Thud: Where’s Kerry’s post-convention bounce?

National Review Online ^ | August 2, 2004 | Robert Moran

[MadIvan]

Kerry's salute was so contrived and awful I'm surprised his ratings didn't go into reverse on that alone.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Ping!

[Bonaventure]

The new Washington Post poll may break the no-bump consenus. This morning's edition of the Note says "hold onto your hats" and suggests Newsweek and Gallup are out of line.

[areafiftyone]

ABC is supposed to come out with some sort of bounce for Kerry this evening. Yea riiiight!

[blanknoone]

I think this convention was a success. Think about goals. The D's goal was to hold a week long convention without saying anything substantial and without revealing anything about their candidate other than a few months 37 years ago. And they needed to do that without it being an absolute catastrophe. They suceeded in revealing nothing without imploding. That is the best a party can do who is running a candidate whose campaign strategy is to remain an unknown to get the ABB vote.

[Slings and Arrows]

I still think it was more of a Splat than a Thud. Splats are messier.

[proudpapa]

Maybe we should help raise money so the democrats could have another convention, just before the election.

[No Blue States]

"Democratic officials have to be troubled that the Boston repackaging generated so few additional buyers."

TDIDS.

[WOSG]

Make that 'hold on to your tinfoil hats'.

There was newsweek (already debunked here on FR as a biased poll that oversampled dems by 8pts to even CREATE a 4pt bounce);
there was Gallup (negative bounce)
there was Rasmussen (bounce within MOE);
there was Zogby (more of a speedbump than a bounce).

All of them show a close race as of today.

So add one more poll and 5 others should be ignored?

I dont think so!

I saw the Bush speech on Friday and the Kerry acceptance on Thursday night. Bush was relaxed confident, hit so many hot-button points in a graceful way... I felt good about his speech, his issues and where he stands vis a vis kerry - he is a superior candidate to everyone except the Bush haters.

The media can try to light a wet rag on fire, but it won't take.

Now, if the polls really move, fine, we have to deal with that, but facts are not showing it in some polls, so I'm not buying media Polloganda and taking it at face value.

[foreshadowed at waco]

ROTFLMAO bump.

[foreshadowed at waco]

ROTFLMAO bump.

[Salvation]

**Thud: Where’s Kerry’s post-convention bounce?**

In the gutter, no, in the sewer.

[Always Right]

It is amazing, Kerry spent 20 years in one of the most powerful positions in the world and the Dems don't spend 5 minutes talking about what Kerry has accomplished. What Kerry has stood for, what Kerry has championed. The only issue I heard even mentioned was the normalization of relations with Vietnam, which BTW Kerry's brother has about a billion dollars worth of contracts as a result. Come on, where has Kerry been? Kerry has done NOTHING for 20 years and now wants a promotion????

[pabianice]

Kerry's sloppy salute proved again that he was what we call in the Navy a "Dilbert."

[Poohbah]

Lawn Dart Bounce.

[Arizona Carolyn]

He's been watching too many re-runs of George C Scott in Patton --

[coydog]

Dead hamster bounce!

[Legion04]

Gore lost, kerry already lost. let's move on.

[Happygal]

This is a more convincing salute! ;-)

[Wallace T.]

IF there are no major disasters in Iraq and the economy continues to improve, Kerry-Edwards is toast, and Bush carries all the states (except NH) he did in 2000, plus IA, WI, NM, PA, DE, OR, and (surprisingly) MN. Thanks to Schwarzenegger, Bush loses CA by only six points, and thanks to fears of terrorism, he loses NJ by only a slim margin. The Democrats will be in denial by about 8 PM (CT) as Bush carries VA by 12 points and it is neck to neck in NJ (Newark and Hudson County, along with their graveyards, come through again for the Democrats.) By 10 PM (CT), all four news networks and CNN will call FL for Bush as the Panhandle vote breaks the deadlock in the rest of the state(of course Peter Jennings, Dan Rather, et. al., will all look like their beloved dog died).