{"id":15819,"date":"2012-05-01T19:27:15","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T19:27:15","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-05-01T19:27:15","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T19:27:15","slug":"dick_morris_obama_will_lose_big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/05\/01\/dick_morris_obama_will_lose_big\/","title":{"rendered":"Dick Morris: Obama Will Lose Big"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH:  I\u2019m told that Ronaldus Magnus in 1984 did not do a single fundraiser.  Sounds hard to believe.  But that\u2019s what I\u2019m told.  And we can probably confirm that, but he won in an historic landslide in 1984, didn\u2019t do one fundraiser.  Well, unless you count the Republican convention, gotta go to that. <\/p>\n<p>But anyway, I just got an e-mail.  How many times have we talked on this program about the Fox show, The Five?  Quite a bit.  I just got an e-mail from somebody in the subscriber inbox, Rush 24\/7: &#8220;Rush, have you ever watched The Five?  What do you think of that show?&#8221;  (laughing)  We love The Five here on the EIB Network.  It\u2019s a fascinating concept.  There\u2019s not a single host, although I\u2019ll tell you this.  I think, the way it works out, Dana Perino is essentially&#8230; the way I watch that show, Dana Perino, look at her eyes when they show her on camera when any of the others are speaking. She\u2019s got this piano teacher look in her eyes, waiting for a mistake, and she\u2019s gonna pull out that ruler and rap their knuckles if they get it wrong. <\/p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/MorrisObamaRomney.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s looking around.  She\u2019s almost like the&#8230; not the controlling, but the dominant entity there that\u2019s there to keep order and make sure the kids behave, and, you know, Gutfeld is her biggest challenge, keep him in line.  And then Beckel.  And then Andrea &#8220;Tarantula.&#8221;  But it\u2019s a fascinating show the way they put it together. I\u2019m fascinated by it.  So, yes, we watch.<\/p>\n<p>Okay.  Dick Morris, former Clinton adviser, was on Fox last night.  Hannity said, &#8220;They\u2019re taking all this out of context, Dick, Obama is. The president, with a smirk on his face, is taking Romney out of context.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>MORRIS:  Obama is digging himself into a gigantic hole here.  For the last four or five or six weeks, maybe the last two or three months, this class warfare, such an obvious distortion of the negative as this, his trying to divide the country along ethnic lines as well.  I know that he\u2019s paying a price for it.  In the polling that I\u2019ve seen, Obama\u2019s personal positives were always about 20 points higher than his job approval.  In the polling I\u2019ve seen lately, they\u2019re even.  In other words, his approval has always been in the mid- or low forties. Now his personal favorability has dropped to that.  I think that the hope and change in the public\u2019s mind has been replaced with a nasty surly visceral figure.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0700618600?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=theofficiw0c2-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0700618600\"><img id=\"eZObject_61938\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rise-of-the-President-s-Permanent-Campaign_large.jpg\"\/><\/a>RUSH:  Whoa!  Dick Morris: Class warfare, not working.  But he wasn\u2019t finished.  Hannity then said, &#8220;When you look at Karl Rove\u2019s electoral map, it becomes more difficult for Romney.  That has some people I know concerned,&#8221; \u2019cause Karl Rove\u2019s electoral map right now has Obama almost insurmountably ahead in the Electoral College. So Hannity\u2019s asking Morris about that.  &#8220;Does that concern you, Dick?  The electoral map?  Or is this the type of thing that it\u2019s way too early to tell?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>MORRIS:  I went back to 1964, and I tested how every incumbent president polls on Election Day as opposed to the final Gallup poll.  I found that six of the eight not only didn\u2019t get a single undecided vote, they lost some of the support that the last poll gave them.  So when I see a poll that shows Romney ahead of Obama by 47-46, which I think is the last Rasmussen poll, as far as I\u2019m concerned, that is a 54-46 defeat for Obama, and more likely, a 55-45 defeat.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Ooh, Dick Morris predicting a landslide right there last night on Hannity on Fox. Romney, 55-45 victory, according to polling data analysis.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Here\u2019s the quote from the book, The Rise of the President\u2019s Permanent Campaign, by Brendan J. Doherty.  &#8220;Carter held four re-election fundraisers in the 1980 campaign, Reagan zero in 1984.&#8221;  People wanted to know.  &#8220;That doesn\u2019t sound right, Rush.&#8221; That\u2019s from a book by Brendan J. Doherty, The Rise of the President\u2019s Permanent Campaign.  Don\u2019t doubt me. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: I\u2019m told that Ronaldus Magnus in 1984 did not do a single fundraiser. Sounds hard to believe. But that\u2019s what I\u2019m told. And we can probably confirm that, but he won in an historic landslide in 1984, didn\u2019t do one fundraiser. Well, unless you count the Republican convention, gotta go to that. 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