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To: Joe NYC who wrote (200791)	9/7/2004 11:02:01 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575178

Rush thinks that Bush lead is much smaller than what Time and Newsweek showed: RUSH: You saw the TIME and the Newsweek polls, I'm sure, that showed Bush with double-digit leads. We now know, folks - this is not speculation - those two surveys were over-sampled with Republicans. I think 7% to 8% larger sample of Republicans. Now, the pollsters for TIME and Newsweek are saying, "Well, we didn't do it on purpose. It's just who was home when we called. They were home because they were all excited about the Republican convention and so forth." So there's been some reworking of the numbers, and I think the TIME poll, if you properly weighed it, would show Bush with a six-point lead. The Newsweek poll would show Bush with a three-point lead. Rasmussen has a one point lead in his poll, but he's weighting it in a different way. He's throwing out a Saturday to give Bush a four-point lead. The Bushies think they have a four-point lead. Some people speculated that the TIME and Newsweek polls are weighted are Republicans so as to show a Kerry rebound down the road when the double-digit lead doesn't hold. Now, I don't know if the media would actually do that, do you? Do you think the media would come up with a phony poll showing Bush way up only a week or two later to show Bush having lost half of it? Do you think they would do that? Do we even want to consider that possibility here, ladies and gentlemen? Nah, they wouldn't do that! It just couldn't possibly happen. But when they do have release their next polls and it shows Bush not with double digits, you can just rely on the fact that there was an over-sampling of Republicans. rushlimbaugh.com Joe