Posted on 08/02/2004 12:30:49 PM PDT by Bonaventure
CAMERON: POST SHOWS LITTLE BOUNCE [08/02 02:45 PM]
Carl Cameron on Fox News just said that the Washington Post poll may suggest that "if there was a bounce from the convention, it was indeed one of the smallest bounces in history."
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I'll give this a major "woo-hoo"! Many of us here were waiting for the other polling shoe to drop. If indeed Carl is right, and I can't imagine he would have said this unless he was confident of its accuracy, this is great news.
There is a virtual media black out of the negative bounce.
In ALL other years we had WEEKS of bounce story.
The media helps by reporting and NOT reporting.
Here's hoping even the Washington Post poll is unkind to Kerry.
Do folks think Bush will succeed where Kerry (apparently) failed and get a bump coming out of his convention? Or will NYC be a negative for the GOP because all the freaks in the world will come out to hijack the coverage with their protests?
Has there been any reporting on Gallup's extended polling after they didn't like the results of their last poll? They said they were going to poll Sunday to see if they could find out why Kerry didn't get a bounce.
I hope it is true, too. The wording of that note was simply ambiguous. I don't think it was definitive that it will show a big bounce, just that it MAY show a bounce. Big difference.
Say what you will about Arnold and Rudy (and Lord knows I've said my share), but they're a very popular contrast to the unwashed, unshaven protesters the Left will send to the convention.
The girly boys and wymn at the Note are just a bunch of hysterical libs.
I think Bush will get at least a small bounce, because they will be showcasing Arnold, Rudy. Mccain, and Zel..
But the Dems featured Jimmy carter, Al Sharpton, Howard Dean and Bill Clinton...
ABC's The Note
politicalunit@abcnews.com
WHEN the President gets a significant bounce out of the Republican convention, the media and the Phlegmocrats will point to the timing of the convention as being the key. They will whine, "Well, if we had convened our convention when kids were in school and everybody was back from summer vacations, we would have gotten a big bounce too." Of course, they will claim this to be yet another Republican dirty trick.
Weren't they the ones that did a poll before the convention that showed Kerry way up, but when you looked at the internals, they had overweighted the Democrats by 10%. The truth of the poll was that Bush was ahead by about 4%. They had just continued to call Democrats until they got the results that they wanted! LOL The polls are a joke.
You're probably right. Arnold and Rudy ought to get good coverage. And Bush's speech has got to be better than Kerry's. Michael Gerson is a genius.
Time to focus on the future. Write letters to the editors of your local newspapers, find and post great articles on FR, call your local radio shows.
If you find really good documented info, forward it to your favorite radio or TV hosts.
Who would actually believe in such a farce, anyway? Why, the "educated" and "cultured" elite of American society, that's who! And the rest us (the supposedly ill-mannered and backward troglodytes of reaction)? Were the ones who know it was nothing more than a pathetic joke.
The entire convention was a shameless, manipulative deceit. The postmodern nihilists on the Left will act as though nothing's changed, of course, but we know better. The Left Pig Media is dead.
Hitler - "the task of propaganda lies not in a scientific training of the individual, but rather in directing the masses towards certain facts, events, necessities, etc., the purpose being to move their importance into the masses' field of vision."
I think they have been overweighting 'ratic voters all year. They have just run out of new ways to "designate the correct demographics" for their calls. Like stocks that go down on good news, the bounce was anticipated and already built into the price/poll.
They "believe" that the country is evenly divided and work outward from that premise.
I believe that Bush has much more supoort than Kerry, and the polling companies are not using any more science to support their "belief" than I am.
On CNN's Crossfire, James Carville totally changed the subject when Tucker Carlson tried to pin him down about the lack of bounce.
A Dem congressman on the show, Jim Turner of TX, tried to claim with a straight face that going into the convention "he didn't expect a bounce." Yeah, right.
**The media helps by reporting and NOT reporting.**
Time to send this url to FoxNewsWatch!
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