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Oct. 22, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 22, 2008, Wednesday, Hour #3
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And just as predicted, ladies and gentlemen, the polls are starting to tighten.
AP.
4443 Obama, dead heat.
But rush, but rush, Zogby's at 10.
They've been bouncing all over the place on Zogby.
But the CBS New York Times poll has Obama at 13.
I know, but that's CBS in the New York Times.
A lot of us if we got the battleground poll at one point, we got AP at one point.
And contrary to other polls, some of which show Obama ahead by double digits, the IBD tip poll.
Investors Business Daily shows a sudden tightening of Obama's lead to 3.7 from 6.0.
McCain has picked up three points in the West and with independents, married women, and those with some college.
He's also gaining momentum in the suburbs, where he's gone from dead even a week ago to a 20-point lead in American suburbs.
Obama padded gains in urban areas and with lower-class households, but he slipped four points with parents.
Slip four points with parents.
Now this uh some of this, I think, some of this tightening is a backlash to the Colin Powell endorsement.
All the drive-by-oh, well, that's it.
Colin Powell and Dorothy puts Obama over the top.
That's it.
That's the most distinguished endorsement.
I think just the opposite.
I think the Powell endorsement uh indicates that uh that's a racial endorsement.
It's uh based on, you know, race, not racism, based on race.
Uh, and there are a number of other factors.
You can't ignore all the excitement of the large crowds that Palin has generated wherever she's gone.
Uh the drive-by's trying to to put out news saying that McCain's giving up in Colorado when he's not the very day that Palin drew record crowds in Grand Junction, Colorado.
Uh Chuck Schumer out there, oh, yeah, it's going to be a landslide.
All the Democrats talking about it's going to be a landslide, but man, they're not acting like it.
They're having to cheat with Acorn.
Their media is having to lie and cheat.
Their media, all of their all of their support groups are doing everything they can to portray this as uh as uh as a landslide, yet they're acting like it's gonna be close.
And it is going to be close.
Snerdley said to me during the top of the hour break.
By the way, welcome back at Rush Limbaugh program 800-282-2882.
See, we get straight to it on this program.
We don't monkey around for two or three minutes.
You ever tuned into a football game?
Or a golf match.
You say I want to watch the U.S. Open.
So I tune into the network doing the U.S. Open.
I gotta watch five minutes of highlights.
I'm there to watch golf.
I don't want to watch highlights, I want to watch golf.
Sometimes I turned on Monday night football at 8.30, hoping to get the Patriots and the Broncos.
And at 840, I'm still looking at these three goons in the booth blabbering on about nothing.
Players standing around on the field waiting for the rep to say go.
We're waiting on the announcers to finish blabbering.
This program gets right to it.
What's gonna happen, Snerdly said to me, you know, these people, this audience are gonna need you more than ever if McCain loses.
He said, don't worry.
Because, folks, let me tell you what's happening, whether McCain wins or loses.
We are going to rebuild the conservative movement.
We would not be in this predicament were it not for the fact that a bunch of wayward conservatives lost their way...
And started at a bunch of Republicans who got focused on the wrong way to win elections.
We're gonna have to the salvation if McCain wins or loses, it's rebuild the conservative movement.
That's the focus, and that's gonna be an upbeat positive thing.
It's gonna be an interactive thing.
Uh it's what happened in 1994.
You know, Clinton wins 93.
We rebuilt the conservative movement, won the house.
Two years later.
First time in 40 years.
Don't panic.
Let me show you what the Democrats are planning.
This actually gives voice to it.
Jeff Bingaman yesterday in Albuquerque on our affiliate, the EIB affiliate KKOB.
This is during the Jim Villanucci show.
Villanucci talking to Senator Bingaman.
Villanucci says, talk radio listeners are concerned about the fairness doctrine.
Do you think there will be a push to reinstate the fairness doctrine?
I don't know.
I certainly hope so.
I would want this station and all stations to have to present a balanced perspective and different points of view instead of always hammering away at one side.
Now, Mike, talking here to the broadcast engineer, start stop in this next bite, so be standing by.
Jim Villanucci then says, Well, in this market, Senator Bingham, for example, Bingaman, you've got KKOB, got us.
If you want liberal talk, you got Air America down the street.
You've got National Public Radio.
If you have satellite radio, there's a lefty talk station there, there's a righty talk station.
I mean, do you think that there are people who aren't able to find a viewpoint that's in sync with what they believe?
My thought is that uh radio and media generally should have a higher calling than just a reflect uh a particular point of view.
I think they should use their authority to try to and their broadcast power to present an informed discussion of public issues.
You know, KKOB used to be uh used to live under the fairness doctrine.
Every broadcast outlets.
Yeah, we played music, I believe.
Well, but there was a lot of talk also, at least it seemed to me.
Stop the tape.
Before the fairness doctrine was lifted by Ronaldus Magnus in the late eighties, I think it was 1987.
Do you know how many radio stations were doing talk, Senator Binghaman?
One hundred and twenty-five.
And you know what was on those stations?
I mean, sometimes from midnight to six you'd get the wild wackos, the uh the the prov provocational political people, but most of the time it was the correct carrot cake recipe for the holidays.
Uh where the next traffic problem was going to be in town.
Then you'd have a little segment of your dog was lost, you could call the station and do the lost animal reports.
All this wonderful stuff that nobody wanted to listen to, Senator.
One hundred and twenty-five talk stations.
Senator Bingham, do you know how many talk radio stations there are in America today?
Try over two thousand since the fairness doctrine was lifted.
And on those two thousand radio stations are countless points of view.
From the extreme communist left to the wacko of whatever it is way out in the fringe right.
They're all over the place.
What Bingham's saying here is, well, it's not that.
We want every station to be balanced.
What he wants is for this kind of programming to be stopped.
Because the way the fairness doctrine worked and will work, especially the way it'll work if it's ever reinstituted, re-implemented.
Uh, within five minutes of my show open, fifteen or more extremist groups in every city carrying this program will call the station carrying this show, demanding a response to the outrageous thing that I had just said.
And then after the next ten minutes, they would call again.
And after the after an hour, the management of the local station would probably have received over 150 phone calls demanding a chance and an opportunity to reply.
At which point the manager says, I can't keep up with this.
In order to maintain my license, I'm gonna have to do all this and grant all these people all this access.
I gotta put amateurs on the radio, I gotta put talentless complaining whiners on the radio.
I'm not gonna mess with it.
They and that's how it works.
It's not that the fairness doctrine is passed and all of us go away.
It's that local stations will not put up with the grief they're gonna be put up with or that they're gonna get.
And that's what Senator Binghamman and that's what the Democrats.
They don't want balanced programming on a radio station.
They want no conservative programming on a radio station.
And he sounds all concerned and educated here, but make no mistake.
Here's the rest of his bite.
Yeah.
And there were a lot of talk stations that uh seemed to do fine.
For many, many years, we operated under a fairness doctrine in this country.
I think the country was well served.
Stop the tape.
A hundred and twenty-five radio stations talking about carrot cake recipes for the holiday.
Hell, I'll tell you a little story.
I got to Sacramento in 1984, then my first real big break to do talk show, and the fairness doctrine was in force.
And I got to town.
It's October of 84.
We're a month, maybe, maybe three weeks from the election, the Mondal and Reagan re-election.
So I get into town early.
I'm driving around, I'm listening to the other talk stations.
There's another talk station.
I'm listening to the market, trying to figure it out.
And I can't believe nobody was talking about the election.
Nobody was talking about it.
Now the morning news guys, you know, the latest news the election is, latest poll shows Ronald Reagan down 50 points to Waldermondale.
Three weeks from all that kind of garbage is going on, but nobody was talking about the election.
Honest to God, folks, it was carrot cake recipes, it was the latest fashion show going on at Neiman Marcus or what have you.
And I said, this is gonna be a gold mine.
Nobody's talking about.
So I got out there, started talking about this stuff.
In fact, Morton Downey Jr. got fired.
That's how I got the job, and he got fired for political comment.
He told a bad joke.
He used a slur word about Chinese people, refused to apologize.
Bam, he's gone.
Then he went on to New York to do that ill-fated big mouth TV show.
And to this day, I still don't know whose mouth is bigger when it's open.
Morton Downey Jr.'s or Susan Estrich's.
I'm just talking about size, not what comes out of it.
But I mean, it was, it was, I remember I said something one day about I forget some issue, and some local community black leader called demanded to come in and respond to what I had said.
Management bent over, grabbed the ankles, oh sure, come on in.
They called me and said, okay, we gotta have this guy in here, and uh so he he came in and I had to give up an hour of my show to this guy.
And I did my best to make it entertaining, but I mean I had to let him speak in order to let him have his access to fairness doctor, it was the most boring damn hour of radio I've ever done.
And that's how this stuff works.
So Bingaman doesn't know what the hell he's talking about in terms 125 radio.
Well, maybe he does know exactly what he's talking about when you get down to it because he wants all of this kind of conservative talk because it's effective, shut down.
He says, I think the country was was well served.
And then here's how he ended it.
I think the public discussion was at a higher level and more intelligent in those days than it has become since.
Man, would I have loved to ask him for examples of that?
And by the way, even with the fairness doctrine, NPR is going to be there all day, all the time, and all liberal.
So, and conservatives aren't going to complain at the Air America station because conservatives are smart enough to know that even if they get on the air there, nobody will hear what they say.
Okay, we got an audio soundbite from Bill Ayers coming up from April 12th of 2002 on a FM radio station in uh in California.
There's actually, we've got a 40-second bite here.
It's actually a long, long bite that's loaded with all kinds of stuff.
But we have one bite here that'll do it.
But I'm gonna ask you a question.
I mean, you've I'm sure you've heard Bill Ayers mentioned weather underground terrorists blew up the Pentagon.
You know, he um uh Obama and uh Osama bin Laden have one thing in common at least.
They both have friends who bombed the Pentagon.
It's undeniable, it's a fact.
May sound funny to you, it's not to me.
But a lot of people, you know, don't want to take air seriously.
Oh, come on, Russia, 60s guy.
How many of you see Bill Ayers and his ilk is just a bunch of harmless hippies who never grew up?
You know, these harmless little tie-dyed crazy guys living in Volkswagen buses, peace signs painted on them.
You know, Arlo Guthrie Alice's restaurant, we just laugh at him.
You have the image from Forrest Gump when he finds the love of his life, Jenny hanging out with a bunch of long-haired maggot-infested freaks in a van, doing assorted Timothy Leary drugs and flashing peace signs saying make love not war.
You might have even dabbled in that culture yourself back in the 70s.
We all did a little except for me.
I wanted no part of it ever out of this day.
Do not own a pair of blue jeans because of that.
You probably still even have a tie-dyed t-shirt in the attic with a pair of bell bottoms.
Picture yourself with long hair saying never trust anybody over 30.
And now your kids are over 30.
And we got Hannah Hanoi Jane smiling on that anti-aircraft gun while McCain was in the Hanoi Hilton.
And the counterculture.
Oh, that's a good old.
Can we say counterculture?
Is that racist now?
I know we can't say socialist.
That's that's racist.
Now most of us most of us grew out of this stupid.
Well, you, most of you grew out of the stupid garbage.
I never played in it.
But guess what?
Not everybody did.
Ayers and his hardcore ilk, including a young Obama and Michelle My Bell simply went incognito and underground.
By the way, uh we're next week we're gonna play an interview.
I've never done this.
We interviewed Stanley Kurtz, I did of uh National Review Online, the Ethics of Public Policy Center.
Uh he's done the job the drive-by's used to do on people looking into Barack Obama, and he said, we're gonna play parts of that interview next week in advance of the issue in which it'll appear coming out.
Some people say, how can you cannibalize yourself?
It's important.
And one of the things he said that I was not fully aware of, I've been under the impression that Obama arrived in Chicago a little innocent waf, had some ideas about what he wanted to do, but somehow was discovered by all these leftist radicals when in fact it's the other way around.
Obama arrived in Chicago as a radical ideologue and set out finding the people he needed to find and get to know to move his agenda and vision forward.
It was Obama who found Ayres.
Now it may well be that Ayers got his career going by hosting a fundraiser in his house, but it was Obama who found these people.
It was Obama who found Jeremiah Wright.
Obama's not the innocent little guy who's been corrupted by these leftist radicals.
He is one of them.
And you will hear it all as Stanley Kurtz explains it brilliantly.
We get into this next hour.
A lot of these radicals have blended and modified their outward appearance so that they go unseen, but they held fast to their radical views, unadulterated socialism, the overthrow of capitalism.
Now remember, journalists and academics live in a world of zero quantitative measurement.
They spend their days contemplating their navels, resenting the achievers.
They teach each other this.
It's a mantra, they keep saying to themselves.
Bill Ayers is as radical as he ever was.
Obama, I don't care if he says he was only eight when Ayers did this stuff, he's known Ayers all of his life.
He shared an office with Bill Ayers and Acorn, I think, for three years.
Do you think sharing an address they might have run into each other in three years?
So here's the Ayers soundbite.
The audio's not all that hot, but you'll be able to hear it.
Now keep in mind, seven days later, after this, Ayers appeared with Obama on a panel.
I considered myself partly an anarchist then.
I consider myself partly an anarchist now.
I mean, I'm a anarchist playing a bunch of um, you know, I I find a lot of the ideas in anarchism, you know, appealing.
And I'm very open about what I think, and nobody here is surprised by what I think.
You know, we want to do the group with the religious fundamentalism of the uh of the um could use equally troubling in one of those regret that I took extreme majors against the United States at a time of tremendous crisis.
No, it is not that I don't regret that.
Unrepentance.
This is April 12th, 2002, and Obama served with him on a panel just seven days later.
Do I need to read the did you get all that?
Were you able to hear it all?
You should I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna play it again.
I'm gonna read the transcript.
Uh for those of you who are unable to hear it.
He said, I considered myself partly an anarchist then, and I consider myself partly an anarchist now.
I mean, I'm as much an anarchist uh as I am a Marxist, which is to say I find a lot of the ideas in anarchism, you know, uh appealing.
And I'm very open about what I think.
Nobody here is surprised by what I think.
The struggle over various religious fundamentalism, it's jihad being, you know, the most visible, but the religious fundamentalism of the Christians and of the Jews is equally troubling.
It's uh is one of the regrets that I took extreme measures against the United States at a time of tremendous crisis?
No, it's not.
I don't regret it at all.
Uh Obama claims he thought the guy was rehabilitated.
He's lying through his teeth.
He knows the guy hasn't been rehabilitated.
He knows that Michael Klanske, an advowed communist and a good friend of Obama's, has not been rehabilitated.
He knows that Jeremiah Wright has not been rehabilitated despite being thrown under the bus.
Uh, and uh, and he knows that uh all of his other associations are just they're out of the airs book.
He sought them out.
He, Obama, found them.
Obama is the window dressing, and this is this is what is so frustrating about the so-called intellectuals in the conservative media falling out now and lining up with Obama.
And they're doing it over style.
These are supposedly the smartest people in the conservative movement, and they're falling prey to style.
Obama's slickness, his communicative skills.
And they know it, and they know it, and they just don't think he'll actually be this.
Well, he actually is.
Holy moly out there, folks.
The bottom has fallen out of the oil price.
Sixty-six dollars and ninety cents is now the price for a barrel of oil.
Sixty-six dollars ninety cents.
It opened the day around 72.
The bottom's falling out.
OPEC is powerless.
They cannot stop this.
$2.83 cents at the pump down here, you're telling me.
In Lake Worth, where Obama was yesterday.
See, where Obama goes, economic uh delights are spread left and right.
No, no, seriously.
Uh the oil price is coming down.
OPEC cannot stop this.
OPEC, they're gonna have to do something, and Hugo Chavez, the Russians.
Like, how about a combined contrived shortage?
It happened in the early 70s.
There was no oil shortage, the Saudis and the OPEX, they just stopped shipping it for a while.
All the tankers were out there.
Uh it's gonna be challenging for them to do that with lower demand, but it might be one of those interesting first tests that Obama might face, according to uh Senator uh Biden.
A couple of McCain sound bites this morning in Manchester, New Hampshire.
Last week, his campaign actually found itself on a detour into the real world in the driveway of Joe the Plumber.
Joe didn't ask for Senator Obama to come to his house, and he sure didn't ask to be famous, and he certainly didn't ask for the political attacks on him from the Obama campaign.
As he told Joe, Barack Obama wants to quote, spread the wealth around.
Let me repeat something.
We had a we had a call yesterday just about this time when a guy was all happy.
They haven't found anything substantive on Joe the Plumber.
And for that, just folks, that focused it for me.
Stop and think of that.
They, the Obama campaign and the media, they haven't found anything on Joe the Plumber.
Who the hell are they to look?
What gives them the right to look into the private life of a private citizen?
He's not part of the McCain campaign.
He is not running for anything.
He can't raise anybody's taxes.
He can't send anybody's kid off to war.
And now he can't even work because the plumbers have ganged up on him because he supposedly didn't have a license.
What the hell are we becoming?
Hey, haven't found any substantive on Joe the Plumber.
What business is it of theirs to start prying into Joe the Plumber's life?
All he did was ask a question.
I admonished you yesterday, I do so again today.
Rent the movie Lives of Others.
It's uh spoken in German, but it's captioned, subtitled, you'll be able to read along with it.
Won the Academy Award for best foreign film.
That's because Hollywood thought the movie portrayed life in America under Bush.
Bunch of dunces.
Rent the movie.
Find out what it's like living in a place where everybody is Joe the Plumber.
And they have cameras in your house.
And they come find you when you say something that's unacceptable.
Rent the movie.
Here's another portion of McCain today in Manchester, New Hampshire.
Joe didn't really like that idea much, and neither did a lot of other folks who believe that their earnings are their own.
After all, before government can redistribute wealth, it has to confiscate wealth from those who earned it.
And whatever the right word is for that way of thinking, the redistribution of wealth is the last thing America needs right now.
Ever.
In these tough economic times, we don't need government spreading the wealth.
We need policies that create wealth and spread opportunity.
Right on red on red on and let's see.
Well, let's go to play number seven.
The uh McCain camp has a new ad called uh I am Joe De Plumber.
I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for it.
I'm Joe the Plumber.
Spread the wealth.
I'm for both the work harder just to pay more taxes.
Obama wants my sweat to pay for his trillion dollars in new spending.
I'm Joe the Plumber.
Barack Obama.
Higher taxes, more spending, not ready.
I'm John McCain, and I approve this message.
And here's Chuck Schumer, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
I'm screwing up with Mike here.
I'm doing things other than what I told him.
Uh, but we do it on the fly here.
Number nine, this is Schumer.
Yesterday at the uh Washington National Press Club, predicting Obama will win in a landslide.
The tectonic plates are changing, and it serves us well.
And I think it will mean that Barack Obama, and I said this six months ago before the financial crisis.
I said it publicly, we'll get more than 300 electoral votes, and I think it helps us in the Senate in a very significant way.
Anybody say overconfident?
We got three polls out today, two of them at one point and one poll at three points.
As predicted, it's tightening up.
Moving on again to Senator Biden.
Tuesday afternoon, Greeley, Colorado.
We're gonna fight for every single solitary vote.
I want to remind you, in the middle of October, in the beginning of October, the last two presidential elections, things looked awful good too.
You know what these guys are gonna do.
They're gonna throw everything from the kitchen sink to the bathroom sink, and everything else they can find at Barack Obama and me between now and then.
And we cannot.
We cannot.
We cannot forego one single solitary vote, ladies and gentlemen.
Doesn't sound like Chuck Schumer there, does he?
Schumer's, oh yeah, 300 electoral votes, the tectonic plates are shifting out there.
And uh and smoke and Joe out here is concerned here that they may not be able to cheat, get every vote that they need.
Uh here is Obama.
Now, this is yesterday, Channel 9 in Washington, the host Derek McGuinty.
So your running mate raised a few eyebrows recently when he suggested in the first six months of your administration if you're to win, your enemies will test you some kind of drastic way.
Do you agree with that?
What's he basing that on?
Does Senator Biden know something we don't know?
No, he doesn't.
I I I think uh what Joe was trying to say is that any president uh is gonna be severely tested uh uh because of the legacy of uh two wars.
We got one in Iraq, one in Afghanistan.
Uh, bin Laden is still uh at large.
Uh and a lot of times uh terrorists uh have tried to deal with transition periods uh in governments by launching attacks.
Uh yeah.
Okay, again, said nothing.
Peggy Noonan, David Brooks, David Frum thought it was brilliant.
Said nothing.
Now we've got additional Biden sound bites on this guaranteeing world calamity.
The uh McCain campaign forced the drive-bys into playing all of the Biden bites, the better ones, NBC, they were suppressing the uh the good ones.
Uh here is Senator Biden at a fundraiser, Sunday in Seattle.
The whole world's waiting, folks.
The whole world is waiting.
I know almost every one of these major leaders in the world by their first name, not because I'm important, because they were young parliamentarians when I was coming up.
Yeah, we've been hanging around a long time.
Yeah, tell you what.
And mark my words.
Within the next first six months of this administration, if we win, they're gonna we're gonna face a major international challenge.
Because they're gonna want to test him just like they did young John Kennedy.
They're gonna want to test him.
And they're gonna find out this guy's got steel in his spine.
Now that's the soundbite they were all playing yesterday.
He's got steel in his spine.
They left a whole lot out.
By the way, what else uh nobody else is talking about, at least the the drive-by's, he did the same thing Saturday night in San Francisco.
This was not, you know, a swerve of Joe Biden's mouth running off.
This was calculated, and I think it was specifically because he was privy to the foreign policy briefing that both transition teams got last week.
And I know by I know guys like Biden.
When Biden knows something nobody else knows, he can't keep it to himself.
He is dying to tell us what he learned.
Because he wants us to know how in the no he is, but he can't divulge the specifics.
So what he did, he went out there, trust me, mark my words.
I know this.
This young man is gonna be tested.
That's as close as he can get to telling us something we don't know that he does know.
He's that kind of person.
You know these kind of people.
So it's obvious that he got these things, he's got this information, and it must be pretty bad for him to go out and guarantee this.
Here is another bite uh with uh Biden in Seattle on Sunday, comparing Obama to JFK and blah blah blah.
Mark my words.
It will not be six months before the world catch Barack Obama like they did John Chand.
The world's looking.
We're about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old president of the United States of America.
Remember, I said standing here in your anything else I said.
Watch.
We're gonna have an international crisis.
Generate a crisis.
I can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might originate.
Listen, he's gonna need help.
I mean, I know what he's gonna need is you need you, not financially, but we're gonna need you to use your influence, your influence in the community to stand with you.
Because it's not gonna be apparent initially.
Now, this is just amazing.
He's saying he knows it's gonna be a generated crisis, and it's gonna be bad.
And it is going to happen.
Four or five scenarios, and he's gonna need help.
He's gonna need your help.
Don't lose your support, don't let the polls go down.
You gotta stay and use your influence in the community, stand with him because it's not gonna be apparent we're doing the right thing.
So what's gonna happen is we're gonna have this, whatever it is, this incident.
Obama's gonna handle it all wrong, and Biden's saying, please still love us.
Hang in with the guy.
What?
I I have I have no clue what the incident's gonna be.
He obviously knows.
Uh see.
So this these are the things that the uh the drive-by's, uh, ladies and gentlemen, uh tried to suppress and try oh, everybody president gets attacked.
Everybody uh president uh gets attacked.
Gotta take a brief break.
I was called a terrorist, I'm told today on TV.
Um we have the audio soundbite here.
Uh back grab number 24.
Let's let's play it here before we go to the break.
Now, what sponsored this?
Like, oh, I guess I'm being compared to airs.
Is what this I I don't know.
This is this is um the view on ABC.
Co-host Barbara Walters says, Elizabeth, do you ever ever doubt anything about the Republicans?
Do you ever doubt I sat here and talked about Rush Limbaugh?
I actually, when Barack Obama gave his speech and I've said this when I have said I can't arrest Rush Limbaugh is a terrorist.
You heard it here, ladies and gentlemen.
And they applauded.
She was saying, I'm not a Republican.
She wasn't going to give Elizabeth Hasselbeck any credit because Elizabeth Hasselbeck.
Poor young woman.
Once did savagely attack me.
I forget what about.
So she was going to say, Oh, yeah, Barbara, I attack Rush Limbaugh and Joy Behar were going to He's not a Republican.
He's a terrorist.
We'll be back in just a sitting down, ladies and gentlemen.
I have more polling data that has just been brought to my attention.
A new Rasmussen Fox poll shows the Republican ticket in Ohio is up over Obama 4947.
The flip-flopping results follows Joe the Plumber's doubts over Obama's tax plan.
This, by the way, dovetails with the uh McCain campaign's internals in Ohio.
So now it's 4947.
McCain over Obama.
Shows the McCain with his highest level of support in Ohio since mid-September.
Two percent still undecided.
The same poll places McCain ahead in Florida, 4948.
Both battleground states now too close to call, with Florida's 27 electoral votes, the big bonus prize.
Don't go wobbly on me out there, my friends.
Here's Diane in Westchester County in New York.
Great to have you.
Thank you for waiting.
Welcome to the program.
Thank you so much, Fashion.
It's been a long time trying to get through.
But I had a question.
We all know that the Democrats are the ones that caused this tobacco with the loans and Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac and Force Nitt on the bank on the banks.
And it's been going on for years.
Years and years.
Then we had Schumer pull up like the like a thread on a blanket.
And everything collapsed shortly after Schumer said this company was going down.
That's a California bank, right?
Yep.
And what happened then?
It all came tumbling down.
And I think they've been planning this for years to give somebody, a Democrat, all the economics they needed, because Obama cannot defeat McCain when it comes to security in our country.
He can't, and right, and right that that's where the campaign right now is on security.
The last place the Obama campaign wants it to be with 13 days to go, thanks to Joe Biden.
Biden put it there because he can't keep his mouth shut.
Look, I know a lot of people agree with you that this economic fiasco here, which is directly traceable to Democrats, happens a month before the election.
So you're not alone in in in your suspicions.
Harry in Dayton, Ohio.
One minute, Harry, or maybe a little longer.
I know you can squeeze it in.
Rush, good to talk to you.
Just a quick, just a quick question.
I'm kind of cynical.
Maybe this is a cold approach, but the trip by uh Obama to Hawaii.
Do you suppose this is for real?
Or do you think this might be a ploy to get some kind of a uh uh Boy Scout uh sympathy type vote among uh voters and white voters, et cetera?
Here's the answer to the question.
Whether it's a cynical ploy or whether the grandmother's really sick, the drive bys are already reporting it.
As a man who understands the importance of family first.
ABC has already done this.
Why he's willing to suspend his campaign and give the floor to John McCain for two whole days to go visit the white grandmother who raised him.
So regardless why he's going out there, the drive-by's are going to portray it as one of the biggest acts of selflessness That we have ever seen.
He's willing to risk losing the presidency to be with the white woman who raised him, his grandmother.
Who, by the way, he is thrown under the bus a couple of times in this campaign.
All right, folks, that's it for this segment.
We'll be back and wrap it up after this.
Now, this tells me they're scared.
NBC and the Wall Street Journal poll says that Sarah Palin is a bigger drag on McCain than President Bush.
Now that is just patently absurd.
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