all of my thinking says romney big. not even close. 300 plus electoral votes for romney. even though president obama very clearly ran on raising income tax rates for top earners, paul ryan claims he is not so sure that s what america actually voted for. his argument is people voted for him because they believe tax rates should be raised. do you disagree? i don t know if i agree with that. we have divided government, they also voted for a clear majority. never mind that more votes were cast for democrats in the house of representatives than republicans. in the house, republicans maintained their majority, strictly through gerrymandering their districts, and never mind that election exit polls show that 13% of voters said they should increase all tax rates on everyone, and another 47% said increase tax rates for incomes over 250,000, so that adds up to
47-39 over reagan? right. now, part of this is, yeah, and the gallup. bill: that s amazing. we forget about it now. i remember at the time people i was the director of the reagan campaign in texas historically democrat state at that point. and i can remember people saying well, we re losing to this guy. how can would he be losing to this guy with the economy as bad as it is? now, one of the reasons is the polls have a false scientific provision. take a look at this. this is on the 129 of september. four national polls, cbs news, new york times had 13 points more democrats than republicans and a 3 point advantage for obama. cnn had 10 points more democrats than republicans. and a 6 point advantage for obama maflt the washington post, abc six points more democrat than republic. rasmussen had it at dead even between the two parties and one point advantage for romney. in 2008, the election exit polls had 78 points more democrats than republicans.
47-39 over reagan? right. now, part of this is, yeah, and the gallup. bill: that s amazing. we forget about it now. i remember at the time people i was the director of the reagan campaign in texas historically democrat state at that point. and i can remember people saying well, we re losing to this guy. how can would he be losing to this guy with the economy as bad as it is? now, one of the reasons is the polls have a false scientific provision. take a look at this. this is on the 129 of september. four national polls, cbs news, new york times had 13 points more democrats than republicans and a 3 point advantage for obama. cnn had 10 points more democrats than republicans. and a 6 point advantage for obama maflt the washington post, abc six points more democrat than republic. rasmussen had it at dead even between the two parties and one point advantage for romney. in 2008, the election exit polls had 78 points more democrats than republicans.
47-39 over reagan? right. now, part of this is, yeah, and the gallup. bill: that s amazing. we forget about it now. i remember at the time people i was the director of the reagan campaign in texas historically democrat state at that point. and i can remember people saying well, we re losing to this guy. how can would he be losing to this guy with the economy as bad as it is? now, one of the reasons is the polls have a false scientific provision. take a look at this. this is on the 129 of september. four national polls, cbs news, new york times had 13 points more democrats than republicans and a 3 point advantage for obama. cnn had 10 points more democrats than republicans. and a 6 point advantage for obama maflt the washington post, abc six points more democrat than republic. rasmussen had it at dead even between the two parties and one point advantage for romney. in 2008, the election exit polls had 78 points more democrats than republicans.
where romney is closing. that telling. if i just spent $20 million on television and lost 4 points i would assume my ads aren t any good. megyn: you talk about the oversampling of one party over the other in these polls. karl rove was on o reilly trying to make the point with this famous white board. 2008 the election exit polls had 7 points more democrats than republicans. big gleft decades. in 04 it was dead even and a 3-point having for the democrats in turnouts. who thinks in this election that there are going to be 13 points fewer republican turnout than democrat? why do the polls do that? they simply take a poll, take whoever they get during the time that they are taking the poll which could be a friday or saturday night. whoever answers the phone when write it down, they don t