Schoen wrote the piece himself<\/a>. The Politico story first. “Pollster Douglas Schoen is out with a warning for President Barack Obama: Supporting Occupy Wall Street could cost you a second-term.” Doug Schoen, Democrat Pollster. He was a big Clinton pollster back in the nineties. He doesn\u2019t enjoy the position in the party that he once had. I don\u2019t know what happened. It\u2019s more than the fact that he just shows up on Fox all the time now, but he\u2019s clearly, in the last two years, been producing polling data that is not favorable and is a very much a warning to Obama and the Democrats. <\/line><\/p>\nHe predicted the 2010 disaster in the midterm congressional elections. That\u2019s why we listened to him. He gets together now and then with Pat Caddell, and he said, “‘President Obama and the Democratic leadership are making a critical error in embracing the Occupy Wall Street movement — and it may cost them the 2012 election,\u2019 Schoen said in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. The movement, which has spread beyond New York City over the last month, ‘reflects values that are dangerously out of touch with the broad mass of the American people — and particularly with swing voters who are largely independent and have been trending away from the president since the debate over health-care reform,\u2019 he wrote. <\/line>“In the op-ed, Schoen presents ‘findings\u2019 collected by his polling firm — what he touts is probably ‘the first systematic random sample of Occupy Wall Street opinion.\u2019 The numbers show that 52 percent of the Occupy protesters have ‘participated in a political movement before,\u2019 98 percent said they would ‘support civil disobedience to achieve their goals,\u2019 while 31 percent said they would even ‘support violence to advance their agenda.\u2019 <\/line>In addition, Schoen said ‘an overwhelming majority\u2019 of the protesters supported the president in 2008, but that now, only 44 percent of them approve of Obama and only 48 percent of them will vote for him again in 2012.”<\/line><\/p>\n
And you want to hear something else? Most of them are employed. “Our research shows clearly that the movement doesn\u00c2\u2019t represent unemployed America and is not ideologically diverse. Rather, it comprises an unrepresentative segment of the electorate that believes in radical redistribution of wealth, civil disobedience and, in some instances, violence. Half (52%) have participated in a political movement before, virtually all (98%) say they would support civil disobedience to achieve their goals, and nearly one-third (31%) would support violence to advance their agenda. The vast majority of demonstrators are actually employed, and the proportion of protesters unemployed (15%) is within single digits of the national unemployment rate (9.1%).”<\/line>![](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/schoen_large.jpg\"\/)
So only 15% of these people are unemployed. They\u2019re not marching for jobs. They\u2019re protesting because they have to work. They\u2019re protesting \u2019cause they don\u2019t want to work. And you want to hear something hilarious? Thieves have now set upon these people. Thieves are stealing their cell phones and other electronic gadgets. And they\u2019re ticked off about it. They can\u2019t believe people would focus on them and steal their stuff. They don\u2019t see that that\u2019s exactly what they are all about. They want to steal everybody else\u2019s stuff for them in the name of equality, and here come a bunch of thieves showing up, stealing their iPhones and stuff, and they\u2019re ticked off. <\/line><\/p>\n
Folks, this is why you need to pay attention to me talking about this because there\u2019s so much BS out there about this group. I mean I have seen things that, “Gotta take \u2019em seriously. These are smart, these are articulate people, and they represent far more Americans than you would ever know.” Then you got Schoen with a completely opposite take on who they are and all these people reporting on who this group is, claim to be going down talking to them, some of them taking videos, with four or five people, and then making a judgment that these four or five are representative of the whole group. They\u2019re idiots. I\u2019ve watched some of the stuff. They\u2019re idiots. You talk to \u2019em, this notion that they\u2019re articulate and smart, give me a break. My dogs make more sense than these people do.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s clear that what you have here is your average minority malcontent bunch of spoiled brats who don\u2019t want to work. They resent that they have to work. And when they get a little dose of their own medicine like their precious gadgets being stolen, they don\u2019t know what to do about it. But they are employed, they\u2019re genuinely unhappy, their lives are meaningless, they want to matter. I mean I know the profile. And so they join this group, and they try to get attention. One thing that continues to be reported but doesn\u2019t seem to take hold is how small this whole thing is, is how small these individual groups of people are. Of course, the regime and the media have a vested interest in this group, making it look big and spontaneous, but it isn\u2019t. <\/p>\n
Here\u2019s more from Doug Schoen. “An overwhelming majority of demonstrators supported Barack Obama in 2008. Now 51% disapprove,” which makes sense. If you listen to these people and you hear what they seriously claim to be upset about, why would they be supporting Obama? Now, they claim to be upset at the banks, but that\u2019s not what they\u2019re saying. The majority of them are upset at Obama, and they\u2019re not gonna vote for him again, but the media and Obama are trying to tell us that these people don\u2019t like the banks. Now, they\u2019ve got no love for the banks, but they\u2019re not singularly focused against the banks. Only 48% say they will vote to reelect Obama in 2012. Twenty-five percent will not. Fewer than one in three — this is 32% — call themselves Democrats, roughly the same proportion, 33%, say that they aren\u2019t represented by any political party. <\/p>\n
This is Doug Schoen writing in the Wall Street Journal, “Thus Occupy Wall Street is a group of engaged progressives who are disillusioned with the capitalist system and have a distinct activist orientation. Among the general public, by contrast, 41% of Americans self-identify as conservative, 36% as moderate, and only 21% as liberal. That\u2019s why the Obama-Pelosi embrace of the movement could prove catastrophic for their party.”<\/line>Because they\u2019re a minority. And I keep trying to drum this into people\u2019s heads as a means of keeping everybody psychologically up. We are not the minority in either numbers or thinking in this country. The left is. But the assault on us and what we believe and what we think is everywhere, and the amount of negativity that is out there, if you don\u2019t know how to avoid it, it can really affect you, \u2019cause it\u2019s everywhere, including on our side. Defeatism, agony, despair. It\u2019s all over the place. You have to know how to rise above it or have boundaries so all that bounces off you and that\u2019s what I do. <\/line><\/p>\n
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“Rather than embracing huge new spending programs and tax increases, plus increasingly radical and potentially violent activists, the Democrats should instead build a bridge to the much more numerous independents and moderates in the center by opposing bailouts and broad-based tax increases.” And instead the Democrats are throwing in with this bunch, which is perfect for us. They\u2019re throwing in with this bunch of Looney Tunes. They\u2019re adopting \u2019em. “Put simply, Democrats need to say they are with voters in the middle who want cooperation, conciliation and lower taxes. And they should work particularly hard to contrast their rhetoric with the extremes advocated by the Occupy Wall Street crowd.” Schoen served as a pollster for President Bill Clinton, is author of “Hopelessly Divided: The New Crisis in American Politics and What It Means for 2012 and Beyond.” That\u2019s the title of the book. They needed two covers in order to put the title on it. I\u2019ve never seen a longer title for a book. <\/line><\/p>\n
USA Today: “Washington to Blame More Than Wall Street for Economy.” This is a poll of most Americans, not just of the Wall Street crowd. Basically it is this: USA Today\/Gallup poll went out and they talked to regular people, and the American people blame Washington more than Wall Street 64-30%. That\u2019s what it is. And the narrative offered by Obama on who\u2019s responsible for a message coming up short, Obama is not persuading people, and the Occupy Wall Street crowd not persuading people that Wall Street\u2019s the problem. Sixty-four to 30%, USA Today\/Gallup. Somebody\u2019s gonna get canned for even conducting this poll. Then somebody\u2019s gonna get canned for reporting the poll. Then somebody\u2019s gonna get canned for publishing the poll. Sixty-four to 30% of the American people blame Washington more than Wall Street for our economic problems and malaise. <\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: You know, I\u2019d say to Doug Schoen, “Doug, nice try. It\u2019s a little late to tell Obama not to embrace the protesters. He organized and hired \u2019em.” And the protesters think he\u2019s gonna come down and say hi to \u2019em. I mean he\u2019s left the door open to going down there and encouraging them. Clearly this is an Astroturf job run by the Astroturf creator and inventor David Axelrod, and it can only work with cooperation from the State-Controlled Media, because on the ground, the reality in Virginia, AP, State-Controlled AP: “Don\u2019t look for Democrats in fiercely contested legislative elections to join President Barack Obama as he brings his American Jobs Act bus tour to three Virginia cities. For that matter, don\u2019t expect to see Tim Kaine, the former Democratic National Committee chairman and past Virginia governor, joining his old ally either.<\/p>\n
“But one statewide elected official will join Obama — Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell, a GOP vice presidential prospect and a sharp, frequent critic of the Obama White House.<\/line>McDonnell announced he would appear with the president at a Wednesday stop in Hampton at a military base for an event advocating expanded employment opportunities for veterans. Republicans say Democrats were so afraid to embrace the unpopular president that Obama changed his Virginia itinerary to avoid stops near targeted Democrats.” Obama is staying away from Democrats running for reelection in Virginia who are in toss-ups because he\u2019s a drag. He\u2019s an obstacle. <\/line><\/p>\n
Wolf Blitzer, CNN: “There are some numbers in our new CNN-ORC International poll that should seriously worry President Obama and the Democrats. Republicans are right now a lot more enthusiastic about voting in the next election than Democrats. Some 64% of Republicans say they are extremely or very enthusiastic compared to only 43% of Democrats. … But for the president, there may be an even more alarming number. Among all voters, 59% think that President Obama\u00c2\u2019s policies will fail compared to only 36% who say they will succeed.”<\/p>\n
And Wolf Blitzer writing at CNN.com says, “There is still plenty of time for the president and the Democrats to turn this around.” Now, I\u2019m told that we should not pay much attention to this, though, folks, this voter enthusiasm business, that the harbinger for all of this is the school board elections in Wake County, North Carolina, where the Democrats shellacked the Republicans. The Democrats had three times the margin of victory in early voting. The Democrats got people out like crazy. The Republicans sat home. This is the Wake County school board elections, and I\u2019m told that\u2019s more indicative of the coming election in 2012 than what CNN\u2019s poll indicates. So voter enthusiasm in a poll, yeah, but in the Wake County, North Carolina, school board race, the Democrats took it all. It may be over, folks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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