{"id":214513,"date":"2016-09-27T17:41:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T21:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/09\/27\/snap_polls_show_widening_disconnect_between_the_drive_bys_and_rest_of_us_\/"},"modified":"2016-09-27T17:41:27","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T21:41:27","slug":"snap_polls_show_widening_disconnect_between_the_drive_bys_and_rest_of_us_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/09\/27\/snap_polls_show_widening_disconnect_between_the_drive_bys_and_rest_of_us_\/","title":{"rendered":"Snap Polls Show Widening Disconnect Between the Drive-Bys and Rest of Us"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: I\u2019ve got a bunch of stories in the Stack<\/a> that are the same thing as this sound bite.  This is ABC News Good Morning America, Amy Robach is the news infobabe, the anchorette.  She spoke with a group of undecided voters about last night\u2019s debate, and during the segment, Amy Robach and an unidentified voter had this little exchange.<\/p>\n

ROBACH:  We\u2019ve got our group of undecided voters here behind me so let\u2019s see a show of hands.  How many of you made up your minds who you\u2019re gonna vote for based on last night\u2019s debate?  One, two.  I have to ask, what\u2019s it gonna take to decide?<\/line><\/p>\n

MAN:  Less celebrity, less Kardashian out of Trump. And less Bernie, less liberalism out of Hillary.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  What she was amazed at is the debate didn\u2019t change anybody\u2019s mind.  Remember, now, the Drive-Bys are looking at this as Hillary hitting a grand slam, she took Trump out last night.  They\u2019re hoping largely, and many of them think it actually happened, may take some time to show, but she demonstrated that she is so good at this, he\u2019s a rank amateur and so forth, and they think that he just embarrassed himself.  And I\u2019ve got a couple stories in the Stack, focus groups that thought Trump won. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s only one snap poll that shows Hillary won.  All of the other snap polls, internet polls, professional, whatever, every one of them after the debate last night shows Trump the victor, big time.  Only CNN\u2019s poll shows Hillary a big winner.  And the Drive-Bys can\u2019t figure it out.  Amy Robach here was stunned that only two people changed their minds last night in their focus group at ABC.  I\u2019m telling you, the disconnect is big, and the gap of understanding between the people in Washington, in news media, the New York\/Boston\/Washington corridor and the rest of the country, that gap is widening.  <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Rick in Cedarville, Michigan, you\u2019re next.  Welcome to the program, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER:  Listener since the first Gulf War.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Wow.  Thank you very much.  I appreciate that.<\/p>\n

CALLER:  And I appreciate you.  I really did feel that Donald Trump was playing rope-a-dope with Hillary, that he came out strong.  And really, he doesn\u2019t want to peak too early.  He\u2019s got a couple more debates to go, and I thought during that debate that she was starting to lead with her chin.  I started yelling at the TV saying, “Come on! Get her.”  And he wasn\u2019t taking it.  But I really think that she\u2019s gonna offer it up again, and he\u2019s gonna get stronger as things go on.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Well, you know, it\u2019s interesting.  I don\u2019t know that Trump was playing rope-a-dope.  But I do think the second half of what you said is true.  I do think now that what has transpired here is that Hillary and her supporters out there on the left are getting all cocky now.  You gotta understand, they were in panic mode leading up to the debate.  Hillary had, depending on where you looked, a nine- or 12-point lead coming out of her convention.  It was going so great, that she pulled out of Colorado. <\/line><\/p>\n

Well, now, Colorado\u2019s back in play, and she has pulled out of Ohio.  She suspended her advertising in Ohio.  So they were in Panic City.  Of course Hillary had the medical incidents, the seizures, the near collapse, the coughing spasms, which could erupt at any time in the future.  So last night they think, \u2019cause they\u2019ll listen to the Drive-Bys — it\u2019s an incestuous group of people, and they\u2019re listening to what they say — and she\u2019s gonna conclude that, “Okay, we\u2019re back to normal.  This guy can\u2019t keep up with me.<\/p>\n

“This guy\u2019s a pretender, this guy. Ah, we won this thing going away.”  I don\u2019t think Trump was playing rope-a-dope.  I don\u2019t. I\u2019ll tell you what I think.  I just… When we were told that Trump didn\u2019t rehearse, he didn\u2019t rehearse.  I really don\u2019t think he did.  I don\u2019t think he does.  I don\u2019t think it\u2019s… It\u2019s not who he is.  I don\u2019t think they sat him down and I don\u2019t think they put him in this format, and they rehearsed or replicated anything.  He probably said, “Look, I\u2019ve done these. How many debates did we do in the primaries?  I know what\u2019s happening.”<\/p>\n

So there may be some Trump supporters unhappy that he wasn\u2019t a little bit quicker off the draw with what they think are hanging curveballs that could have been just knocked out of the ballpark.  But you\u2019re right: There are two more debates. Remember the first debate between Romney and Obama? Let\u2019s revisit it for a second.  It\u2019s interesting to note the way the Drive-Bys played it.  The first Romney-Obama debate, there was real concern after that debate that Obama didn\u2019t show up.  <\/p>\n

I mean, he was there, but he was detached. He didn\u2019t look interested in what was going on. Romney was smoking him, and the Drive-Bys were all in atwitter and in a panic after that first debate between Romney and Obama four years ago.  But instead of reflecting that, you know what the Drive-Bys said?  They said, “You know what?  Maybe Obama is smarter than the rest of us, and maybe Obama just decided to look like he\u2019s not taking it seriously because who is this Romney guy anyway? <\/p>\n

“‘This Romney guy doesn\u2019t deserve to be up here with me.  Why should I waste any time preparing?'”  So they gave Obama the excuse that he was smarter than anybody, and he was conveying by his detachment and his lackadaisical attitude, his lack of interest, that he didn\u2019t even think Romney had any business being there — and he, Obama, it was beneath him to even do that. And then, after that, they started talking about how Obama was also brilliant because he came off as authentic. <\/line><\/p>\n

“He wasn\u2019t over-prepared; he wasn\u2019t prepared at all!  He wasn\u2019t scripted,” and they found every which way they could to praise Obama.  And if you remember, folks, that first debate, it was bad because if you remember and you were a Romney supporter, remember how up you were after that debate? And then remember in the next two debates when Benghazi came up and a couple of other items, Romney didn\u2019t touch them?  Remember how mad you got?  You didn\u2019t think Romney didn\u2019t know it.  You didn\u2019t think Romney was prepared. <\/p>\n

You just figured, “Why the hell isn\u2019t he going there?” and people concluded that Romney thought he did so well in the first debate that the strategy then became to play it safe in the next two.  Basically go into what they call in football the prevent defense.  “Go ahead and let the other team gain whatever ground they want, but don\u2019t give up a score,” and that\u2019s when they thought Romney was doing, and they got mad because he wasn\u2019t taking it seriously, didn\u2019t go in for the kill.<\/p>\n

Now we have somewhat of a reversal of that, and the Drive-Bys are not saying of Trump what they said of Obama.  They\u2019re not finding ways to praise Trump.  They\u2019re not finding ways to find anything positive about Trump.  We knew this is a rigged game.  We knew that the referee is on the side of the Democrats because the referee, whoever the referee is, is a Democrat first and a so-called journalist second.  I mean, we know that Lester Holt did not challenge Hillary once last night. <\/p>\n

He did challenge Trump six or seven times, got him to argue about the Iraq War. Did I not tell you yesterday, too, on this that the Iraq War is one of the most important, biggest deals to these Democrats? I\u2019m sitting there listening to this last night… Can I share this with you? I\u2019m watching Hillary go after Trump by accusing him of supporting the Iraq War, and he didn\u2019t.  Now, as an aside, I thought Trump went just… He got way too much time saying, “Go talk to Neil Cavuto. Go talk to Sean Hannity. Nobody called Hannity!”<\/p>\n

That\u2019s when I think he really he was on the defensive and not attacking, and he just wouldn\u2019t drop it.  But, see, even in that circumstance, knowing Trump as I do, he is a winner, he thinks of himself as a winner, and if somebody\u2019s gonna lie about him, he is going to hit back until he thinks he\u2019s fixed it.  He\u2019s not gonna put up with it, and that\u2019s what he was doing last night.  She was lying about him; he didn\u2019t support the Iraq War.  But, anyway, the real point was I\u2019m watching this thing and I\u2019m looking at the TV. <\/line> My mouth\u2019s wide open, “What about, ‘You voted for it, Mrs. Clinton\u2019?”  Trump wasn\u2019t even in public life back in 2002-2003.  There was nothing Trump could have done one way or the other no matter what he thought about it.  “You voted for it.”  I don\u2019t know why Trump didn\u2019t say that.  You know, I think he was too busy focusing on himself.  He\u2019s got to find a way to take a little bit less of this personally.  But regardless, she voted for it.  That\u2019s the main reason that she had an opponent in the primaries. <\/line><\/p>\n

The two reasons that Bernie Sanders gave her fits was the Iraq War and her association with Wall Street.  Wall Street owns Hillary Clinton.  Wall Street has bought Hillary Clinton and whatever policy considerations she can give them if she gets elected.  They have bought her already.  That\u2019s what all the speech income is really all about.  And she sits up there running against Wall Street, as though she\u2019s trying to convince her supporters that the big banks are evil, and she knows it.  Then she went on the…<\/p>\n

What caused the economic collapse 2008? It was the subprime mortgage crisis.  Trump didn\u2019t mention that.  I mean, there are, like I say, two or three examples where he just had a… If you don\u2019t like “hanging curveball,” he had a giant softball.  He could swat a beach ball thrown his way. He could have swatted it out of there. But that was then, and this is now.  But I just… I know what these people are gonna do and how they\u2019re gonna do it, and Trump ought to, too.  He ought to know Lester\u2019s gonna be biased; he ought to know Lester\u2019s gonna argue with him, or whoever the debate moderator is next time. <\/p>\n

With possible exception of Chris Wallace, who\u2019s going to moderate one of these things.  But other than that, it\u2019s gonna be what we got last night.  Anyway, there are two more of these things.  And as was demonstrated back in 2012, Obama was thought to be in big trouble after that first debate, and he wasn\u2019t, was he?  That first debate didn\u2019t end up hurting Barack Obama at all, did it?  I know he had incumbancy on his side, but still.  He was horrible that first debate.  It didn\u2019t matter because there were two more, and there are two more here.  <\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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