Last night, I predicted a 9 point bounce overall for the convention - those numbers haven't come out yet of course - but ALSO said that the media would spin them down to the error percentage of the poll. If he got 9 points, it would be spun down to 5 to reflect the margin of error, and the line would be that neither got "much of a bounce" due to the lack of real undecided voters.
We'll wait a couple of days and see how the spin goes.
I think Kerry jumped the shark last night with his mid-night rally.
The media knows he can't win after that embarassment.
Kerry about so bad that MSNBC cut away from his speech half way with Chris Matthews saying "well this is President Bush's night."
The very idea of the midnight rally was petty, the speech itself was even more petty. A lot of the left are starting to see Kerry for what he is, they never liked him to begin with, they only liked him because they wanted to beat Bush. Now that they see Kerry as a lost cause, a lot of themthe are mad at him for failing them, and as a embarassment to them.