http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2016/10/28/if_hillary_is_losing_ground_what_s_causing_itIf Hillary Is Losing Ground, What's Causing It?
October 28, 2016
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RUSH: Okay. So, if the election is turning and if Hillary Clinton is losing ground -- and I say "if" -- why? What would be causing it, do you think? It's Friday, folks. Let's go.
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RUSH: What would be causing it? Look. You can find all kinds of polling data. Washington Post tracking poll, what is she down, eight points in the last four days. Now, there was a guy, somebody said the polls are gonna tighten. Somebody said that. I remember hearing it. I listen to myself very closely when I speak. Somebody said that. Eight points in four days, and that's just the Washington Post poll. There's other polling data out there that shows something similar.
So if Hillary Clinton is losing support -- and, look, the reason I say "if," because look what they're asking us to believe. That public opinion shifts this wildly, an eight-point drop in four days, that would indicate that support for Hillary Clinton's very soft if that can happen. Or they were not telling the truth in the polls in the first place, which is my basic contention, that polls are used as a weapon, that polls are used to make news and to shape opinion rather than reflect it.
But at some point these people in the polling business all want to maintain reputations. They all want to be as close to the end result as they can be, I think.
Maybe some are so partisan they don't even care about that. They're just gonna continue to weaponize their polls up to the end. But it's what we have to work with, and this is what the daily soap opera script is telling us, what could be causing it?
Why would Hillary be hemorrhaging support? What's happening out there to make this happen? And there are some ways you can answer that. I mean, there's some answers to the question, is why I'm asking it.
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RUSH: What if it's legit? If she's losing eight points in four days -- and I have no reason to think she's not, don't misunderstand -- what's causing it? Why are people changing their minds?
Why are people abandoning Hillary? Why are independents making up their minds and moving away from Hillary and to Trump? What could be causing this? It has to be -- it has to be -- this WikiLeaks never-ending drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip email dump. It is incredible! The next drop I think will be number 20. And the thing that is happening here, is the Drive-Bys are not succeeding in suppressing it. It is out there -- the data, the information -- and specifically about one thing. Something is breaking out.
Something is breaking through in all of this. It's not Benghazi. It's not Hillary's health. It's not the fact that she boozes it up during the daytime, apparently. Have you heard that? She's a daytime consumer of adult beverages. Yes, emails have been released of Clinton staffers asking each other, "Should we sober her up now?" It's three o'clock in the afternoon. Yeah. Go back to 2015. It's not that. It's not Benghazi. It's not the three a.m. phone call. You know what it is?
It's this Clinton Foundation stuff. This Clinton Foundation stuff, strange as it may seem, may be breaking out. And what it is illustrating is the fraud that the Clintons actually are. I went through it in great detail yesterday. They set up the Clinton Foundation. Inside that foundation, is the Clinton Global Initiative. And it's all disguised as a charitable enterprise to serve humanity, and it was all set up so Bill Clinton could recapture his great reputation and image following the Lewinsky scenario that soiled the last four years of his presidency.
He had to do it, and so becoming engaged in worldwide charities was meant to help people forget the reprobate factor of Bill Clinton's presidency. But what happened, what the real purpose of the Clinton Foundation was -- which people are now beginning to see -- was to get rich, to get personally rich! And I've got a story in the Stack today, Howard Fineman and Chris Matthews talking about this very thing, and I swear: When I read this, I think they're channeling me.
When Fineman is describing the Clintons of Arkansas and how they were surrounded by all kinds of rich donors and wealthy people and they didn't have a pot to pee in, they became obsessed with becoming rich? Getting rich like all of their donors and all of their buddies and friends in the Democrat Party? So they start out with their renaissance weekend to start networking with all these rich people and eventually shaking them down for donations at the Lincoln Bedroom and so forth.
And then that eventually becomes, "Hey, after you donate to the Clinton Foundation, we want you to pay Bill Clinton $3.9 million as a consulting fee for your company." And these companies would do it, as we have learned. And the question is: Why? Why, after you make a charitable donation to the Clinton Foundation...? It was Doug Band and his emails which were giving this up. I mean, these people were being pursued. They were being hit up. They were getting a sales pitch. "Donate to the Clinton Foundation and then, you know, pay Bill an additional $3 million to consult for your company or pay Hillary X-amount for number of speeches or whatever."
And that went to them personally. And what was going on was an assumption that the Clintons would look very favorably on these people that were both hiring them and donating to their foundation if and when they ever had a chance to get back in positions of power. Well, Hillary did as secretary of state. Now she's seeking the White House. And a bunch of people have contributed to -- quote/unquote "donated," quote/unquote "paid" -- the Clintons with major, major expectations.
But that gets in the weeds.
Where it is easy to understand is that the Clintons have gotten personally rich out of all this, and that's something that's hard to do in terms of taking the 501(c)(3) nonprofit. You have a charitable foundation, and a normal person that donates money to a foundation, it's gone. You might get to write it off, but you don't get to go grab it and put it in your pocket and live off of it; it's gone from your stash of money. It's gone. But the Clintons found a way to get to it, and they have become phenomenally wealthy while trying to deny all of it.
I think some of it may be breaking out in terms of understanding. This may not be a big deal but, you know, yesterday Michelle (My Belle) Obama did a joint appearance with the Hildebeast. Well, guess who introduced who? The Hildebeast introduced the first lady. Hillary Clinton allowed herself to be upstaged at her own rally, played second fiddle at her own rally. She needs to feed off of somebody that's loved out there, and Michelle Obama is and Hillary isn't. So there are a lot of factors that go into the.
So look, we're gonna take a break here, come back and review the polling data a little bit. We've got fascinating news outside of politics today, too. A guy is predicting riots next year when people find out what their health care premiums are gonna be. More polling data on the NFL and the fact that it is these national anthem protests, which are almost solely responsible for the drop in TV ratings. And of course the league doesn't want to hear it, the league won't talk about it, league certainly won't appear it. But appears to be the elephant in the room nobody wants to address.
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