Rush Limbaugh-"Media Reports Poll Tightening As CYA,But the Gap Was Never Really That Big"

"Why even put that question, "You think Bush saying he's going to keep Rumsfeld will affect your vote?" I refuse to believe that when people walk into the polling place tomorrow they're going to be voting for or against Rumsfeld as secretary of defense. This is wishful thinking. This is exactly what I've been talking about, how these people are attempting to create news and attitudes and opinions by the use of polls. Now, Ed Morrissey at Captain's Quarters, which is the name of his blog, has taken a look inside the Pew poll internals. "The internals," he writes, "deliver even more bad news to the Democrats, as significant leads in several demographic categories have been cut drastically or wiped out entirely. The last Pew poll was in early October. In the following month, the Democrats have lost nonminorities altogether." That would mean whites, for those of you in Rio Linda. "The gap among all whites went from plus five Democrats to plus five GOP in a month. That's a ten-point swing. White females had supported Democrats by a 15-point margin, majority of 55 to 40 but now give the GOP a two-point lead in less than a month. The Democrats have also lost the middle class, a big problem for them in this election." ....


"All right, the theme of the Pew poll, ladies and gentlemen-- I mean, when you read this, when you read the internals, it's inescapable. The Democrat gains in this election cycle demographically are gone in this poll. The Republican Party's rolled back the Democrat intrusion onto Republican demographics, and it leaves the field, if you go back and look at previous polls in previous election years, you almost see the similar same results that we had in these polls, anyway, in 2002 and 2004. Ed Morrissey is one of a few beginning to flex their muscles out there, saying that this election may hold some very unpleasant surprises for the Democrats in the House races if these numbers hold up or continue to erode over the next 40 hours. Then there's the ABC News/Washington Post poll. What happened? They had a generic ballot lead, the Democrats, of anywhere from 11 to 15%, but now the new Post/ABC News poll shows only a 6% lead for the Democrats. It was 14% in the last poll. "

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