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RUSH: Here\u2019s Patty in Naugatuck, Connecticut. Great to have you. Glad you waited. Welcome to the program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you for taking my call. I have a two-part question.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Has the reduction in telephone land lines affected the validity of the polls, and if so, how?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, it has. Most definitely it has. The reason is that there is no national directory for cell numbers, so you can\u2019t get a good target demographic sample. The people who are remaining with land line usage, of course, tend to be in the older demographics, and that\u2019s fine, but it doesn\u2019t give you nearly the cross-section of the population demographic that you need.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But the polls are a frustrating thing to me, too. For example, Patty, we were talking last week or earlier this week, where are the polls on the vulnerable Democrats in the Senate this November? Where are those polls? Remember, Larry Sabato<\/a>, the brilliant political scientist from the University of Virginia earlier this week said, “What wave? Everybody\u2019s talking about a Republican wave election. I don\u2019t see any wave.” Because there aren\u2019t any polls. Polls have become such elements of manipulation for the media. Polls are not used to reflect public opinion anymore. They are used to shape it. And that is a huge difference, huge. <\/line><\/p>\n

Poll results are now lead news stories, for crying out loud. Or a lead news story today is not about telling people what\u2019s happening or what did happen. It\u2019s about shaping public opinion, be it a poll, be it any news story. The lead story out of Ferguson, Missouri, was not to tell people what went on. It was to create a template or a narrative of what they wanted people to believe about what went on. <\/p>\n

So the fact that there aren\u2019t any polls on these Democrats who are vulnerable in November, Democrat Senators, tells me that the people in charge of the polls don\u2019t want to put the data out \u2019cause it\u2019s too devastating. ‘Cause if the polls showed that the Republicans are not gonna win as big as everybody thinks, those polls would be the lead item every day, and there aren\u2019t any. The polls are being taken, don\u2019t misunderstand. They\u2019re just not being reported. <\/p>\n

Now, the candidates are doing their polls. But they never release their internal data. They always keep that close to the vest. So the whole subject of polls is a irritation to me, too. I mean sometimes they\u2019re right on the money, have to acknowledge it, but they still are used for ways that are diametrically opposite what most people, particularly low-information people, think they\u2019re for. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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