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<\/p>\nRUSH: So the Gallup poll is out, the Daily Approval Tracking Poll, and Obama is at 43% approve and 51% disapprove. Now, I don\u2019t have the Fox News poll in front of me, but Obama\u2019s way up. What is Obama up in that Fox poll? Did you see it, Snerdley? I think the Democrat sample was plus-nine in the Fox poll. Obama is up five points in the Fox poll and a number of other polls that came out this week. <\/p>\n
Obama is up five, up seven and of course the Democrat sample is nine percentage points or eight percentage points higher than the Republican sample. And people are getting depressed over these polls. They can\u2019t figure it out. The Fox News poll came out. “What is this? How can this possibly be?” Even in the Fox poll, Obama\u2019s up 49-40. Nine points! In none of these polls does Obama get over 50. I think it\u2019s interesting. Maybe in one outlier poll he does. But it\u2019s a Fox poll of “registered voters.” <\/p>\n
When will the polls start moving to “likely voters”?<\/p>\n
Isn\u2019t it about time for that? <\/p>\n
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There\u2019s a CNN poll that came out yesterday of “adults.”<\/p>\n
That\u2019s not even registered voters! <\/p>\n
In the CNN poll yesterday, Thursday, Obama was way up, sky high. It\u2019s so ridiculous that people are laughing at it. In the Fox poll, Obama\u2019s up 49 to 40 among registered voters if the election were held today. In last month\u2019s Fox poll they had Obama with a four-point edge. But last month, Fox only oversampled the Democrats by four points. This time, they oversampled by eight or nine. It\u2019s interesting. Whatever the oversample is seems to be Obama\u2019s lead. Like I think they oversampled Obama by nine points.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s got a nine-point lead. <\/p>\n
A month later they oversampled Democrats four points, and Obama has a four-point lead. The Fox poll also says that Obama\u2019s negative campaign has worked. They say, “Obama\u2019s advantage comes largely from increased support among independents who now pick him over Romney by 11.” Does anybody believe this? Well, I know inside The Beltway they do. So apparently what the Fox poll and its analysis is telling us, is that calling Romney a tax cheat, calling him a felon, a poisoner of children, and a murderer, has not turned off these precious independents. <\/p>\n
In fact, doing all that has caused the independents to flock back to the Obama campaign.<\/p>\n
Really? <\/p>\n
I thought our own consultants tell us that we can\u2019t criticize Obama because the independents don\u2019t like that. “You start getting into this politics of personal destruction stuff, and the independents don\u2019t like it. The independents run right back to Democrats!” I\u2019ve never understood that, because the Democrats are the architects of this politics personal destruction stuff. Maybe the independents don\u2019t know that. Maybe the independents are just plain stupid.<\/p>\n
Because now the independents are flocking back to Obama as he accuses Romney of murder, as he accuses Romney of being a tax cheat. As he accuses Romney of being a felon. As they accuse Romney of poisoning the water and poisoning the air. The Fox poll says Obama\u2019s negative campaign has worked. Well then why don\u2019t Republican negative campaigns work? Who slipped this fix in? Who saw to it that the Republicans don\u2019t go negative? Who saw to it that Republicans don\u2019t run critical ads? <\/p>\n
“Well, we can\u2019t, Mr. Limbaugh. The independents, they just run right back to Democrats. You can\u2019t criticize the first black president! You can\u2019t criticize President Clinton. People like President Clinton. You can\u2019t get anywhere by criticizing.” Oh, but since they\u2019ve made everybody hate Romney, it\u2019s okay? They can then criticize Romney and the independents go, “Yeah, yeah! Give us more”? Something here, folks, is really way out of whack because the Gallup poll has Obama\u2019s approval number at 43%. <\/p>\n
I want to know how approval 43, disapproval 51, translates into a nine-point Obama lead in the Fox poll or in any other poll. What are we supposed to believe here? Now, the Fox poll does say that among voters who are “extremely interested in the race,” the candidates are tied at 48. Which means Obama is only pulling ahead if he is among low-information voters, ie, The Stupids. But they count. However, this is a poll of registered voters, not likely voters. <\/p>\n
This actually kind of ticks me off, because these people use these polls to make news not to reflect public opinion. They\u2019re trying to shape public opinion with this garbage. So buried in the Fox poll is this news that among voters who are “extremely interested,” it\u2019s a tight race. Well, would that maybe mean likely voters? Would “extremely interested” equal likely voters? It\u2019s tied 48-48. That would change the perception of this thing profoundly, because if it\u2019s 48-48 among likely voters, and 48-48 among those really extremely interested, then what it would say is that all of this junk Obama has thrown at Romney has not worked. <\/p>\n
But in a poll of registered voters it has worked. <\/p>\n