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RUSH: Now, ladies and gentlemen, there\u2019s an AP poll <\/a>out today, and this is the most amazing poll. It is an AP-GfK poll. And the headline is this: “Most Expect GOP Victory in November,” but they will cringe voting for it, meaning the Republican Party. <\/p>\n

“Two weeks before Election Day, most of the nation\u2019s likely voters now expect the Republican Party to take control of the US Senate, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll. And by a growing margin, they say that\u2019s the outcome they\u2019d like to see. But the survey suggests many will cringe when they cast those ballots. Most likely voters have a negative impression of the Republican Party, and 7 in 10 are dissatisfied by its leaders in Congress.” Well, thank God the AP managed to work that in! Of course, 60 years of vilification by the news media wouldn\u2019t have anything to do with what people think of the Republican Party now, would it? <\/p>\n

Sixty years of smears, 60 years of vile lies, distortions, and smears, wouldn\u2019t have anything to do with what people think? But let me ask a question. Most expect the GOP to — by the way, let me tell you something else. The New York Times has a story today about the Democrat Party and panic, and I think that that is because it\u2019s looking even worse than anybody publicly is willing to state. This AP poll today, there was one back in September, very same poll. And it said back in September — this is only October, folks. This has been four or five weeks since the last poll. The AP poll in September said that both parties were neck and neck. Now it says the Republicans are up by 8%. <\/line><\/p>\n

Back in September, the AP claimed that women favored Democrats over recommends by 7%. Now the Republicans are up by 2%. That\u2019s a shift of 9%, in less than a month. So we\u2019re supposed to believe that there has been a gigantic shift toward the Republican Party just since September, but, while this shift has happened, the people who made it possible resent it. They resent themselves. They\u2019re gonna vote Republican, but they don\u2019t want to. They\u2019re gonna vote Republican, but they\u2019re gonna cringe when they pull the lever. They\u2019re gonna vote Republican, but they hate the Republicans. They\u2019re gonna vote Republican, are gonna vote against the Democrats, but, oh, man, they\u2019re not gonna like what they do at all. And just a month ago, this wasn\u2019t even gonna happen. <\/p>\n

A month ago, the Democrats were gonna win, were gonna hold even, might hold the Senate, might even pick up some seats here and there, and they certainly still had the edge in women. Now four weeks later and a total reversal. And the people responsible for the total reversal, the voters, are mad that they have reversed. A month ago they were happy. They loved the Democrats. They thought the Democrats were much better for women than the Republicans. And now in four weeks something\u2019s happened, and they\u2019ve totally changed their minds and they\u2019ve changed their preferences, but, boy, are they mad at themselves. I mean, there\u2019s some self-loathing going out there. They must really hate themselves. These people are going to cringe as they vote for Republicans. It must mean they really hate the Democrats. <\/line><\/p>\n

What has happened in these past four weeks to cause this? You know what I think is more likely? I think it\u2019s more likely we\u2019re just seeing what we see almost every election year. As we get closer to actual Election Day, the polls get a little more realistic because the pollsters start thinking about their credibility. So a poll a month ago, a poll in August, a poll three months ago could be used entirely to shape public opinion and advance, say, the Democrat Party agenda rather than reflect public opinion. And I have no doubt this happens. None. Zip, zero, nada. Shifts in public opinion don\u2019t happen this way. <\/p>\n

So what\u2019s obviously happening here as we\u2019re getting closer to the actual of the election, the polls are starting to reflect more and more the reality of the situation. By this time the pollsters have done as much as they can to boost Democrat donations. They\u2019ve done as much as they can to boost Democrat turnout. Now they have to try to salvage some credibility by showing that their polls were accurate after the election. But I\u2019m still struck by this whole premise. “Two weeks before Election Day, most of the nation\u2019s likely voters now expect the Republican Party to take control of the US Senate, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll. And by a growing margin, they say that\u2019s the outcome they\u2019d like to see.”<\/p>\n

Okay, that denotes happy people, to a certain extent. Most of the nation\u2019s likely voters expect the Republican Party to win the Senate, and most say that\u2019s what they want to see. But the next sentence: “But the survey suggests many will cringe when they cast those ballots.” They want the Republicans to win, they\u2019re gonna vote for the Republicans, and they\u2019re gonna hate themselves in the morning. It\u2019s just amazing the way people who vote Republican are characterized, is it not? Self-loathing, confused, snarky, mean-spirited extremists. <\/p>\n

And then if you read a little further in this excuse for a story, you find this. “The Democrats win few accolades themselves.” Oh. You mean voters cringe when they vote Democrat, too? You mean there might be some unhappiness with the Democrats? You mean that\u2019s why a majority of the people want the Republicans to control the Senate and are going to vote that way because Democrats win few accolades themselves? Apparently so. “Impressions of the party among likely voters have grown more negative in the past month.” Why? What\u2019s happened in the past month? What\u2019s so much different in the past month than the past six years? <\/p>\n

Well, some things maybe. Obamacare. Maybe ISIS. Maybe Ebola. Maybe jobs. But all of this has been happening to one degree or another. I mean, we weren\u2019t in utopia four weeks ago and all of a sudden have somehow ended up in hell. Nothing really starkly bad has gone on. It\u2019s just continued to get worse day in and day out. In fact, do you know what the AP loves to report here? In this very poll, remember, now, most likely voters are gonna vote Republican because they want the Republicans to control the Senate, and then this. “In fact, Democrats are more trusted than the GOP on just two of nine top issues, the poll showed.”<\/line><\/p>\n

I wonder what those issues are. Gay rights, climate change, income inequality, really important stuff? I mean, what is it? “The economy remains the top issue for likely voters — 91 percent call it ‘extremely\u2019 or ‘very\u2019 important. And the GOP has increased its advantage as the party more trusted to handle the issue to a margin of 39 percent to 31 percent.” So the economy\u2019s big. Women have moved in the Republicans\u2019 direction since September, the last AP poll.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m telling you, folks, nothing\u2019s happened other than the pollster is changing his objective. A month ago, two months ago, three months ago, the objective was to shape public opinion, to try to engender donations to the Democrats, voter registration for the Democrats. They\u2019ve done all that they can. Now we\u2019re getting close. Now they\u2019ve gotta start getting real so that they have credibility when their poll is looked at after the election.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: One more little tidbit from this poll. The Democrats are actually cringing more than the Republicans are. Forty percent of Republicans in this silly poll, 40% say that they\u2019re excited to vote for their guy. Thirty-two percent of Democrat voters say they\u2019re excited to vote for their guy. So we are looking at Democrats cringing even more than people voting for Republicans. Have you ever heard of anything like this? Have you ever heard anything reported like this? People, likely voters, want the Republicans to win the Senate. They expect it to happen, and they\u2019re going to vote for it, and they\u2019re gonna cringe when they do it, even though they\u2019re doing what they want to do. <\/p>\n

And the impression clearly left, that for some reason people would really like to vote Democrat, but they just can\u2019t. It\u2019s mind-boggling. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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