RUSH: A couple of stories here, one is from the Boston Globe by Megan Woodhouse and the other is from the New Republic. The headline of the Boston Globe piece: "Poll Finds Deepening Economic Pessimism." The headline from the New Republic piece is: "Slice the Demographics Any Way You Want, But Obama Is In Trouble." Let's go to the Boston Globe piece first here. "Despite improvements in the economy," is how it begins, which is the first problem right there. The Drive-Bys keep telling us that there is an "improvement" in the economy. But like the Russians, we ain't buying it -- and it's in every poll! The Russians aren't buying Putin, and we aren't buying this business. It's in every poll: We're not buying this business the economy is rebounding.
Problem is, I don't trust polls. Never have. Never will.
What is a poll? Some agency calls up 1,000 people and asks them questions.
We don't know who these thousand people are - except the fact that they don't have caller ID - otherwise they wouldn't answer their phones in the first place, eh?
We don't know if they are Dems, Republicans, or what have you. We don't know if they talked to one person in every major city of the country, or 20 people in each of 50 cities, or 1,000 people on the voting rolls, or what.
And so, I just don't trust 'em.
If the polls talked to 10,000 people...maybe even 5,000 people. But a mere 1,000 - no, I don't think so.
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