{"id":335595,"date":"2020-02-03T16:02:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T21:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=335595"},"modified":"2020-02-07T16:21:57","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T21:21:57","slug":"why-did-the-des-moines-register-spike-the-final-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/02\/03\/why-did-the-des-moines-register-spike-the-final-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyone Wants to Know Why the Des Moines Register Spiked Their Final Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: The Des Moines Register poll that was suspended, and I want to get back to it \u2019cause I don\u2019t like to leave open loops<\/a>. The reason this poll was suspended was because, believe it or not, somebody claims that they used an incorrect font size on a Web page, and that resulted in one name — a candidate\u2019s name — not being seen by one respondent.<\/p>\n

So one respondent was not permitted to vote for whoever. Because the one name, Buttigieg, didn\u2019t appear. The respondent tells the people of the poll and they cut the whole thing down. They just cancel it. A single Mayor Pete supporter claims that Mayor Pete\u2019s name wasn\u2019t an option during a phone poll. Now CNN\u2019s refusing to release the poll result, and everybody\u2019s wondering what the real reason is, and most of the speculation…<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve always known how important polling data is. I remember one time I had dinner with… This is like 1992 or \u201993. I had dinner with Tim Russert and his wife, and the moment he arrived, all he was talking about was polls, the latest NBC polls and what it was showing about Perot and George H. W. Bush. I said, “Tim, it\u2019s just polls.” But no, it\u2019s not just polls to these people. To the political class in Washington, polling data is gospel.<\/p>\n

Some of them believe it is totally legit and up and up and reflective of public opinion. Others are fully aware that it can be used to make public opinion, to shape it, manipulate it and so forth, which is what I think it\u2019s become. Polling has become a vehicle for creating breaking news — and most of it\u2019s useless. Most of it\u2019s irrelevant. Like, you can\u2019t remember today — 2016, February 3rd — what the polls back then were.<\/p>\n

Nobody can. You\u2019d have to go look \u2019em up. It\u2019s relevant for fundraising and things of the moment, but in terms of actually telling you the outcome of an election 10 months down the road, not much. But this Des Moines Register poll is the poll of polls in the Hawkeye Cauci, and it always comes out Saturday night, the Sunday night beforehand. And when they held it, when they spiked it, why, it was like communion being canceled.<\/p>\n

People were panicked. They didn\u2019t know what to do. So they started speculating. “Why did they cancel it?” And you know what? The speculation mostly centered on, “Well, maybe the poll didn\u2019t show the results they wanted.” Now, wait a minute. I thought that shouldn\u2019t matter. Who wanted? In the media world they want us to believe, they don\u2019t care what the outcome is.<\/p>\n

They don\u2019t care what the poll shows; they just release it. It\u2019s the news. But we all know that\u2019s bogus. We all know they have a vested interest in the outcome of the polls, and we all know how they shape them with various percentages of Democrat respondents versus Republicans versus independents versus Martians. You know, whatever they want, they can get.<\/p>\n

Now, this is a poll done with the Des Moines Register, which is the paper of the Hawkeye Cauci. The Des Moines Register lives and breathes and exists for the Iowa caucuses once every four years. It\u2019s like a restaurant in a town that\u2019s only open for four months in the winter. They stay open the other eight months, but they have to make enough money in the four months of the winter to keep themselves open the rest of the year.<\/p>\n

Same thing here. They live and die for the Hawkeye Cauci. And not releasing the poll was a major, major upset. \u201cThe Des Moines Register, CNN and Selzer & Co. have made the decision to not release the final installment. \u2026 Nothing is more important to the Register and its polling partners than the integrity of the Iowa Poll. Today, a respondent raised an issue with the way the survey was administered, which could have compromised the results of the poll. It appears a candidate\u2019s name was omitted in at least one interview in which the respondent was asked to name their preferred candidate.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, you might be saying, \u201cWell, what\u2019s this got to do with font size?\u201d Well, you\u2019ve got the person conducting the poll. They\u2019re on their computer. Maybe they\u2019re running their website at 110 or 125 percent of normal size. In other words, it zoomed in, and maybe the last name on the list you don\u2019t see unless you scroll because of the zoom-in or enlargement.<\/p>\n

This was the original explanation, that the person conducting this particular poll, making this call to this one respondent was listing the names, \u201cOkay, who do you prefer to win the Hawkeye Cauci?\u201d List the names but didn\u2019t mention Mayor Pete \u2019cause this person didn\u2019t see Mayor Pete\u2019s name on the computer because it was too zoomed in. If the person had scrolled up, they would have seen Mayor Pete\u2019s name. Anyway, the respondent supposedly got hold of the polling unit, the paper, and said, “Hey, I was just polled, but they didn\u2019t read Mayor Pete\u2019s name.”<\/p>\n

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So this one instance is why, supposedly, they canceled the release of the whole poll. And a lot of people said, “Come on. That\u2019s not enough to cancel the whole thing. What was really going on?” And the speculation is that Crazy Bernie was mopping the floor with everybody. That Crazy Bernie was up by seven to 10 points, and nobody wants that, supposedly, because Crazy Bernie is going to destroy the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n

If Crazy Bernie\u2019s gonna destroy the Democrat Party, then Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the rest of her Squad are gonna destroy the Democrat Party, and why is nobody trying to stop her? Well, maybe they are, but they\u2019re not having much success at it. The idea — and I don\u2019t mean to be redundant here — but the idea that the Democrat Party is some moderate, mainstream bunch of dryballs is a bunch of garbage on a San Francisco street.<\/p>\n

This party is as radical left as it has ever been, and it\u2019s been radical left for a long time. They\u2019ve just masked it and covered it up. You know, Crazy Bernie and AOC is the beginning of the unmasking. Now these people running around, \u201cOh, Crazy Bernie is gonna take the party down.\u201d All they\u2019re admitting is that if somebody actually fully opens up about what \u2013 \u2018cause you can\u2019t find any difference in Elizabeth Warren and Crazy Bernie\u2019s policies. Or any of these other people.<\/p>\n

“Well, Rush, they\u2019re not all for Medicare for All.” Yes, they are. When you get right down to it, they\u2019re for government running everything, folks. I don\u2019t care the degree. Do not fall for the idea that Democrats have some kind of free market wing in there. Every damn Democrat can\u2019t wait to cancel these tax cuts. Every damn Democrat can\u2019t wait to cancel the policies that have resulted in rising wages. That\u2019s the bottom line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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