![](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/MittObamaGallup.jpg\"\/)
<\/a>RUSH: That\u2019s Ann Romney, describing the dog. Don\u2019t you understand what\u2019s going on here? The Romneys are out of touch, they\u2019re rich, plus, as is the case with all rich people, they\u2019re cold-hearted and cruel. They put their dog on the roof of the car while they\u2019re driving around. That\u2019s just mean, don\u2019t you understand, Snerdley? It\u2019s just mean. Oh, this is chump change compared to what\u2019s coming. That\u2019s nothing compared to what\u2019s coming. There\u2019s a way of dealing with all of this, but it isn\u2019t happening yet, and I don\u2019t think the Republican establishment has the slightest idea how to deal with this stuff. I\u2019m gonna tell \u2019em how, in due course. It\u2019s still only April. If I tell \u2019em now, they\u2019ll forget it by June. Here\u2019s George Stephanopoulos, also on Good Morning America today. It\u2019s self-explanatory. Just listen to it.<\/p>\nSTEPHANOPOULOS: One poll shows Romney still faces this challenge getting voters to like him, but the Gallup poll dead heat with the president.<\/p>\n
BERMAN: Romney\u2019s favorite issue is serious. He\u2019s the first nominee in our polling to be underwater at this time. More people have an unfavorable view of him than favorable.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Look, there are a couple of polls out here. The Gallup poll has Romney ahead overall by a couple points. The Gallup poll has Romney ahead massively with independents. Then there is a CNN poll that shows almost the exact opposite. A lot of people have looked into that CNN poll. Do you know what the CNN poll does not tell us? The CNN poll did not break down what percentage of their respondents are Republican, Democrat, and independent. They don\u2019t tell us that. And that happens to be very important in a poll like this. I don\u2019t have time to get into all the details of this.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m gonna ask those of you in this audience to trust me, as I always do. The CNN poll… If you look at the cross tabs, if you look at the questions, if you the look of information that they provide, the CNN poll is worthless. It doesn\u2019t mean anything. We don\u2019t know what the sample sizes of the various self-identified parties are, why it\u2019s a sample of 800-some-odd. The CNN poll has Romney down by nine points. It was probably done by their employee over there, Hilary Rosen. She\u2019s who probably did the poll. The Gallup poll has these people scared to death. Let\u2019s go to the Washington Post. This is a better way to illustrate this.<\/p>\n
Chris Cillizza and Aaron Blake: “Why the presidential race is going to be closer than you think.” Now, this Gallup poll (we shared with you the results of it yesterday) has started some fear in the Drive-By Media. And the ABC\/Washington Post poll a while back didn\u2019t help, either. That came out at the same time the New York Times poll came out that showed Obama with a 41% approval number. That\u2019s about a month ago now. “In Gallup\u00c2\u2019s first tracking poll of the general election, Romney took 47% to Obama\u00c2\u2019s 45% nationally. Both men won 90% of their self-identified partisans, with Romney\u00c2\u2019s overall margin coming from his six-point edge among independent voters.”<\/p>\n
The rest of this Washington Post story warns their readers: Don\u2019t think this election\u2019s a slam dunk. This election\u2019s nowhere near over. This election\u2019s gonna be closer than any of us thinks. (This is from the perspective of people that think Obama should win and they want him to win in a landslide, and they\u2019re a little bit upset.) Here\u2019s some more liberal poll the jitters from The Politico: “Obama Lead Over Mitt Shrinking.” It\u2019s a Reuters poll that shows Obama\u2019s lead now down from 11 to just above the margin of error. It\u2019s a poll of 900 registered voters, and a hundred who weren\u2019t registered.<\/p>\n
Why that kind of sample?<\/p>\n
Sometimes they do “adults,” which is not very accurate in terms of election indications, or “registered voters.” “Likely voters” is the sample you want. This is 900 registered voters and a hundred who aren\u2019t registered, and Obama\u2019s lead has plummeted from 11 points to four in this Reuters poll. LA Times: “CNN, Gallup Polls Find Opposite Front-Runners in Presidential Race.” Now, this story\u2019s perspective looks at all of this, the internals and so forth, from the standpoint that Obama wins everything — Obama\u2019s gonna win — and they\u2019re shocked! They\u2019re confused. They think Obama\u2019s got this in the bag, maybe even with a landslide.<\/p>\n
‘Cause they think Romney\u2019s the biggest blithering idiot to come down the pike and they\u2019re gonna wipe the floor with him because of Obamacare and Romneycare. Yet these polls don\u2019t show that. And these people, remember, live and die by polls, even though the polls today don\u2019t matter. This is April, not November. But they still live and die by \u2019em. They rely on these polls to make news, to shape public opinion. From The Politico: “Working Class Whites Wary of Obama, Considering a Vote for a Republican for the First Time Since 1984.” Quinnipiac has Romney up by three on page two of this story. The only poll out there that has Obama ahead is CNN. Every other…<\/p>\n
Well, the Reuters poll has him up by the margin of error by four. Everywhere else he\u2019s down. This story, “Working Class Whites Wary of Obama…” For those of you new to the program, let me remind you that there was a story last November in the New York Times: “The Future of the Obama Coalition,” by Thomas B. Edsall (who used to write for the Washington Post now for Pulitzer-winning Huffing and Puffington Post). And it\u2019s all about how Obama has written off “white working-class voters.” He doesn\u2019t have a prayer with the Reagan-Democrat types. “All pretense of…” I\u2019m reading from it now.<\/p>\n
“All pretense of trying to go win a majority of the white working class has been effectively jettisoned in favor of cementing a center-left coalition made up on the one hand of voters who have gotten ahead on the basis of education — professors, artists, designers, editors, humorous managers, lawyers, librarians,” blah, blah, “and a second substantial constituency of lower-income voters who are African-American and Hispanic. Those are the voting blocs they\u2019re going for. “White working-class voters,” quote, “have been jettisoned,” and they know it because they\u2019re now showing up in polling as not supporting Obama.<\/p>\n
But the Obama campaign is “jettisoning,” writing off “white working-class voters.”<\/p>\n
They know they can\u2019t win with that group.<\/p>\n
What does that tell you?<\/p>\n
Throw the race out of it: Working-class voters.<\/p>\n
Obama\u2019s going after the elites in the academy, in Hollywood and entertainment, and minorities.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: As you know, Gallup started its presidential daily tracking poll yesterday. So today is day two of the Gallup daily tracking poll. Romney is up by five today, 48-43. He was up by two yesterday. He\u2019s up by five today. There\u2019s a Washington Post story today with this headline: “Romney is the Least Popular Presidential Nominee in Three Decades.” And that\u2019s not even true. Even in their own article it\u2019s not true. They point out that Bill Clinton had worse numbers in his reelection run at one point in 1996 than Romney has — folks, it is journalistic malpractice what\u2019s going on here. <\/p>\n
Now, Snerdley, what did you just ask me about Romney and likability, what was the question you just asked me? It was about the dog. (interruption) No, no, no. You wanted to know how somebody is popular when they\u2019re not popular and disliked when they\u2019re not disliked. You asked me when somebody\u2019s gonna change that? Just five minutes ago, you were yelling at me in here. What was the question? Oh. Okay. That\u2019s what it was. Snerdley was beside himself with the Thomas B. Edsall story, this paragraph. “All pretense of trying to win a majority of the white working class has been effectively jettisoned in favor of cementing a center-left coalition made up,” of elites in journalism and entertainment and academia, combined with African-American and Hispanic minorities. <\/p>\n
The point being, this is Thomas B. Edsall and he\u2019s in the Obama campaign, he just writes a story that\u2019s in the New York Times last November, they\u2019re writing off white working-class voters. They\u2019re not seeking their votes. So Snerdley said, “When is somebody going to write what a mean guy this is?” This is my question. Every one of these polls where Obama is losing to Romney, every one of them, the network reporting it says, “But Obama\u2019s popularity is at an all-time high,” or, “Obama\u2019s likability numbers are skyrocketing. People really like Obama. But they just are not hip to his policies.” Where, on the other hand, Romney\u2019s looked at as this mean-spirited, uber-rich guy. <\/p>\n
My question is, I want to know what is there so much to like about Barack Obama? This guy says cold, mean things. He has policies which are destructive and very harmful to individuals and institutions. He\u2019s not a warm and engaging personality. What is this likability? Where does it come from? If Romney is not liked, why is Obama liked? None of this makes any sense to me. Romney\u2019s not dividing the country. Romney\u2019s not setting fires all over the place to create anger and frustration. Romney\u2019s not out there supporting bounties by the New Black Panther Party. Romney is not telling his attorney general not to pursue the Black Panther Party. Romney\u2019s not doing anything to divide the people of this country, and everything Obama\u2019s doing is dividing the people of this country. <\/p>\n