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Take Rush 24/7 on Your Himalayan Hike

CALLER: My husband and I got home yesterday from a 17-day hiking trip in the Himalayas.  We had no access to news, so we missed both the vice president and the second presidential debate.  But we're 24/7 members.  So as soon as we got Internet, we downloaded all the programs for the past few weeks.

Polls Show Mittmentum Everywhere

RUSH: We're getting close to the election, and the pollsters want, of course, their final polls to be as close to the real outcome as possible... What you have here is a trend... We came up with a word last week to describe it: "Mittmentum."

Caller's Analysis of Skewed Poll Samples

RUSH: It's a semantic argument only. In the example he gave where there are 40 Democrats and 30 Republicans sampled, the conventional wisdom now -- the way of reporting that -- is a Democrat-plus-ten sample, and in raw numbers, it is. His point was that it's much greater than ten in reality, that it is a 33% increase in the number of Democrats sampled, not ten.

Rush 24/7 Converts Pennsylvania Dems

CALLER: I go down the list of everything you might have talked about, and then they pick which one they want to talk about. And then I'll fast forward on your website to that time and I'll let it play out and then we'll talk about it. But since then, we now have 72 people that regularly come here.

Who Met with Bob Schieffer Today?

RUSH: My question, who from the Obama team is meeting with Bob Schieffer today?  Why would I ask?  Because I think somebody from the Obama team met with Candy Crowley.

Libya and the Obama Worldview

RUSH: I went back and I found it.  It was in his Cairo speech in one example, where Obama said, (paraphrasing) "It's not right for one nation to tell another they can or can't have nukes."