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After checking the Google for the major news outlets, here are the three major categories I've broken the stories down into:
1. No Bounce - The only Florida poll out so far (post-convention) is from PPP, and shows ZERO FLORIDA (and NC) bounce for Romney. Gallup is showing ZERO NATIONAL bounce (and perhaps a dip) for Romney, after 5 of 7 rolling-average polling days. We won't have a full "post-convention" picture from Gallup for two more polling days.
2. Short-lived Bounce - This is the most prevalent story out there. This includes Reuters, the Hill and Political Wire, and is based mostly on the Reuters/Ipsos poll (see below). Called "short-lived" because the 4-point swing toward Romney originally reported by IPSOS, has swung back to Obama +1, and this is an online poll.
3. BOUNCE!!! - Rasmussen appears to be all on its lonesome, in reporting a lasting (6-point) bounce for Romney. Before the convention, they reported an inexplicable swing toward Obama, by several points, only to be upturned by a Romney lead of 4, post-convention.
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USAToday.com (Gallup)
CHARLOTTE --It doesn't look like Mitt Romney's poll position improved after last week's Republican national convention.
Recent daily tracking poll averages nationwide put President Obama at 47% and Romney at 46%, according to Gallup.
"We have been monitoring the potential impact of the Republican convention on the presidential race on a day-by-day basis," writes Gallup's editor-in-chief Frank Newport. "So far, we don't see an impact."
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The Political Wire story
No Sign of a Bounce for Romney
Frank Newport: "We do have some new data that reinforce the tentative conclusion that the Republican convention did not change the race. The results, from data gathered Friday and Saturday and set to be released on gallup.com Monday morning, show that both the self-reported impact of the GOP convention and evaluations of Romney's speech were at the very low end of the scale compared with the previous years in which we have asked the same questions about other conventions and nominees."
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Reuters/Ipsos
(Reuters) - A modest bump in popularity for U.S. presidential hopeful Mitt Romney from this week's Republican Party convention looks to be short-lived, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.
Democratic President Barack Obama regained a narrow lead on Saturday by 44 percent to 43 percent over his Republican challenger, former Massachusetts Governor Romney, in the latest daily installment of the four-day rolling poll.
Romney was ahead by one point in Friday's online poll and two points in Thursday's survey as his campaign came under a blaze of media attention at the convention in Tampa, Florida.
Not surprisingly, (nearly) ALL the right-wing sites are quoting
ONLY the Rassmussen poll, and really seem to believe that Romney bounced by 6 points. I won't link to them, as it might give you a virus, or scurvy.
And here are some heartening pics from Nate's site
This was Romney's last chance to burrow himself, unchallenged, into the hearts and minds of American voters. And, he's failed. As has happened before, the more we see of him, the less we like him.
GOTV-GOTV-GOTV-GOTV-GOTV-GOTV-GOTV-GOTV-GOTV-GOTV!!!!!