{"id":214763,"date":"2016-10-26T16:31:55","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T20:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/10\/26\/polls_tighten_as_election_day_nears\/"},"modified":"2017-01-06T13:35:24","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T18:35:24","slug":"polls_tighten_as_election_day_nears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/10\/26\/polls_tighten_as_election_day_nears\/","title":{"rendered":"Polls Tighten As Election Day Nears"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH:  I\u2019m looking here at the latest snapshot at Real Clear Politics. All the different polls that they publish, their Real Clear Politics poll average overall, the four-way RCP average with four candidates, favorability ratings, live betting odds, the Electoral College, Real Clear Politics electoral map, battleground states. <\/p>\n

Folks, I\u2019m just telling you, every down arrow here is next to Hillary Clinton\u2019s name.  The blue arrows, if you go to the Real Clear Politics page, they update every day or every time a new poll updates, they add that to their averages, their rolling, tracking, whatever, and then they change the direction if it\u2019s up or down, and Hillary is down everywhere but in Ohio, but yet Trump is still plus 1.1 in Ohio, yet Hillary is showing upward movement there. <\/p>\n

Remember, now, it\u2019s an average of all the polls, and if you want to see each individual poll, you can do that, too.  But this is the average that I\u2019m talking about.  So what\u2019s going on here?  Is it as I predicted, that as we near the election, the polls will tighten to more accurately reflect reality, because up \u2019til now, the polls are simply a tool, a weapon to shape public opinion.  <\/p>\n

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RUSH: State of Florida. Bloomberg has Trump up two points here in Florida. <\/p>\n

Now, you might say, “Well, so what?”  Well, Obama won Florida in 2012 by one point.  You know that?  I think.  I might have to be double-checked on this.  But I know that Trump is up by two, and Rubio is up by 10.  Marco Rubio\u2019s running against somebody named Patrick Murphy, and he\u2019s up by 10 points against somebody named Patrick Murphy.  This wasn\u2019t supposed to happen.  Remember?  Trump was gonna destroy every Republican down the ballot.  Trump is so bad, Trump is so destructive, Trump is so damaging that the entire Republican Party might not even exist after Trump gets blown out. <\/p>\n

In fact, the Washington Post had a story yesterday, and all of the Never Trumpers out there just glommed onto this. They were so excited.  Here\u2019s that story:  “Amid Lagging Polls, Trump Stops Holding High-Dollar Fundraisers.”<\/a>  Here\u2019s the story:  “Donald Trump\u2019s campaign said Tuesday that it has scheduled no more big-money fundraising events to benefit the Republican Party, another sign of the GOP nominee\u2019s struggling campaign and a serious blow to the party\u2019s get-out-the-vote operations with less than two weeks to go until Election Day.”<\/p>\n

And the Never Trumpers are just saying, “See?  See?  He\u2019s so selfish.  See?  He doesn\u2019t care about anybody himself.  See?”  Excuse me.  Let\u2019s first explain what is standard operating procedure, for those who may not know it.  Standard operating procedure is that at the tail end… Well, actually throughout the presidential campaign, the nominee does fundraisers to benefit the party.  Hillary is still doing hers, but in many cases she\u2019s using surrogates to show up for her.  The party gets, I think, 20% of the take at these particular fundraisers. <\/p>\n

Now, the Washington Post says here, “The consequences of halting major fundraisers will compound the challenges facing a candidate and a party already straining to match Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton\u2019s much larger and better-financed operation. Unlike Clinton, who has an extensive turnout operation of her own, Trump and many other GOP candidates down the ballot are relying heavily on the Republican National Committee to bring voters to the polls.”<\/p>\n

And they claim Trump pulling out with just under two weeks of these fundraisers… The Washington Post is trying to say, (impression) “This is Trump being selfish. This is Trump being only himself, this is Trump not caring about the party, this is sure sign the party\u2019s gonna go down the tubes down the ballot. It\u2019s just incredible! We\u2019ve never had a reprobate like Trump. We\u2019ve never had an ingrate like Trump.” I mean, that\u2019s the whole tone of the story, which is why the Never Trumpers liked it and do like it.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s why they\u2019re out there promoting and saying, “See, we told you so.”  Aside from a couple people at the RNC, just what has the Republican Party done for Trump?  Seeing this as a observer, as an observer from afar here, how many Republicans are out there claiming they\u2019re voting Hillary?  How many Republicans are saying there\u2019s no way no matter what, no how that they can vote for Trump?  How many Republicans are out there not even seeking to know the truth about all these sexual abuse accusers? <\/line><\/p>\n

Where are the fact-checkers on these women, by the way?  There aren\u2019t any.  Betsy McCaughey makes that point in the New York Post today<\/a>.  Where is the standard operating procedure?  When somebody shows up and accuses the Republican nominee of something, where is this vaunted opposition research bunch that gets into gear to try dispel it?  I don\u2019t see a lot of assistance forthcoming for Trump.  I don\u2019t know that this has anything to do with why he\u2019s decided… I rather think that what Trump is doing here…<\/p>\n

You can look at this two ways, and the Never Trumpers are looking at it as, “He\u2019s given up. He knows he can\u2019t win and so he\u2019s already planning payback. He\u2019s already thinking about getting even, and so if he\u2019s gonna lose, he\u2019s gonna take as many Republicans down ballot with him.”  That\u2019s the way they\u2019re looking at it.  The way I interpret this is that we got less than two weeks to go, and the objective is to win the presidency, not raise money for the party.  And I think the focus here is going to be to campaign events designed to get out the vote, designed to persuade people to vote for Trump rather than fundraising dinners. <\/p>\n

You tell me what you think here is going on.  But this an example of the kind of barrage that Trump gets.  You get a story like this in the Washington Post that nobody on our side even chooses to question in terms of its motivation. They just accept it hook, line, and sinker, because, after all, it\u2019s the Washington Post.  And you have the Never Trump population on our side who\u2019s eager for him to lose and eager for him to be humiliated. So a story like this that can be spun to portray him as selfish and greedy and not wanting to share is right up there alley. <\/p>\n

But what if all that\u2019s going on here is Trump\u2019s saying, “You know what? You may have done all this way in the past but we\u2019re down to less than two weeks here and I don\u2019t have time to go out there and do all this fundraising.  I\u2019m doing as much as I can for the party by doing what I\u2019m doing.  It\u2019s not me not supporting the party; it\u2019s the party in some case not supporting me.”  I mean, this could get down in the weeds as far as you want to take it.  But I just find it fascinating the way people are looking at this.<\/p>\n

So Trump\u2019s up two in the Bloomberg poll in Florida.  Marco Rubio is up by 10.  Neither are supposed to be happening.  Obama, we think, wins Florida…  We could look it up. It wouldn\u2019t be much trouble.  He won Florida by one point in 2012 — and, by the way, there was no recount asked for, despite how close it was.  <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Obama wins Florida by less than one point in 2012, 0.9 he was up over Romney.  Trump up two in Florida.  And again, Rubio, who was supposed to — everybody down ballot is supposed to lose \u2019cause Trump, too, remember.  Rubio\u2019s up 10 over somebody named Patrick Murphy.  <\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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