{"id":30741,"date":"2008-10-29T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:10:29","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T03:10:29","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:10:29","slug":"race_tightens_drive_bys_nervous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/10\/29\/race_tightens_drive_bys_nervous\/","title":{"rendered":"Race Tightens, Drive-Bys Nervous"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: The race is tightening. The pollsters cannot explain it. The Drive-Bys are concerned. Rasmussen down to three, Gallup at two, the Battleground Poll is at three. Greetings, my friends, and welcome. Rush Limbaugh in the middle of the week on hump day. It\u2019s Wednesday on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, and the telephone number if you want to be on the program is 800-282-2882. Great to have you here, folks. It\u2019s going to take all three hours once again to squeeze everything we have in. <\/p>\n<p>As you know, The Messiah, the Lord Barack Obama, the Most Merciful, making a 30-minute paid stump speech tonight. What are you frowning at, Snerdley? What TV? You watching MSNBC? Forget television. I\u2019m telling you, the polls are tightening up out here. I know you can go to MSNBC and see Obama with 6,000 electoral votes now, McCain with minus 40 electoral votes, you can see all that, but the polls are all over the place. The pollsters themselves are having trouble explaining why this is the case. The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for today shows Obama at 50, McCain at 47, the first time McCain has been within three points of Obama in more than a month and the first time that McCain\u2019s support in the Rasmussen poll has topped 46%. Obama has a five-point advantage among those who plan to vote, but say that something might come up to keep them from voting. Now, this is an interesting aspect, too, we\u2019ll get to in just a moment here, ladies and gentlemen. Hang in there and be tough. <\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve also got a Palestinian making robocalls for Barack Obama talking about how great he will be for Palestinians and so forth. We\u2019ve got the audio of that coming up. Bill McInturff is one of McCain\u2019s pollsters, a big story in TheHill.com yesterday. McCain\u2019s pollster foresees a tight race on election night, and as the program unfolds I\u2019ll give you the details of what McInturff says. It is very encouraging. In the Washington Post today, pollsters are nervous. They might be out of business next week if they get this as wrong as they make it look like they\u2019re going to be. &#8216;Accuracy of Polls a Question in Itself,\u2019 is the story in the Washington Post today. Skeptics challenge the assumptions that are being made. &#8216;Still, there appears to be an undercurrent of worry among some polling professionals and academics. One reason is the wide variation in Obama leads: Just yesterday, an array of polls showed the Democrat leading by as little as two points and as much as 15 points. &#8230; Steven Schier, a political scientist at Carleton College in Minnesota, &#8216;I have been wondering for weeks\u2019 whether the polls are accurately gauging the state of the race. Borrowing from lingo popularized by former defense secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, Schier asked what are the &#8216;unknown unknowns\u2019 about polling this year: For instance, is the sizable cohort of people who don\u2019t respond to pollsters more Republican-leaning this year, perhaps because they don\u2019t want to admit to a pollster that they are not supporting the &#8216;voguish\u2019 Obama?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>This is some of the things that they\u2019re pondering. They can\u2019t explain why their own polls are so far off, why there\u2019s so much variance in all of these polls. I was watching PMSNBC this morning, DNCTV, and they had some hipster on there from, what is it, MySpace or MyFace? MySpace. Oh, it\u2019s Facebook and MySpace. They had some hipster on there from MySpace &#8212; nothing against you people who want to use MySpace. I don\u2019t know why you want to give up every private detail about yourselves, you\u2019ll learn at some point, don\u2019t know why you\u2019d want to do this, but feel free. Have at it. If you desire fame that much, then go for it. They had this guy on there, &#8216;Oh, yeah, oh, we\u2019re going to have a youth vote out there and nobody is even calculating, oh, yeah, I mean it\u2019s going to be dynamite, going to be huge, we\u2019re going to have so many people, so many young people going to be out there, it\u2019s going to shock the world,\u2019 the guy was saying. <\/p>\n<p>Then I see the Las Vegas Review-Journal today: &#8221;Three Groups: Forecasts of Voting Lag So Far\u2019 &#8212; Record turnout was seen for new voters, young, Hispanics. Analysts have predicted that new voters, young voters and Hispanic voters will turn out in record numbers in this election. But as Nevadans continue to flock to the polls, turnout among those three groups is lagging, at least in the early going. &#8230; Traditionally, older people, whites and people who vote consistently tend to turn out at the highest rates overall, said David Damore, a political scientist at UNLV. &#8230; &#8216;What Republicans have been saying is that registration is only half the game, and they have the tried-and-true model to get people out,\u2019 Damore said.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Now, he\u2019s got a point about this, folks, because every year the Democrats go on and on and on and on and they give themselves fist bumps and they pat themselves on the back over all their new registrations but yet they don\u2019t show up in the predicted numbers. And his line that he used here I remember using in 2004, you can go out and register all the people that you want, if you don\u2019t get them to the polls, if they don\u2019t show up &#8212; and you can\u2019t get them all there. ACORN says they\u2019ve registered a million new voters. Don\u2019t know how many of them are legal. Maybe 400,000 of them are legal. And the majority of them are Democrats, of course, but how many of them are going to show up? Now, I\u2019ll tell you what. If all these young people that are forecast to show up because they\u2019ve been registered don\u2019t show up, Obama\u2019s got a problem here. In other words, one of the problems Obama\u2019s got is why bother to vote when Barry has already won? If you\u2019re watching television, this election is over. If you\u2019re watching any of the media on television, it\u2019s over, it\u2019s in the can. Obama\u2019s got it made, so why bother to show up? Why bother to early vote? Doesn\u2019t matter. They have got this a fait accompli. And Obama tonight, it\u2019s going to be an inaugural speak. <\/p>\n<p>The more this guy speaks the better. If you watch this tonight &#8212; and, by the way, folks, I will watch it. There\u2019s an interesting dispatch here from the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. They are located in Tucson. They did a survey, and they asked this: &#8216;Is Barack Obama a brilliant orator, captivating millions through his eloquence? Or is he deliberately using the techniques of neurolinguistic programming (NLP), a covert form of hypnosis developed by Milton Erickson, MD? A fundamental tool of &#8216;conversational hypnosis\u2019 is pacing and leading &#8212; a way for the hypnotist to bypass the listener\u2019s critical faculty by associating repeated statements that are unquestionably accurate with the message he wants to convey.\u2019 Now, who is it that\u2019s most affected by this? <\/p>\n<p>It seems that the people who are most susceptible to being hypnotized this way are the highly educated. That would put me in the risk group, but yet, ladies and gentlemen, I\u2019m going to watch this tonight. He doesn\u2019t hypnotize me. In fact, if you do watch this address &#8212; and I should tell you that in the third hour of the program today, I am going to give my prebuttal to the Obama speech tonight. I am going to do my version of an inaugural address, or campaign speech on this program, and it\u2019s not going to cost me a dime. That will come up in the third hour of the busy broadcast here today on the EIB Network. One thing that Obama\u2019s going to say in his speech tonight, &#8216;We\u2019ve been talking about the same problems for decades, and nothing\u2019s ever done to solve them.\u2019 Well, I have to tell you, in one regard, he\u2019s right. We have been talking about these problems. However, we\u2019ve been doing all kinds of things to solve them, and the things that we\u2019ve been doing to solve them haven\u2019t worked, and that\u2019s what Obama is promising: More of the same that hasn\u2019t worked. That will be a central theme of my inaugural address. These young people aren\u2019t showing up out there, folks, you know, it\u2019s drastic time here. I think Obama better start using some of his illegal campaign stash to give away some free P. Diddy CDs at the polling places.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: The race is tightening. The pollsters cannot explain it. The Drive-Bys are concerned. Rasmussen down to three, Gallup at two, the Battleground Poll is at three. Greetings, my friends, and welcome. Rush Limbaugh in the middle of the week on hump day. 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