WalterSobchak
10-02-2012, 04:29 PM
Interesting read regarding the conspiracy theory that El Rushbo, Dick Morris and the other right wing talk radio fuckheads feed to their fans about this vast polling conspiracy.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/81845.html
Here's a little snippet from the article.
“I believe if the election were held today, Romney would win by 4 or 5 points,” trumpeted Dick Morris on Fox News last week, predicting a win for the GOP ticket in Florida, Ohio, Virginia, Nevada and Pennsylvania. In public polls right now, Romney is losing in each of those states (http://www.politico.com/2012-election/swing-state/). But, Morris said, that’s because the data are all wrong.
“People need to understand that the polling this year is the worst it has ever been,” said the onetime Clinton svengali turned conservative pundit.
Conservative talk radio king Rush Limbaugh (http://www.politico.com/p/pages/rush-limbaugh) senses something more nefarious in the media and university polls.
“They are designed to do exactly what I have warned you to be vigilant about and that is to depress you and suppress your vote,” Limbaugh told his listeners last week, after bringing up swing-state surveys from The Washington Post and CBS News and Quinnipiac University. “These two polls today are designed to convince everybody this election is over.”
There has always been a divide between the Republican consultant class and conservative media figures. Operatives must dwell in the real world because their jobs depend on winning and losing. The likes of Morris and Limbaugh have different incentives. They want to build their email lists and listening audiences and there’s no faster way to conservative hearts than to kick the dreaded mainstream media. And when it’s well after Labor Day of a presidential year and the Republican nominee isn’t faring well, reassuring the home team that there’s just a scoreboard malfunction offers a seeming dose of logic to the situation.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/81845.html
Here's a little snippet from the article.
“I believe if the election were held today, Romney would win by 4 or 5 points,” trumpeted Dick Morris on Fox News last week, predicting a win for the GOP ticket in Florida, Ohio, Virginia, Nevada and Pennsylvania. In public polls right now, Romney is losing in each of those states (http://www.politico.com/2012-election/swing-state/). But, Morris said, that’s because the data are all wrong.
“People need to understand that the polling this year is the worst it has ever been,” said the onetime Clinton svengali turned conservative pundit.
Conservative talk radio king Rush Limbaugh (http://www.politico.com/p/pages/rush-limbaugh) senses something more nefarious in the media and university polls.
“They are designed to do exactly what I have warned you to be vigilant about and that is to depress you and suppress your vote,” Limbaugh told his listeners last week, after bringing up swing-state surveys from The Washington Post and CBS News and Quinnipiac University. “These two polls today are designed to convince everybody this election is over.”
There has always been a divide between the Republican consultant class and conservative media figures. Operatives must dwell in the real world because their jobs depend on winning and losing. The likes of Morris and Limbaugh have different incentives. They want to build their email lists and listening audiences and there’s no faster way to conservative hearts than to kick the dreaded mainstream media. And when it’s well after Labor Day of a presidential year and the Republican nominee isn’t faring well, reassuring the home team that there’s just a scoreboard malfunction offers a seeming dose of logic to the situation.