{"id":227088,"date":"2017-03-28T14:10:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T18:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=227088"},"modified":"2017-03-29T16:12:01","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T20:12:01","slug":"democrat-pollsters-totally-missed-trump-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/03\/28\/democrat-pollsters-totally-missed-trump-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Pollsters Totally Missed Trump Voters"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: There\u2019s big news here regarding climate change and the Trump administration. This is the New York Times today<\/a>, and I really only need to read you the first paragraph. “President Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Tuesday to roll back most of President Barack Obama\u2019s climate change legacy, celebrating the move as a way to increase the nation\u2019s ‘energy independence\u2019 and to restore thousands of lost coal mining jobs.” And they\u2019re doing it.<\/p>\n

Spicer just announced it at the White House in the press briefing, they\u2019re gonna do it. Roll back Obama\u2019s climate change rules, which will promote energy independence, and it will restore jobs in the coal industry.<\/p>\n

The second paragraph in the New York Times story: “But energy economists say the expected order falls short of both of those goals — in part because the United States already largely relies on domestic sources for the coal and natural gas that fires most of the nation\u2019s power plants.”<\/p>\n

Not just the nation\u2019s power plants. Domestic sources for the coal that supplies the power for most of the electric cars in America. You electric car drivers, you do know that you may as well have a coal-fired furnace in there? “No, Mr. Limbaugh, no, our cars are clean energy, renewable energy, we have batteries in our cars, Mr. Limbaugh.” Yeah, I understand that, but when you go fill up or charge the batteries, where does that power come from?<\/p>\n

“Wind and solar?” No. It doesn\u2019t come from wind and solar. There\u2019s not enough power generated by a wind farm or a solar panel or array to charge your car inside of a week. “Is that right, Mr. Limbaugh?” Pretty damn close. “So where does my energy come from for the battery?” It comes from power plants, who burn coal. I don\u2019t think most of these people know that. I think they\u2019ve bought this renewable clean energy stuff. They probably think their electric cars have a way of converting energy so that it\u2019s constantly reused and that they are a net gain on energy independence, as it\u2019s been presented to \u2019em.<\/p>\n

Look, these are the kind of things that Trump is continuing to do, the expansion, three different factory expansions, Ford Motor Company, the economy rolling, Conference Board consumer index way, way up, job creation is on the march, and it\u2019s real. The stock market is continuing to, a couple blips here, but the stock market is back on an upward track. And all of this is providing consternation to Democrats as they conduct their postmortems and they\u2019re looking into the polling data.<\/p>\n

Politico story today: “Democrats Burned by Polling Blind Spot — As they investigate the forces behind the party\u2019s stunning losses in November, Democrats are coming to a troubling conclusion. The party didn\u2019t just lose among rural white voters on Election Day, it may have failed to capture them in its pre-election polling as well.”<\/p>\n

Now, because you listen to this program, this Politico story is day-old news. We told you about this yesterday, about how the Democrats — these mainstream media polling outfits do not find Trump voters where they live because they don\u2019t go there. They have no desire to go to second and third tier suburbia, fourth tier, which actually you\u2019re getting into rural when you talk about fourth tier suburbia, fourth tier urban. They don\u2019t go there. They wouldn\u2019t be caught dead there.<\/p>\n

If the Democrat Party announces, as they did in November of 2011, if the Democrat announces that the white working class vote is no longer part of the Democrat coalition, then the pollsters are not gonna bother talking to them because the pollsters are out to find out what\u2019s best for the Democrat Party, what\u2019s best for Obama. What will work for Obama, what would hurt Obama. And when they see the Democrat Party abandoning rural white voters, white working-class voters, they don\u2019t poll \u2019em. And that\u2019s where the Trump voters reside, in part. And so the Democrat polling totally missed them.<\/p>\n

Now, the interesting thing about this story is that it indicates that deep down the Democrats understand they lost not because of the Russians. That\u2019s just a media narrative that is a sleight of hand to disguise why they lost. Don\u2019t forget, the Democrat Party since the midterms beginning in 2010, has lost, the official number\u2019s around 1,200 elected seats in the House and the Senate and in the governors\u2019 offices, state legislatures.<\/p>\n

It is a Democrat bloodbath to the point they only now control the governorship and legislative majorities in five states. Forty-five states either are mixed or under — it\u2019s 36 states under Republican control. The Democrats have just been shellacked. Obama\u2019s presidential victories have masked this. The Democrat Party\u2019s been able to point to the Obama presidential victory and say everything looked good, everything\u2019s fine and dandy, we\u2019re cleaning up here.<\/p>\n

But everywhere else you can vote against Democrats people did. The reason they didn\u2019t vote against Obama, it\u2019s not hard. It\u2019s the racial component, because everywhere else people have abandoned the Democrat Party in droves to the point the Democrat Party geographically is a regional party. And so the pollsters don\u2019t even bother to go outside cities, large, small, medium size.<\/p>\n

They never, ever go to rural America or even small-town America. It doesn\u2019t exist. It\u2019s not important to them. The media capitals, the national capital, Silicon Valley, Boston, that\u2019s where the intelligence of the nation is, that\u2019s where the elites are, and they are who matter. And the Democrats have figured this out. The party didn\u2019t just lose among rural white voters on Election Day. It may have failed to capture them in its polling as well.<\/p>\n

“Many pollsters and strategists believe that rural white voters, particularly those without college degrees, eluded the party\u2019s polling altogether — and their absence from poll results may have been both a cause and a symptom of Donald Trump\u2019s upset victory over Hillary Clinton in several states.<\/p>\n

“Determining what exactly happened is one of the most pressing problems facing the out-of-power party. In order to win those voters back — or figure out a future path to victory without them — party strategists say they first need to measure the size of that rural and working-class cohort.” And so they hired somebody called Clarity Campaign Labs in Washington.<\/p>\n

And this guy, John Hagner said that 2016 taught the party a hard lesson about polling in the Trump era. “The folks who would talk to a stranger about politics just aren\u2019t representative of people who wouldn\u2019t.” In other words, Trump people don\u2019t talk to pollsters, didn\u2019t trust \u2019em, didn\u2019t talk to \u2019em, rejected any entreaties by pollsters and therefore the pollsters got flawed data.<\/p>\n

Did you happen to see 60 Minutes on Sunday? This is one of the most delicious moments. The sanctimonious Scott Pelley — you ever seen this guy? I don\u2019t know that he\u2019s ever used the muscles in his face necessary to smile. Or if he has, it looks really weird. It looks artificial. This guy is so dead serious. (imitating Pelley) “Donald Trump is destroying the United States state by state, policy by policy.”<\/p>\n

Anyway, he did a segment on fake news. And you could tell that the premise was that it is stupid, uneducated conservatives that fall for it, and that\u2019s the problem. And that\u2019s why we gotta get rid of Fox News, and that\u2019s why we gotta get rid of talk radio, because Fox News and talk radio are fake news, and they\u2019re feeding fake news to these idiots that make up their audience.<\/p>\n

And so they talked to some firm, some group that has been analyzing fake news for a while now, probably just a bunch of guys, you know, running little scam here. Anybody could study fake news. But these guys told Scott Pelley something he couldn\u2019t believe: College educated liberals fall for it too. His mouth almost fell open in shocked dismay and sadness. “Really?” Oh, yes. Oh, yes. Fox News, it\u2019s effective with everyone. “Even college educated liberals, you say?” Yes, Mr. Pelley, college educated liberals are at the top of the group that fall for fake news. Mr. Pelley, everybody falls for it.<\/p>\n

“That\u2019s a shocking revelation for us here at 60 Minutes.” Yes, I know. But it\u2019s true. They really believe that fake news and the problem with it is that idiotic, dumb, farmer-hick conservatives are the only ones that fall for it, and the fake news they fall for is always fake news about Democrats, fake news about Obama, fake news about Democrat policies. It\u2019s the same thing with their polling. They haven\u2019t the slightest idea where Trump voters actually are, and when they find out, they don\u2019t care to go there. This story is about how they are realizing this.<\/p>\n

And I\u2019m telling you, the real takeaway here, I don\u2019t know whether The Politico intended this or not, but this is a very detailed story and its existence is proof the Democrats really know they lost the election. They really know Russian collusion had nothing to do with this. They really know that a group of Americans did not vote for them on purpose because this particular group of Americans who used to vote Democrat — white working-class people — abandoned them. And they ran straight to Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

Not because the Russians told \u2019em to, not because the Russians tricked \u2019em. The Democrats are trying to find out what they did wrong. I don\u2019t know that they can do that and stick with that long enough. They don\u2019t have the ability to blame themselves, but this story indicates that all this Russia stuff is just a bunch of hooey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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