[GiveEmDubya]

NEW GALLUP POLL WILL SHOW BUSH UP BY 3. BEFORE THE CONVENTION, KERRY LED BY 4.

To know Kerry is to dislike him!

[Brett66]

Bunnygate bounce. BTTT!

[Tanniker Smith]

This is nice.
OTOH, Rasmussen has a positive four point bounce, putting Kerry over 50%.

Time to hack away at the rhetoric. But keep things in perspective: there just aint a lot of undecideds out there to give Bush much of a bounce either. Granted, Kerry's support isn't as firm as Bush's, but they just have to show up on that one day.

TS

[oblomov]

"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!!!"

[happydogdesign]

[NeoCaveman]

I question the timing of this poll?

No not really, but Daschle is deeply saddened.

[deport]

It's all Bush's fault

[Howlin]

FYI.

[OXENinFLA]

What a perfect pic for the occasion.........

[ChadGore]

THANK GOD.

YOU CAN ALWAYS TRUTH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

[labard1]

Kerry gets no bump from the hamster vote?

[rambo316]

My Freeper friends, don't hinge all of your hopes on stupid polls. President George W. Bush is going to win in a landslide.

[savedbygrace]

I blame the hamster.

[Mulder]

LOL! I figured that he would lose points as a result of the "convention".

Of course, I expect Bush to lose points also after his convention.

The American people don't like either one of these guys, and it will come down to whoever they dislike the most.

[POA2]

Great news! - Lets see what the Cover of the USA TODAY decides to go with tomorrow! -

Will it be the likely voter poll showing GWB up 50-47 or the Registered poll showing Kerry up by 3 or 4pts ??

[kabar]

How about a subterranean bounce?

[Libertina]

ROTFLOL A bonk, indeed :)

[Captain Peter Blood]

Well their calling this the "Dead Cat Bounce" and it seems very appropriate for Kerry.
I have watched political convention's since I was 5 years old, Republican & Democrat, and I can truthfully say this Democratic Convention was the most boring I have ever witnessed. Not that I expect much much more from the Republican Convention, but there will be a few speakers that will make it interesting. I will have to concur that Barak Obama was probably their best speaker and new blood for the Democrats but Kerry, Edwards and Company were horrible. Nothing new, no ideas, nothing that excites the imagination at all. I have never not seen some type of poll bounce out of a convention and I don't buy it that it's because of a small group of undecided voters.
There is just nothing that turns anyone on, except the Democratic base and even all of them are not thrilled, with this ticket.
It is still going to be a very close election but I feel a little more optimistic than I did back in January about Bush's prospects.
Even as far out as Dean was at least he had passion and truly believed his message. He would have made a far more interesting candidate than Kerry. But their best man was Lieberman and her would have made the race much more competitive and yet because of his more traditional beliefs he is the odd man out in his own party, he might as well join the Republican Party, we will welcome him with open arms. Their best mainstream candidate hands down would have been Zell Miller and he's speaking at the Republican Convention, how is that for irony?
The Democratic Party has truly become the KOOK Party and is in the hands of the extreme Left, Trotskyite Wing of the Party. I truly believe they are making themselves the party of irrelevance for the future.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

This is so much like the Nixon-McGovern contest it's almost like being 32 years younger. The hatred for the incumbent is a good example.

There are important differences. Wallace's 18 percent was up for grabs once he was eliminated by the assassination attempt, for example. Before that Nixon and McGovern split the other 82 percent equally.

McGovern got no bounce and remained stuck where he was when he left the starting gate. The same obnoxious ilk that supported McGovern are Kerry's base; i.e., mainstream media employees, self-proclaimed "intellectuals," the Hollywood Jane Fondas, various malcontents -- these "things" turn off the apolitical voter. In order to have a chance the Rats will have to send both the Kerry ticket and his supporters out of the country until after election day.

It's not likely to be a 520 - 17 Electoral College blowout but IMO it won't be close.

[RGSpincich]

The "Anybody but Kerry" folks have a voice.