Is OxyContin Rush Affecting National Polls?

Here is a good piece from NBC Political Director Chuck Todd (thanks for the link, JB) with regard to the superdelegate issue and how the media are trying to keep Hillary's campaign alive and are treating her as the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination even though she isn't.

But this part of Todd's piece really caught my attention:

On Monday, a Gallup poll showed that in a potential match-up, Clinton would best John McCain 51 percent to 46 percent. Obama would lead 49 percent to 47 percent. Surely, these numbers are giving Team Obama some serious heartburn.

Although I know that Gallup has, in the past, demonstrated a GOP bias when it comes to the people it contacts for these polls, there may be something more going on here.

As everyone knows by now, drug aficionado Rush Limbaugh has been telling his listeners to vote for Hillary in the primaries, and it is hard to dismiss the effect that this would have with regard to national polling. After all, thanks to Limbaugh's efforts, 130,000 Republicans voted for Hillary in the Texas Democratic primary, and 100,000 Republicans voted for her in the Ohio Democratic primary.

Limbaugh may be a walking and talking piece of fecal matter, but you can't dismiss his ability to sway ignorant people. I was sitting in the doctor's office the other day, and some folks sitting nearby were talking politics. I could tell they were Republicans because pretty much everything they said was complete bullshit, but they were talking about Rush Limbaugh a lot ("Rush said this . . .," "Rush said that . . . "), and they were speaking about him as if he was Jesus Christ Himself and were commenting as if everything this Limbaugh Idiot said was the gospel truth.

What would stop devoted Limbaugh listeners who receive calls from Gallup to simply say they'd vote for Hillary over McCain? I mean, if 100,000 Ohio Republicans and 130,000 Texas Republicans and 38,000 Mississippi Republicans were willing to get off their asses to vote in Democratic primaries, how hard would it be for these morons to pick up the phone and lie when Gallup calls?