Having the convention might have helped a little. People might have tuned in out of curiosity who otherwise wouldn’t have cared. The moron protester arrests made a lot of news too. But, that probably just got people to pay more attention to the convention coverage than them.
Look at this Rasmussen poll.
Friday, September 12, 2008
“John McCain is holding a two-to-one lead over Barack Obama in the Republican stronghold state of Oklahoma, according to the first Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of voters there this election year.”
“McCain has 63% of the vote versus Obama’s 32%”
“Not only does the GOP presidential nominee have the backing of 95% of Republicans, but 41% of Oklahoma Democrats support him, too.”
I think it’s the Independents and Democrats that are making these huge swings towards McCain.