{"id":32595,"date":"2009-06-05T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T02:20:19","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T02:20:19","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T02:20:19","slug":"rasmussen_strong_disapproval_of_obama_rises_24_to_boycott_gm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2009\/06\/05\/rasmussen_strong_disapproval_of_obama_rises_24_to_boycott_gm\/","title":{"rendered":"Rasmussen: Strong Disapproval of Obama Rises; 24% to Boycott GM"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: You know Scott Rasmussen has on his polling site&#8230; He keeps track of something calls the Rasmussen Presidential Tracking Poll, the presidential approval index, and what he does is, he keeps track of the line of &#8216;strongly disapprove\u2019 and &#8216;strongly approve\u2019 of Obama and then comes up with the presidential approval index. Now, since Obama was inaugurated, his approval index has hovered anywhere from plus-20 to plus-2. Today, it\u2019s at zero. They\u2019re both at 34. Thirty-four percent strongly approve and 34% strongly disapprove. <\/p>\n<p>The overall approval number is 54%, not in the sixties. It\u2019s 54%. That\u2019s just 1% over his vote percentage in the election. Now, I don\u2019t know what to make of this. This poll is different than the other polls out there. The other-government run polls, government-run media polls are all in the sixties with Obama. You know, it\u2019s tempting to take hold of a poll like this and say, &#8216;Whoa, it\u2019s finally starting to come together this tipping point!\u2019 But I\u2019m not so sure. You know, I have an inherent &#8212; not a distrust but an &#8212; arm\u2019s-length on all polling data. Nothing against Scott Rasmussen here. I know he\u2019s an accurate and fair guy. So I don\u2019t doubt his results. <\/p>\n<p>I just don\u2019t know that it means anything right now. But if it does, if it does mean anything, this happened five months into the Obama presidency. Now, the way Rasmussen tracks this, he says, &#8216;The president\u2019s ratings have slipped since GM filed for bankruptcy to initiate a new government bailout and takeover and only 26% of Americans believe that GM bailout was a good idea. Nearly as many support a boycott of GM products,\u2019 and I know that\u2019s true! (laughing) I\u2019ve been hearing from people left and right. Nobody wants to support an Obama company. For those of you for those of you that work at GM you have to understand the people angry are not angry at you. They\u2019re not angry at General Motors. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125108.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" class=\"alignright\"\/>The people saying they don\u2019t want to buy anything at General Motors are not mad at General Motors. They don\u2019t want to patronize Obama. They don\u2019t want to do anything to make Obama\u2019s policies work! This is an untold story, by the way. Of course, the government-controlled media is not gonna report anything like this but there are a lot of people who are not going to buy from Chrysler or General Motors as long as it is perceived Barack Obama is running it, because people do not want his policy to work here because this is antithetical to the American economic way of life. The government does not own car companies; the government does not design cars, not in a country that works. So people aren\u2019t going to buy products from companies that Obama runs. (interruption)<\/p>\n<p>What are you smiling at? You disagree with that? (interruption) Oh, you guys are&#8230; I love you people on the staff, but you are just too worried about me. Dawn is afraid that what I just said will be translated by the media, &#8216;Rush wants GM to fail.\u2019 Did I say that? Did I say, &#8216;I want General Motors to fail?\u2019 (interruption) No, I didn\u2019t. (interruption) Well, yes, they can remove the&#8230; Yeah, they could clip it. They could remove the &#8216;did I say\u2019 pfft, and get, &#8216;I want General Motors,\u2019 and I\u2019m just telling you. You know, I\u2019m looking at this poll. We\u2019ve got&#8230; It\u2019s at zero here. He has 34% strongly approve, 34% strongly disapprove. <\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s zero. His presidential approval index is zero. &#8216;In the Rasmussen poll his overall approval number is 54%, one percentage point above his 53% total of the vote,\u2019 and Rasmussen said, &#8216;26% of the respondents in his poll are going to boycott General Motors products.\u2019 I simply am pointing out here to people that work at General Motors it has nothing to do with you. It has nothing to do with your products. It has to do with the fact that these 26% don\u2019t want to patronize Obama. They don\u2019t want to patronize an Obama- or government-owned company because they don\u2019t want it to work. So if you say, &#8216;Yeah, but maybe the 26% want GM to fail.\u2019 I would argue&#8230; Should I say this? If would argue that if Obama has to take it over and run it, could we just admit that it\u2019s failed?<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Pepper in Houston. Pepper, thank you for calling. Great to have you with us, sir.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Rush, I &#8212; mega dittos, first off. I just want to say, what you were just talking about there about not buying GM products because of Obama, it\u2019s exactly how I feel. I just&#8230; I have felt this way now for weeks. I have driven a Chevy Tahoe for several years. In fact, right now I\u2019ve got about 150,000 miles on it. I won\u2019t even look at another one right now, and I just want to say thanks. At least somebody understands what\u2019s going on here.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, I appreciate that, Pepper. Look, I know that you\u2019re out there. I think this is also why &#8212; for those of you that work in labor unions &#8212; I think you should understand here that one of the reasons why there may be&#8230; I don\u2019t want to say the word &#8216;animus,\u2019 but why there may be opposition here to all that\u2019s going on here to build up unions and so forth is that Obama is behind it. You see, most Americans understand that it is not the America they know and love, that they understand, that they grew up in, where the government owns automobile companies. Tells CEOs what they can make and what they can\u2019t earn. Tells bondholders to go to hell. Tells people who have invested risky money in investments and then lose it all, &#8216;Just go away.\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>This is not how the America they understand operates so Obama is taking over all these industries, and the people in this country, Rasmussen says 26% say they\u2019re going to boycott General Motors products. The reason is because people do not want this to work. They do&#8230; (interruption) I know the story going on. This is about this schlub up in Wisconsin? (interruption) Yes, I know all about the guy. I know all about it. Look, that\u2019s not even big enough for me to worry about. That guy is such a Podunk, it\u2019s not even worthy of our time on the EIB Network. I wish you wouldn\u2019t interrupt me with this stuff. If you\u2019re going to interrupt me every time I\u2019m on that stupid government-run channel, then I\u2019m going to be doing nothing but reacting to the government-run channel!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125108.Par.4584.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" class=\"alignright\"\/>All they do is run videotape of me and people complaining about me. We\u2019re talking about government run MSNBC. Some little Podunk Republican moderate liberal Republican was thrown out of his leadership post in Wausau, Wisconsin, some county there because he dared criticize me. And so this guy is now loved and adored by government-run media. Big whoop! This has been going on for three days. This is not even new news. This has been recycled. Anyway, the point is, be it General Motors, be it Chrysler &#8212; whatever else Obama ends up controlling and running &#8212; the American people are not going to want it to succeed. So I want all of you who work at General Motors and all of you who are members of labor unions to understand that the opposition to you is not because of you. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s because of opposition to Obama and turning America upside down and 180 degrees out of phase from what America is. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: You know Scott Rasmussen has on his polling site&#8230; He keeps track of something calls the Rasmussen Presidential Tracking Poll, the presidential approval index, and what he does is, he keeps track of the line of &#8216;strongly disapprove\u2019 and &#8216;strongly approve\u2019 of Obama and then comes up with the presidential approval index. 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