{"id":14436,"date":"2012-09-28T16:16:11","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T16:16:11","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-09-28T16:16:11","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T16:16:11","slug":"meme_of_the_day_forget_the_bad_economy_it_s_all_over_because_of_the_clinton_bump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/09\/28\/meme_of_the_day_forget_the_bad_economy_it_s_all_over_because_of_the_clinton_bump\/","title":{"rendered":"Meme of the Day: Forget the Bad Economy, It\u2019s All Over Because of the Clinton Bump"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: You know what the meme of the day is today? “It\u2019s over.” It\u2019s over, and the reason it\u2019s over is the Clinton bump. All of the polls that show… There\u2019s another poll out. I don\u2019t know which one it is. There\u2019s another poll out that shows at least half, if not more than half, of the country thinks Obama\u2019s better suited to deal with the economy than Romney. <\/p>\n

And the reason why this is the case is the Clinton bump from the convention, and the Clinton bump from the Democrat convention is this (impression): “There is nobody who could have fixed this, not even I. There is nobody who coulda done any better than what Barack Obama has done. This was such a mess. There isn\u2019t a single president that\u2019s alive or dead that coulda done any better. And I\u2019m gonna tell you right now: <\/p>\n

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“There\u2019s nobody that cares more than Barack Obama. He\u2019s working as hard as I ever worked to get this done for you, and he\u2019s going to do it if you just give him more time.” That\u2019s the Clinton bump, and that is said to have worked. Stephen Hayes <\/a>of the Weekly Standard was on Fox this morning. He said that the polls indicate that most people believe Clinton when he said that nobody coulda done any better than Obama has done in reviving the economy. They think he works hard.<\/p>\n

The Democrat convention worked, because the message from Michelle Obama and everybody else was, “Boy, this guy works hard because he cares.” That worked. Tom Brokaw said it\u2019s gonna take a UFO for Romney to win. So that\u2019s the meme of the day, and then I got an e-mail last night. Subject line: “So How Do We Explain This?” It\u2019s early voting out of Iowa. And here\u2019s the ratio. According to I think it was the Des Moines Register, 100,000 Democrats have early voted and 6,000 Republicans. <\/p>\n

So the indication there is that the Democrats are far more enthusiastic than anybody knows, and the Republicans don\u2019t care, and the reason the Republicans don\u2019t care is that Romney\u2019s campaign isn\u2019t exciting anybody. That\u2019s the theme for the day. That\u2019s the media theme. That\u2019s the narrative or what have you. That\u2019s what\u2019s out there.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: The theme is it\u2019s gonna take a UFO for Romney to win. It\u2019s over, as Tom Brokaw said. These polls, even if it\u2019s not Obama eight, ten, 12, it\u2019s over.<\/p>\n

“Rush, come on. You have to admit…” I heard this all night last night, folks. “You gotta admit, it\u2019s looking bad. Obama\u2019s gaining ground. He\u2019s gaining ground everywhere! The Clinton bump. The economy, economic news is bad, yeah, but people don\u2019t care. They think he\u2019s really trying. They think he\u2019s working hard and just gonna take some more time. They don\u2019t think anybody else coulda done any better, and besides that, what\u2019s Romney doing to thrill anybody? <\/p>\n

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“Romney\u2019s not jazzing anybody. Come on, Rush, maybe not be eight\/12 points, but you know…” That\u2019s the meme. Let\u2019s just continue go to the Stack, okay, ripping things off the top. I didn\u2019t put \u2019em any particular order. This is Weekly Standard, Jeffrey Anderson. “For all of the wishful thinking in the mainstream press about President Obama\u2019s positioning 40 days before this election, Obama\u2019s approval rating looks remarkably similar to what it was on this date in 2010 — shortly before his party lost a historic 63 House seats and 6 Senate seats.<\/p>\n

“On September 27, 2010 — exactly two years ago — Rasmussen Reports showed Obama\u2019s net approval rating among likely voters to be minus-3 percentage points (with 48% approving and 51% disapproving). Among those who felt ‘strongly,\u2019 Obama\u2019s net approval rating was minus-14 points (with 27% ‘strongly\u2019 approving and 41% ‘strongly\u2019 disapproving). Today, Rasmussen Reports shows Obama\u2019s net approval rating among likely voters to be minus-3 points (with 48% approving and 51% disapproving). <\/p>\n

“Among those who feel ‘strongly,\u2019 Obama\u2019s net approval rating is minus-14 points (with 28% ‘strongly\u2019 approving and 42% ‘strongly\u2019 disapproving). So, two years after the biggest Republican gains in the House since before World War II, Americans remain every bit as unimpressed with the way Obama is handling his job as president as they were then.” Well, I don\u2019t know how that fits in with the fact that it\u2019s over. <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know how.<\/p>\n

How do we plug this into “The Clinton bump,” and “voters overwhelmingly prefer Obama to fix the economy \u2019cause he really cares, and he\u2019s working really hard; he\u2019s very likable, and nobody coulda done any better”? How does that fit? I keep asking about 2010<\/a>, by the way, “These polls with all these heavily weighted Democrat samples are using vote turnout in 2008 and even 2004. Well, why not 2010?” <\/p>\n

They all come back at me and say, “Well, that wasn\u2019t a presidential race, Mr. Limbaugh. You don\u2019t know how we do our jobs here. You\u2019re trying to find good news where there isn\u2019t any, Mr. Limbaugh, and I appreciate that you have to do that for your audience but, really, you can\u2019t look at 2010. No, 2010 has no relationship to what is happening now.”<\/p>\n

“Oh, it doesn\u2019t?” <\/p>\n

“No, Mr. Limbaugh.”<\/line><\/p>\n

Political professionals, my friends, are telling me this. I\u2019m e-mailing them back and forth. I\u2019m asking these polling professionals: “Why is nobody look at 2010?” <\/p>\n

“Well, that\u2019s because you don\u2019t understand how we do things. You know, you\u2019re good on the radio, Mr. Limbaugh, but you don\u2019t really understand that we can\u2019t look at 2010. It\u2019s not a presidential race. There\u2019s nothing about 2010 that tells us a thing about 2012.” <\/p>\n

“Oh. Oh. Okay.” <\/p>\n

So then I heard Steve Hayes today on Fox basically say, “Yep, the polls are saying that there was a big Clinton bump and that everybody thinks Obama really cares and he really, really, really is trying, and just needs more time. And nobody coulda done any better.” <\/p>\n

What\u2019s next in the Sack? Peel this away. See. This is Rasmussen Reports, trust on issues: “51% Trust Romney More on Economy, 44% Trust Obama More — Mitt Romney continues to hold a seven-point lead in voter trust over President Obama when it comes to the economy…” But that\u2019s not the theme today. The theme today is that there was a Clinton bump. You mighta heard about this. Clinton did a speech at the Democrat convention in which he said (impression), “I tell you, folks, this is such a mess. <\/p>\n

“This economy is such a mess there isn\u2019t a sitting president, there isn\u2019t a former president, there\u2019s not a dead president who coulda done any better. Not even I! No, not even I. And I had one of the greatest economies ever. You know that. I had growth. You remember that. Not even I coulda fixed this, and there\u2019s nobody working harder than old Barack and nobody — nobody! — nobody cares more.” (deep sigh) Clinton bump. “51% Trust Romney More on Economy, 44% Trust Obama More.” <\/p>\n

“Yeah, but, Rush, the Romney campaign is such a bore. It\u2019s just dryball. There\u2019s nothing exciting people. It\u2019s really over, Rush.” <\/p>\n

Okay, I get it. What\u2019s the next one here? CNN: “Workers Give Up in Los Angeles — The unemployment rate has been falling lately in Los Angeles County, but not for the right reasons. Last month, the jobless rate for the county fell to 11%, down from 12.4% a year earlier. While that\u2019s far higher than the 8.1% unemployment rate for the nation as a whole, it nevertheless seems to show progress for [LA]… right?<\/p>\n

“Wrong. In Los Angeles, the falling unemployment rate is slightly misleading, just as it has been for the country overall. When surveyed by the government, fewer LA residents say they\u2019re unemployed compared to a year ago. But it\u2019s not because they\u2019re finding jobs. It\u2019s because they\u2019re dropping out of the labor force altogether.” Oh. “Just over 100,000 of workers have left the Los Angeles labor force since the beginning of the year, according to seasonally adjusted data from the California Employment Development Department.”<\/p>\n

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So workers, they\u2019re leaving. They\u2019re leaving the job market. That\u2019s why unemployment is falling. Nobody\u2019s getting jobs; they\u2019re just leaving. Some are leaving the state literally. Some are just leaving the job market. I had a story the last show and I didn\u2019t get to it. What is it? Comcast is shutting down thousands of jobs in California and leaving because of business conditions. And Governor “Moonbeam” Brown moved into action and chastised Comcast. (paraphrased exchange) “You better not blame the state economy for that!”<\/p>\n

Comcast reissued a statement and said, “We\u2019re not leaving because of business climate here. We\u2019ve got different opportunities in a different state.” California put out a statement, “It\u2019s good that they clarified that they\u2019re not leaving because of lousy economic conditions in the state,” but they are. So Comcast is shutting down in California, and Campbell\u2019s soup is shutting down thousands of jobs in Sacramento. That was announced yesterday. They\u2019re leaving. <\/p>\n

But the Clinton bump! <\/p>\n

Nobody could do any better.<\/p>\n

No, the American people are fully on board with Obama here on the economy. <\/p>\n

Romney doesn\u2019t have a prayer now. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s over. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: From the top of the Stack here (I\u2019m just ripping things off, didn\u2019t put anything in order today), the Weekly Standard: “Americans\u2019 Incomes Have Fallen $3,040 During the Obama ‘Recovery\u2019 — Americans must be wondering how much more of this ‘recovery\u2019 they can afford. New figures from the Census Bureau … show that the typical American household\u00c2\u2019s real (inflation-adjusted) income has actually dropped 5.7% during the Obama ‘recovery.'” It gets worse: “[I]ncomes have dropped even more during the ‘recovery\u2019 than they did during the recession.”<\/p>\n

The average American income is off $3,000 during the Obama recovery, but, boy, there\u2019s the Clinton bump! Obama cares, and he\u2019s really been working hard, and nobody coulda done any better. Under any president you woulda lost the $3,000, so that doesn\u2019t matter. And since Obama cares and works hard, that\u2019s why we\u2019re told today that it\u2019s over. The American people vote Obama when it comes to the economy, even despite news like this. <\/p>\n

Exactly. <\/p>\n

And, by the way, Jay-Z, Jay-Z said (paraphrased), “You know what? We need a smaller government. I believe in a smaller government, but I\u2019m with Obama \u2019cause he black. I gotta respect a man who is the first black president ever.” That\u2019s Jay-Z. You know what? Obama didn\u2019t even have to give him a phone.<\/a> <\/p>\n