{"id":16913,"date":"2012-01-09T18:49:30","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T18:49:30","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-01-09T18:49:30","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T18:49:30","slug":"dan_rather_as_of_today_obama_would_lose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/01\/09\/dan_rather_as_of_today_obama_would_lose\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Rather: As of Today, Obama Would Lose"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Here\u2019s Dan Rather. This is CNN\u2019s Newsroom last night. Dan Rather, by the way, in case you don\u2019t know works at HDNet, has a show called Dan Rather Reports. He runs around and he does stories on how wood shavings imperil union workers at timber factories in Oshkosh, such stuff. They asked him about the presidential race, and along the lines — you know, Donna Brazile<\/a> said — in fact, grab that again, grab number seven again. If you\u2019re just joining us, this is Saturday night after the ABC debate, Democrat strategerist Donna Brazile is on with Stephanopoulos and their senior political correspondent Jon Karl, and they have this exchange about who won the Republican debate and why. <\/p>\n

BRAZILE: Mitt Romney won tonight because no one touched him — and for Democrats, you know what? It was good news for us.<\/line>KARL: Why is that?<\/line><\/p>\n

BRAZILE: Because we believe that the weakest candidate is the candidate that the Republicans are not attackin\u2019, and that\u2019s Mitt Romney.<\/p>\n

KARL: Oh, come on.<\/p>\n

STEPHANOPOULOS: No, you don\u2019t believe that, Donna.<\/p>\n

RUSH: “No, you don\u2019t believe that,” that\u2019s Stephanopoulos. Donna, shut up! You don\u2019t believe that, Donna! Donna, don\u2019t let the cat out of the bag like that. I\u2019ll tell you something else. Bain Capital is going to be become the new Halliburton if Romney gets the nomination. Newt\u2019s already trying to turn it into that, which I think is a mistake, but that\u2019s for another time. Bain Capital will become the new Halliburton. It\u2019s so predictable. This is all in the cards. <\/p>\n

So here\u2019s Rather, and this is another thing: It makes news when Rather says it. Of course, I have been saying it for a year.<\/p>\n

RATHER: I think he\u2019s the underdog. Uhh, not the underdog by much. If the election were held today — uh, depending on who the Republicans nominate, of course — uh, I think he might very well lose in a close election. His chances, buoyed just in the last few days. The unemployment figures are still terrible but at least they are now headed down.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There\u2019s Dan Blather saying that Obama would lose if the election were today, and as you people well know: I have been saying this for a year. Gallup has information about Obama\u2019s standing in addition to this poll that 40% of American voters are now independents. Obama approval\/disapproval in Gallup: 42% approve, 49 disapprove. Among white people, Obama is down to 35% approval. In 2008 he had 43% of the white vote. Among Hispanic people, Obama\u2019s at 46%, down from 67%. By age-group, Obama is at 47% approval among voters under 30. In 2008 he got 66% of their vote, but now he\u2019s at 47. He\u2019s plummeting, folks. He has been in a downward spiral for two years, and it continues — and he would lose not in a close election, but in a landslide in the election were today. Make no mistake about it.<\/p>\n

Of this I am as confidant as anything. I know it\u2019s not reflected anywhere else in the media and it\u2019s not reflected too many other places in conservative media, but I\u2019m telling you he\u2019s toast. Just as Jimmy Carter was toast, and nobody knew it until election night. Among voters 65 and older: Obama at 41%. He won 47% of their vote in 2008. In the East, Obama\u2019s approval at 52%. But in the South, the West, and the Midwest he\u2019s at 40%. Now, the Republican elite happens to be in the East, so they see the 52%. They live among the 52%. The Republican elite live among people who love Obama: the media and Democrats. They have an entirely distorted view of life outside the Eastern Seaboard. They do. It\u2019s no more complicated than that in terms of explaining this, and, not only do they have a distorted view of life outside the Eastern Seaboard, they also have (like a lot of Democrat elites) some resentment for people who live outside the Eastern Seaboard. “They\u2019re not as cultured.” There are still, for example, Republican women who will not marry men west of the Hudson River.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I am, I\u2019m a voice in the wilderness here on this whole “Obama is landslidable” business. I was a voice in the wilderness among Steelers fans on Sunday versus the Tebows<\/a>. I was right about that — and if the election were today, it would be a landslide loss. Well, let me define “landslide.” Five or seven points. It would be big. It would be huge. These people who are doing the polling have no idea of the voter enthusiasm in the anti-Obama ranks out there, no idea whatsoever. On the contrary, they think that you are getting dispirited. They think that the Republican primary fight is boring you and depressing you, and they think a lot of you can be inspired to sit home and not vote because you don\u2019t have a prayer. They think they can create that mind-set in you. That\u2019s what they\u2019re banking on. I happen to know that that isn\u2019t gonna work. There are way too many people who love this country way too much. That isn\u2019t going to happen. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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