{"id":15892,"date":"2012-04-24T16:46:33","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T16:46:33","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-24T16:46:33","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T16:46:33","slug":"cnn_obama_crowd_half_the_size_of_08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/04\/24\/cnn_obama_crowd_half_the_size_of_08\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN: Obama Crowd Half the Size of \u201908"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Jessica Yellin of CNN is following Obama. Obama\u2019s in North Carolina. By the way, there\u2019s a sex scandal in North Carolina. It started out to be some very small, inconsequential thing. It\u2019s ballooning now. Details are coming up.<\/a> Jessica Yellin is tweeting that Obama\u2019s crowd today is 50% the size it was when he went to the same place in 2008. Where is he? Chapel Hill. Yeah, he\u2019s at the Dean Smith Center with 9,000 people.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Jessica Yellin of CNN is traveling with Obama. He\u2019s in North Carolina. That\u2019s a big problem state for Obama. Everybody\u2019s talking about Ohio. The Republicans need Ohio or Florida. That may be, but Obama needs North Carolina. If he loses North Carolina, there is trouble all the way down the Electoral College that they don\u2019t want to mess with. So they have their convention there, a number of trips that have been slated. We did that story about the 45,000 professionals that work in the uber-triangle, whatever it is (Raleigh, Durham and that area).<\/p>\n

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How they vote depends on the way North Carolina votes when coupled with certain voters from the Charlotte area. Research Triangle. So Jessica Yellin has tweeted: “In 2008, candidate Barack Obama spoke at University of North Carolina\u2019s Dean Smith Center, capacity 22,000. Today he\u2019s a Carmichael Arena, seats 9,000. Where\u2019s the love?” Jessica Yellin at CNN is pointing out that Obama is drawing less than half the crowd today that he drew four years ago. I mention this. This is not insignificant, folks. This campaign is in trouble. Obama is not popular, and there are (when I get to them) stories in the stacks about Obama not doing well with women, Obama not doing well with young people. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s a lot of mythology out there still today about Obama and his strengths and how there hasn\u2019t been any fallout from the dismal record that he has amassed. None of this is true. They\u2019re in trouble. They\u2019re in deep trouble. You basically have David Plouffe, who\u2019s the president, you got Axelrod who\u2019s the chief of staff and Obama\u2019s out playing golf. Obama… Not quite. Obama\u2019s out doing the fundraising, but David Plouffe is the acting president, Axelrod\u2019s chief adviser, and Obama\u2019s out playing golf. Obama basically has a nine a.m. to four p.m. day. It\u2019s these other guys that are formulating policy, doing all this other stuff. He knows what\u2019s going on, don\u2019t misunderstand, and he\u2019s guiding and influencing it. <\/line><\/p>\n

I\u2019m not saying Obama\u2019s disengaged, doesn\u2019t know what\u2019s going on and he\u2019s a puppet. Don\u2019t misunderstand. Not saying that at all. But he\u2019s not known as a hard worker. He\u2019s not known as somebody who gets in there early and stays late. The only time he stays late and when he\u2019s got Netanyahu over there in another room waiting for him to finish dinner with his family. Then he\u2019ll come back and stay late. Well, he did that. So the crowds aren\u2019t what they are. The fundraising isn\u2019t what it is. Romney is showing the ability to sneak up on people in a way.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: While David Plouffe is the president, Axelrod\u2019s the chief of staff, Obama\u2019s out raising money. After his campaign stop in North Carolina today, he\u2019s going on his comedy tour. He\u2019ll be appearing on the Jimmy Fallon show and then with Jimmy Kimmel before being roasted at the White House Correspondents Dinner this weekend. Snerdley, were you invited? (interruption) You weren\u2019t? I thought you got invited every year to the White House Correspondents Dinner. I used to. I used to be invited, until it became widely known I would never go. I would never accept. Now the invitations don\u2019t come in. It\u2019s like last week Snerdley was all upset… Was it you or was it…? (interruption)<\/line><\/p>\n

Oh, you know, my guest at the spring fling were all worked up. Apparently Vanity Fair had a hundred most powerful, influential, and one of my guests said, “How can somebody with an audience of one million people be on cable,” talking about Colbert, “be on the list and how can you not be? And TIME Magazine\u2019s hundred more powerful people, how can you not be on it?” I said, “‘Cause I don\u2019t go to the party.” I\u2019ve been on that list twice, and I\u2019ve never gone. They\u2019re not gonna invite people that aren\u2019t gonna show up. It\u2019s a party invitation. It\u2019s a party list, and I don\u2019t go. I\u2019m through being circus act. <\/p>\n

You know, I got the T-shirt. (interruption) No, I would be the circus act if I went. I would be one of maybe two or three conservatives and the rest, the libs, would be sitting around pointing like I\u2019m a baby polar bear in the zoo. That\u2019s what I mean by circus act. (interruption) Doesn\u2019t matter. They\u2019d still be yukking up. Anyway, I just decided not to go. So, anyway, Obama is out doing what he\u2019s doing, which isn\u2019t working. He\u2019s fundraising and going on comedy tours. He\u2019s in North Carolina today drawing half the crowd that he drew four years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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