 41% plus 11%, that\u2019s 52% think it\u2019s worse. Plus, “while 38% overall said their view of him had improved. By contrast, a near-majority of — 47% — say their view of Romney has improved as they have learned more about him…”<\/p>\n Well, that\u2019s exact opposite of what every poll has been telling you all weekend. Hmm! “Thirty-nine percent say that their opinion of Romney has become worse.” The Hill buried that in their poll. Look, I know that Romney\u2019s not ideal, and I know that Romney ticks you off, and I know that Romney on Meet the Press said, “Ah, there\u2019s parts of Obamacare…” Ann Romney went out there, and do you know what she said? God bless Ann Romney. She went out there and she said, “Our convention was meant to prove we\u2019re not heartless.”<\/p>\n Well, let me tell you something. You see that and you ball up your fists and say, “What are they talking about!” It\u2019s not about them. I hate to tell you this. I mentioned this on the air some time ago. Romney, the best thing he can do is remember this election isn\u2019t about him. He may as well be Elmer Fudd as far as we\u2019re concerned. We\u2019re voting against Obama. I don\u2019t care who they put on the ticket, we\u2019re voting against Obama. That has not changed, and there are more people now than in 2010 who are gonna vote against Obama.<\/p>\n It\u2019s right here in the Stack of Stuff: $49,000 lost on every Chevy Volt made.<\/p>\n And Obama\u2019s out talking about the auto industry being revived and rescued?<\/p>\n It\u2019s a lie!<\/p>\n It\u2019s an absolute crock!<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: You know, when it comes to the Gallup poll, I think you\u2019ve heard (you\u2019ve probably just forgotten), Axelrod has not been threatening them, but he blasted \u2019em for their spread, for using the same voter turnout in 2010 to poll the electorate this time around. He blasted \u2019em. And shortly after he blasts Gallup, guess what changes? Gallup\u2019s numbers. Now, Axelrod is “the government.” He\u2019s not just part of a campaign; he\u2019s part of the regime.<\/p>\n When somebody in the government comes along and starts…? Plus Gallup\u2019s sympathetic to Obama anyway, so it didn\u2019t take much.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Here\u2019s more information on Gallup, by the way. The Department of Justice, Eric Holder, has joined in a lawsuit against Gallup brought by a former Gallup employee as a top Obama organizer. So the DOJ, the regime, suing Gallup, and shortly thereafter Gallup\u2019s numbers on Obama change. Here\u2019s more from TheHill.com poll today. “Among women, 39 percent said they were more likely to vote for Obama because of the conventions while 35 percent said they were more likely to vote for Romney.” That 39 has gotta be 50 for it to matter. After four days of the War on Women, after four days of the uterus and the vagina being a focal point of the convention, 39% say they were more likely to vote for Obama. They\u2019re gonna need more than that to overcome Romney\u2019s advantage in men. And who the heck knows what TheHill.com was asking about this being a choice election versus a referendum election. <\/p>\n I\u2019m amazed. Here you have a poll that actually uses as a question an assertion from Obama\u2019s acceptance speech. This is going to be a referendum Obama? That\u2019s why we\u2019re so worried, folks. Nothing\u2019s changed from 2010. Did Chick-fil-A not happen? Did those nationwide protests of Chick-fil-A not happen? Everybody that was involved, you talk about a grassroots, spontaneous effort. All over this country, everywhere there were Chick-fil-A restaurants<\/a>, you know what happened in response to the assault on Chick-fil-A. Those people are gonna vote. Have they decided after the convention to say, “You know what? Maybe Obama\u2019s not so bad.” <\/p>\n All of this is based on a supposedly mythical bounce that Obama\u2019s got from his convention. You know, my memory is that all these Drive-By Media people were crushed after Obama\u2019s speech on Thursday night. My memory is they thought it was horrible. My memory is they thought it was empty. My memory is that they thought it was vapid and there was nothing to it. Now all of a sudden it\u2019s the greatest damn speech ever given. I know it\u2019s tough to hold on, folks, I know it\u2019s tough to stay for some people.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Now, there\u2019s a piece, PJMedia.com, PajamasMedia.com. It\u2019s posted yesterday by Sarah Hoyt. Until yesterday I didn\u2019t know who Sarah Hoyt was. I still don\u2019t know who she is, but this is an excellent, excellent piece. I can\u2019t read the whole thing because it\u2019s too long. “Spreading Fear And Despondency.” It sounds like she feels as exasperated as I do at the people who have gotten so depressed on our side that they\u2019re just about ready to throw in the towel. She starts her post this way. <\/p>\n “Recently I\u00c2\u2019ve been reading the anti-Obama blogosphere, and yesterday it finally got to me. I have only one question to ask — are you insane? No, let me add a few other questions: Have you gone completely out of your minds? Do you want to lose? And do you understand fully what a loss would mean? I hate to say it but I think the answers are yes, yes, yes and no. I don\u00c2\u2019t like yelling at people on the right. Like Reagan, I hold on to the idea that there are no enemies on the right. I prefer to make my points in nicer ways. However, there comes a time any good housewife reaches for the broom. It is now time for the broom.<\/p>\n So she\u2019s upset here at all the poll watchers on our side who fall for it and buy into it. ” “Really? The polls were correct before? When? The very last polls before the elections…” By the way, this is exactly right. The very last polls before the election, when pollsters try to salvage their reputation, that\u2019s when you pay attention to the polls. It\u2019s just like I said, the Public Policy Polling poll out of Ohio today that shows Obama at 50% doesn\u2019t mean anything. Nobody\u2019s gonna go back and cite this poll as to whether or not PPP had any idea what they were doing or any credibility. The same with Rasmussen, the same with Gallup, Reuters, you name it. They\u2019re gonna look at the polls in the last week to two before the election. And that\u2019s when you get accurate ones. That\u2019s when we\u2019ll know. Up until then, we know these polls are all conducted by people who want Obama reelected, who want the Obama agenda. They don\u2019t even know what it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" RUSH: My question is, why is Obama still campaigning? Could somebody explain that to me. Everywhere I look, this election\u2019s over. 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<\/a>Hmm! You aren\u2019t hearing about this except from me. “A majority of voters say their opinion of Obama has gotten worse since he took office, the poll found.” Wait a minute! This is the same poll that the media today is highlighting to say, “It\u2019s not a referendum on Obama; it\u2019s a choice between two gentlemen, two futures.” Well, this Hill poll is as devastating this week as it was last week for Obama, and so is people\u2019s perception of his job performance.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/ObamaGMPuma.jpg\"\/)
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<\/a>This is a referendum on Obama, and it\u2019s what\u2019s got us all scared to death. Because if the referendum on Obama is that this is the kind of country people want, that\u2019s what\u2019s got us worried. But it hasn\u2019t changed. It\u2019s a referendum on Obama. But they\u2019re doing everything they can. I still predict — don\u2019t forget, it was just last week, New York Times and a couple of other prominent lib places started writing stories blaming Obama — got the Woodward book<\/a> coming out blaming Obama for being horrible decision-maker, not even showing up. It\u2019s just last week. And all of a sudden the weekend comes, the Sunday shows, some new polls, and the reality of just five days ago is forgotten. It\u2019s not how things work. It was just last week the media was preparing to throw Obama overboard in order to save liberalism because it looked like he was gonna lose. <\/p>\n