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Rush Limbaugh warned Trump supporters not to assume polls showing the GOP nominee losing were “rigged,” admitting that he thought the same in 2012 only to be proven wrong.

“I wish that I could sit here and tell you that I, without question, think the polls are rigged. I have thought so in previous elections,” Limbaugh said Monday on his radio show.

He admitted he was cautious about dismissing unfavorable polls because he mistakenly did the same thing in 2012, underestimating President Barack Obama’s support.

“In 2012, honest to God, folks, I thought Romney was gonna win by five or six. There weren't any polls that said that. I thought they were all using an incorrect turnout sample,” Limbaugh said. “The way I was looking at it was the 2010 midterms in which the Republicans won landslides. It was the Tea Party. The Democrats lost 700 seats all told nationwide in the 2010 midterms. And I said, ‘You know what? They're not using that turnout in the 2012 presidential polls.’ Turns out they never do.”

One problem with polling that factors in turnout is people sometimes lie about who they voted for in the previous election—nobody wants to admit to voting for a loser—and such discrepancies can bias polls. “If that’s the case this year,” the Los Angeles Times’ David Lauter wrote in August, “then weighting for the vote history would result in slightly too many Republican voters in the sample, which would probably boost Trump’s standing by a point or two.”

In the months leading up to the 2012 election, Rush told listeners that many mainstream polls had a bias towards Obama.

“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 said in late September 2012 of a CBS/New York Times poll and a Washington Post poll. “These two polls today are designed to convince everybody this election is over.”

In 2016, though, he has been more cautious. Limbaugh said in August that “it’s a risk here to just throw the polls out and say they don't matter because you end up creating a false reality for yourself that isn't true.”

Rush has been dancing around the solution to this riddle for weeks. When I get back to my computer, I'll explain in more detail.

If you don't think the media is trying to sway the election just like they did in 2012, maybe you should email Romney and see if you can't borrow some of his magic underwear...

I happened to be listening to about an hour of his Monday broadcast, and he quite clearly explained WHY there are such huge discrepancies between polls like NBC, ABC news polling vs. IBD/TIPP....and he agreed with Trumps assertions that the polling is rigged...

And George Soros owns the election machines in 16 states - nothing to see here.

How many rallies did Romney hold that turned away 10K people due to capacity being maxed?







Travis

LMFAO! LostHighway praising Rush Limbaugh. You can't make this SH'T up. The libs are getting desperate!!

There are good reasons that polls differ or mislead.

Some polls poll everyone. Those polls tend to strongly favor Dems.

Some polls poll registered voters. Those polls tend to favor Dems.

Some polls poll likely voters. Those tend to be reasonably fair. An example is the Rassmussen poll.

Pat Caddell, longtime poll expert and consultant was incensed that some of the major polling organizations recently revised their algorithm for adjusting the sample they actually got to match a more perfectly representative sample. He claimed that the new results deliberately bias the polls in favor of Hillary. So there's your fourth possible source of error: deliberate lies.

I would suggest that everyone completely disregard the polls at this point, and make sure to get out and vote.

I'm bummed because at this point, I think Hillary is going to win. Then DOJ, the FBI, and the other government institutions we should be able to trust will be permanently corrupted. That corruption will only be cast off at great cost, if ever.