Posted on 09/26/2016 11:27:26 AM PDT by Kaslin
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RUSH: The polls have tightened, I know that, anybody knows that, anybody following this. In fact, there's a story out there describing all of this, and the headline is, "Presidential Race Now a Dead Heat." That's not what the headline ought to be. The headline ought to be "Trump Surges in Polls as Hillary's Huge Lead Fails," because that's the story.
The story is not that they're in a dead heat. The story is that Hillary is fading and plummeting. Hillary had a huge lead coming out of her convention and it is gone. Depending on the poll, she's still up two, down two, margin of error. I think there's one poll that has her up four. But it's a dead heat. And the battleground states are also dead heats. I've got a sound bite here about Hillary and Ohio that makes it look like they may be thinking they've lost Ohio. I've gotta double-check that. I just had a scant moment to peruse this before the program began, and I'm still studying what I've got in the audio sound bite roster.
But man, oh, man, the peer pressure on poor Lester Holt here. And you know Lester Holt would not have this job if it weren't for Brian Williams getting caught making things up. That's why Lester even has this gig. Every news network is demanding that he fact check Donald Trump on his lies, which is practically, they say, every time he opens his mouth. Here's a Breitbart story: "Activists Petition Lester Holt to Challenge Trump, Fact-Check Debate." They are really worried going into this thing, folks.
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RUSH: Yeah, grab audio sound bite number seven. It's what I was referring to right before the break. We have an audio sound bite here from Jeff Zeleny, formally of the New York Times. He's now CNN senior Washington correspondent, and this was on Sunday's Inside Politics show. John King's talking to him about the state of Ohio and the Hillary campaign. Tell me what you think of this.
ZELENY: So long Ohio. It's been 20 days since Hillary Clinton stepped foot into this classic battleground state, and she's not expected to visit it again in the month of September. That is a nod to the political reality there facing her campaign. She is struggling mightily among white voters, and the campaign has not yet written it off and they will push back and say we're still spending money there, et cetera. But Ohio, the mother of all battleground states, is not in her wheelhouse anymore. For Democrats in Ohio --
RUSH: Are you kidding me?
ZELENY: -- who are hoping to see her again. She's not been there since Labor Day and not coming back.
KING: Wow, I mean --
ZELENY: Unbelievable.
KING: -- you think of it as the big middle of the country, big battleground state.
RUSH: Are you kidding me? The Hillary campaign's writing off Ohio? Let me tell you about Ohio. There's one stat you need to know about Ohio if you believe stats, and that is Republicans do not win the White House if they don't win Ohio. Another way of putting it that's less confusing without all the double negatives: In order for the Republican historically, statistically, to win the White House, he or she has to win Ohio. And now Hillary's pulling up stakes and getting out of there, suffering the white vote?
You know, I saw a spread the other day in a poll breakdown, maybe it was a survey, but get this. Among white males who did not go to college, Donald Trump is plus 59. He is 59 points ahead of Hillary with white men that didn't go to college. Mitt Romney won that group by 31. Romney was plus 31 over Obama in that category.
Now, before you start going nuts, "Well, Rush, who wants that group? That's a bunch of --" no, no, no, no, do not think that, folks. White men who don't go to college is an increasing phenomenon because of the chickification of universities. Male enrollment at institutions of higher learning has been trending down for a long time now, for a host of reasons. If these people turn around and vote -- don't doubt for a moment the Hillary campaign's scared to death of this number. And this Jeff Zeleny guy just mentioned it by the fact that Hillary is losing the white vote.
The white female vote she's holding onto. That would basically be the pro-choice vote, for all intents and purposes. But she is struggling mightily among white voters, quote, unquote, Jeff Zeleny. Not just white male voters who didn't go to college, but white voters, period. I don't care what you think or what you've heard, they are still the majority of voters when you add men and women and the other demographics to it.
Pulling out of Ohio? Colorado they thought they had in the bag, and they pulled out of Ohio a couple of months ago or a month ago, and now Trump is pulled even in Ohio.
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Not going to stop Trump from revisiting the state a few more times before the election.
What about all the dead and invalid voters the court just refused to allow Ohio to remove?
Hillary is way too busy practicing her Standing Skills
Oh, no, no, no, O-hi-oh.
This is just stunning!!!!!
The whole 2 years is stunning.
I know i brag repeatedly about working down the block from him and meeting him twice (even though it was a “nice to meet you” both times :), but i dont have much in life so give me this :)
But now I REALLY admire him. He’s SO positive and he’s said some wacky things but he’s from NYC, that’s to be expected :)
I didn’t think he had it in him to do all this.
I’m proud as an American, and, which I RARELY get to say, as a NYC folk.
This might be the 6th time I’ve seen this posted. I don’t buy this for a minute. Even though Strickland is an awful candidate and will hold her down, she has tons of money, as do her SuperPacs... It’s too important to her, and Trump isn’t leading by nearly enough to write it off. IMHO
Is her not campaigning in Ohio a sign that she knows it’s wasted time and money....OR....the voter fraud is so entrenched and she doesn’t have to worry about it, because she knows she’s gonna walk away with it?
I think she’s going to bet the farm on Florida.
Has anyone noticed that when listening on the web, Rush no longer has parodies playing during commercial breaks but has low key jazz. I wonder if he and Paul Shanklin had a falling out?
While I am not one to urinate on anyone’s footwear, it is a possibility that Herself is skipping Ohio because she has been assured that she will win the state ... or to state it another way, it is not who votes that count, it is who counts the votes.
Scott Adams (Dilbert cartoonist) has said the same thing. Adams explains that he grew up in New York, and that Trump is exactly as he expects.
Adams also says that he has to personally remember that he can't act like a New Yorker in California, because it will offend people.
I'm not from New York, but I've worked there. It really is different -- people don't give a second thought to being confrontational over something, then going out for a beer afterwards and laughing about it.
If you grew up in the Midwest or the South, you would probably be horrified by that kind of behavior.
Exact question that should be asked! I don’t buy she’s giving up Ohio for a microsecond.
You know, dp, I was just saying the other day how I liked and admired Trump when he got in the race, but lately, I’ve really come to love this man. He has my utmost respect.
We’re exactly what you said.
Have a BRUTAL political argument at work, then go out for beers.
if someone doesn’t get back to me in email after a while I send them one saying “what am I, a ####ing mirage” lol
On top of being a NYer, i’ve got screws loose but I think southerners would get a kick out of me :)
Would live there if i didn’t hate the heat and LOVE the fall.
It’s health. She cannot campaign except once every 3 or 4 days, so he has to go to the statistically even states, and Ohio is not Trump’s outside the margin of error.
Pickles does better when no one sees her.
Her lack of stamina and probable health problems keeps her from effectively campaigning.
Her handlers have run the numbers on the graveyard and illegal vote and feel they can safely use her limited health elsewhere.
Quite a pickle for Pickles.
Skipping out on Ohio??? When was the last time Ohio was not a battleground state up for grabs???
2012 50.7% for Obama
2008 51.4% for Obama
2004 50.8% for Bush
2000 50.0% for Bush
1996 46.5% for Clinton
1992 40.2% for Clinton
answer 1988
1988 55% for Bush
1984 59% for Reagan
1980 51% for Reagan
1976 48.9% for Carter
1972 60% for Nixon
1968 45.2% for Nixon
1964 62.9% for Johnson
1960 53.3% for Nixon
WANT to believe Cankles is giving up on Ohio, but it doesn’t make sense.
Baloney!
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