RE: One thing everyone seems to be missing here is the 09-11 effect.
This whole reason is so lame that I just don;t know what to make of it.
Are the America people so fickle that they would say they’d vote for Obama because it’s 9/11 and then change their mind a week later because 9/11 is over?
Same question applies to the so called post-convention “bounce”.
Did a few speeches in the DNC convention finally do the trick and make the American voter finally make up their minds?
What you need to keep in mind is many voters are not as politically aware as you and I. For them who they vote for, or even if they are going to vote, is very changeable. You really cannot look at a poll now and draw any conclusions. Carter lead Reagan comfortably in most between Sept 1st and Election day 1980