{"id":30692,"date":"2008-10-22T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:15:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T03:15:02","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:15:02","slug":"see_i_told_you_so_polls_are_close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/10\/22\/see_i_told_you_so_polls_are_close\/","title":{"rendered":"See, I Told You So: Polls are Close"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125112.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"114\" height=\"140\" class=\"alignright\"\/>RUSH: Now, ladies and gentlemen, in an effort to keep you engaged, in an effort to keep you enthused and upbeat, let me go back in time to the recent past and remind you of my prediction about polls. I said, &#8216;The polls are going to be used to affect your thinking; the polls will be used to influence your thinking and your attitudes and opinions. The polls will be used to depress you. The polls will be used to dispirit you.\u2019 And I said, &#8216;As we get close, however, the polls are going to have to tighten up, because at the end of the election, at the end of the day, pollsters do have their credibility to be concerned about. They all want to get it right at the end of the day.\u2019 They hope to influence Obama winning big with all the pre-election polls, but you get down to the wire and they have to start getting close. And, lo and behold, a new AP poll just posted shows the presidential race has tightened after the final debate, McCain gaining among whites and people earning less than $50,000. Two weeks before the election McCain and Obama are essentially running even among likely voters. It\u2019s Obama 44, McCain 43 among those voters who are considered likely to vote on November 4th. AP says the race is still volatile. Three weeks ago the same poll found that Obama had a seven-point lead. There\u2019s a new Fox poll out today that\u2019s just crazy: 49-40, Obama, but yet 80 to 52 on who people think is more qualified to be president. It\u2019s an astounding number in McCain\u2019s favor in terms of qualifications, but Obama is up 49-40. Hello, Bradley Effect. <\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Just as predicted, ladies and gentlemen, the polls are starting to tighten. AP, 44-43 Obama, dead heat. &#8216;But, Rush, but, Rush, Zogby is at ten.\u2019 Yeah, they\u2019ve been bouncing all over the place on Zogby. &#8216;But the CBS\/New York Times poll has Obama at 13.\u2019 I know, but that\u2019s CBS and the New York Times. We have the Battleground Poll at one point, we got AP at one point, and, &#8216;contrary to other polls, some of which show Obama ahead by double digits, the IBD\/TIPP poll, Investor\u2019s Business Daily, shows a sudden tightening of Obama\u2019s lead to 3.7 from 6.0. McCain has picked up three points in the west and with independents, married women, and those with some college. He\u2019s also gaining momentum in the suburbs, where he\u2019s gone from dead even a week ago to a 20-point lead in American suburbs. Obama padded gains in urban areas and with lower class households but he slipped four points with parents.\u2019 He slipped four points with parents. <\/p>\n<p>Now, I think some of this tightening is a backlash to the Colin Powell endorsement. All the Drive-Bys say, &#8216;Oh, well that\u2019s it. Colin Powell puts Obama over the top, that\u2019s it, that\u2019s the most distinguished endorsement.\u2019 I think just the opposite. I think the Powell endorsement indicates that that\u2019s a racial endorsement, it\u2019s based on race, not racism, based on race, and there are a number of other factors. You can\u2019t ignore all the excitement in the large crowds that Palin has generated wherever she\u2019s gone. The Drive-Bys trying to put out news saying that McCain\u2019s giving up in Colorado when he\u2019s not, the very day that Palin drew record crowds in Grand Junction, Colorado. Chuck Schumer out there, oh, yeah, it\u2019s going to be a landslide, all the Democrats talking about it\u2019s going to be a landslide. But, man, they\u2019re not acting like it. They\u2019re having to cheat with ACORN, their media is having to lie and cheat. All of their support groups are doing everything they can to portray this as a landslide, yet they\u2019re acting like it\u2019s going to be close. And it is going to be close.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Are you sitting down, ladies and gentlemen? I have more polling data that has just been brought to my attention. &#8216;A new Rasmussen Fox poll shows the Republican ticket in Ohio is up over Obama 49-47; the flip-flop in results follows Joe the Plumber\u2019s doubts over Obama\u2019s tax plan.\u2019 This, by the way, dovetails with the McCain campaign\u2019s internals in Ohio. So now it\u2019s 49-47 McCain over Obama. &#8216;Rasmussen Reports shows McCain with his highest level of support in Ohio since mid-September. Two percent are still undecided. The same poll places McCain ahead in Florida 49-48. Both battleground states now too close to call with Florida\u2019s 27 electoral votes the big bonus prize.\u2019 Don\u2019t go wobbly on me out there, my friends. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Now, ladies and gentlemen, in an effort to keep you engaged, in an effort to keep you enthused and upbeat, let me go back in time to the recent past and remind you of my prediction about polls. 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