Romney post-convention bump looks modest at best
The folks at Gallup have completed their post-GOP convention polling duties, and the reviews are not complimentary. Mitt Romney has enjoyed little or no post-convention bump, and his acceptance speech was rated excellent or good by just 38 percent of those who saw it.
While that may not sound terrible, Gallup reports that it is easily the worst rating given to any of the last eight convention acceptance speeches.
A Reuters-Ipsos poll also reports no sustained bump for Romney, and puts the race at essentially tied headed into the DNC convention in Charlotte.
“Ipsos pollster Julia Clark said she was confident Obama’s numbers would improve during his convention.
“The fact that Obama and Romney are still tied signals to me that we’re not going to see any sort of sustained bump for Romney,” Clark said. “As we go into next week’s convention, Romney will struggle to maintain even footing with the president – we’ll likely see a shift back towards Obama.”
While each candidate won overwhelming support from voters in his own political party, Romney was leading Obama among all-important independent voters by 33 percent to 28 percent, the poll found.”
Rasmussen reports what it calls a “modest” bounce for Romney, whom it has leading 48-to-44 percent.
– Jay Bookman
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independent thinker
September 4th, 2012
7:32 am
Hey genous and deficit wizard Ryan – please explain why public employment has gone down significantly in this recession under Obama while in past recessions especially your mentor Reagan, public sector employment went up ?????
“”"”"”"”"”"”here is something historically different about this recession and its aftermath: in the past, local government employment has been almost recession-proof. This time it’s not. Going back as long as the data have been collected (1955), with the one exception of the 1981 recession, local government employment continued to grow almost every month regardless of what the economy threw at it. But since the latest recession began, local government employment has fallen by 3 percent, and is still falling. In the equivalent period following the 1990 and 2001 recessions, local government employment grew 7.7 and 5.2 percent. Even following the 1981 recession, by this stage local government employment was up by 1.4 percent…
Without this hidden austerity program, the economy would look very different. If state and local governments had followed the pattern of the previous two recessions, they would have added 1.4 million to 1.9 million jobs and overall unemployment would be 7.0 to 7.3 percent instead of 8.2 percent.”"”"”"”"”"”"”"”"”"”"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/public-sector-austerity-in-one-graph/2012/06/11/gJQAv89NVV_blog.html
Just speaking truth to the lying cons.
USinUK - thug with a uterus ... and former Girl Scout
September 4th, 2012
7:36 am
bman – 7:30 – I bake, therefore I am.
http://redskitchendiaries.wordpress.com/
Doggone/GA
September 4th, 2012
7:37 am
“I’m more of an acolyte of the “if duct tape doesn’t fix it, WD-40 will”
I like this one: you only need 2 things in life, duct tape and WD40. If it moves, and it shouldn’t – use duct tape. If it doesn’t move, and it should – use WD40
skydog
September 4th, 2012
7:38 am
I was in a meeting with about 20 people on a P&G job. I told the group we had manhole # 6 ready for inspection. This P&G guy interrupts and says, “we don`t use that term around here, we use access ways, mr sky dog”. OK
Later I told them we had expended 200 man-hours on this portion of the project. The guy interrupts and says, “we don`t use man-hours mr dog, we use effort hours”.
Next I need to tell them I need some female 90 degree elbows. They let that one go, because there are no other words for this item.
Last I tell them the “peckerhead” on one of the motors came in broken.(the hump on big motors) “No, we use motor entry access way, mr. dog”.
AT this point I`m thinking, YOU are a motor entry access way.
bman
September 4th, 2012
7:40 am
USinUK .. .. I’m going to try that apple cake this week. I’ll find a place to post some photos and let you know how people like it !
Jerome Horwitz
September 4th, 2012
7:42 am
USinUK – You’re a ‘Spurs fan? How do you feel about the addition of Clint D? Best guy on the US National Team!
USinUK - thug with a uterus ... and former Girl Scout
September 4th, 2012
7:44 am
bman – I’m giving it a rest for a while, then making it again around Christmas – think it will be a perfect alternative to all the chocolate and other heavier foods
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
September 4th, 2012
7:45 am
Romney bounce?
More like a bounced check!
Returned NSF
Non Sufficient Facts.
USinUK - thug with a uterus ... and former Girl Scout
September 4th, 2012
7:48 am
Hi Jerome!
I’m just waiting to see what’s going to happen this year after the management shake-up. I always liked Harry Redknapp, so we’ll see what Villas-Boas has to say for himself …
Skip
September 4th, 2012
7:50 am
If you want to make money do eggs and grits, if you want to look good while going broke do dinner.
skydog
September 4th, 2012
7:55 am
bman – I almost bought this place couple of years ago. When it first opened 12 years ago, this lady who was a retired airline pilot had it rolling, you could not get in the place on weekends.
She had health problems and sold it to a guy who didn`t know good music and it died on the vine.
They had it listed at $120,000 and $1050 rent. Then $65, 0000 + rent. Then $45,000 + rent. Then, make offer, some owner financing.
The new owners seem to have it rolling again. It is a fun place to see live music in Marietta.
http://darwinsburgers.com
bman
September 4th, 2012
7:56 am
Skip.. .. stop trying to scare people lol
USinUK - thug with a uterus ... and former Girl Scout
September 4th, 2012
7:59 am
A friend of mine is about to open a sammich shop in Chamblee … keeping it simple as he’s new to the game.
skydog
September 4th, 2012
8:04 am
My options right now are Afghanistan or Mongolia. I don`t like bullets or short horses.
ORDER UP!
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September 4th, 2012
7:56 pm
Finally, a CBS writer tells the truth about Obama that his lying assed ,deceiving, manipulating, cover up kings in mgt have hidden for four years!
CBS’ Scot Paulsen on “2016″ movie!
The Right Politics This past week, “2016: The Movie” about President Barack Obama opened in the Chicago area, and I chose to get more of an education about Obama by seeing the movie. After the inundation of canned hype for the movie on conservative talk shows across the Chicago radio dial that sounded more like commercials than honest endorsements of the movie, I was skeptical of what I was going to see. While some talk show hosts sounded like they were genuinely impressed with the documentary and honestly endorsing the film, there were those who were obviously reading a commercial script which was not coming across as sincere to the regular listener – at least not to this often-skeptical listener. Perhaps, in future promotions of the film, it would be wise to have pre-recorded commercials done by the professional commercial-makers rather than having the likes of Mark Levin and Sean Hannity doing script after script to promote the movie. After all, the listeners aren’t stupid and resent any attempt at being conned. After many reads by the talk show hosts, the readings of the commercial script were no more enthusiastic than another Life-Lock commercial read – another commercial that ought to be professionally done. Yet, I’m glad I saw the hyped-film because it was more informative than I had thought it would be and included less propaganda than I had predicted. If anything, it was nearly too informative as there was an enormous amount of information condensed into the nearly one-hour-and-a-half documentary. Fact after fact is put forth which shows that President Obama definitely has many skeletons in the closet that have not been released prior to the nation’s trust in him with the Oval Office. To watch this movie and realize – or simply be reminded of – all that is unknown about President Obama is of concern. Much of the information has been ignored by the American media totally. When appropriately reminded as to what is still unknown about Obama to date, one has to ask: How can any logical-thinking person give a damn about Romney’s taxes while not asking any questions regarding our current president’s past? The man influences the entire globe, but liberal Americans want to know how much Mitt Romney paid in taxes in the past rather than learn about the man who they have entrusted with the country. Unbelievable. The movie undeniably links Obama to persons of suspicious-interest due to their past actions and statements, such as former radical activist and Chicago educator Bill Ayers. While the media and blinded-liberals cast such facts aside, the movie does not. No, this portion of the movie is not propaganda – it is the display of factual information about relationships between people that cannot be denied. Yet, the “left” does deny the facts that are right in front of them. Quite disturbing is the talk of the United States economy in the film. The current national debt which has increased two-fold during Obama’s presidency and the horrendous economy is suggested to be part of the plan to strip the nation of democracy – reasonable cause to make citizens totally dependent on the government. The “left” is aghast at this suggestion of the current economy. They actually believe that Obama is unintelligent enough to let this economy just happen. Ironically, it’s many of the people on the “right” who know Obama’s not stupid, and much of what has happened to the United States in the past four years is part of Obama’s plan. How could one so-highly educated and intelligent as Obama not know what he was doing when he incurred such debt? I left the movie thinking more strongly than I had in the past that the current debt and this economy was part of Obama’s plan all along. Increasingly making Americans dependent on the government is the plan. What’s more, he knew his blind followers would believe it was not the plan and, of course, was all Bush’s fault. He must be laughing at his blind followers all the way to the “new America ” they’re allowing him to create. My belief is that Obama continues to prey on his die-hard followers’ stupidity to accomplish his personal goals for America. The most disturbing part of the film to me was the interview with President Obama’s half-brother George Obama from Nairobi, Kenya . How can Obama claim to want to help people when he has done absolutely nothing for his own family? It makes me wonder if he really cares about anybody if he can’t find it in his heart to help his own family. As the closing credits started to role upward across the screen, the audience applauded. Me, I just walked out – reasonably upset. Those who have already decided to vote for Obama will probably not even see the movie. It’s sad but they probably don’t want to know the truth when it is laid out so clearly for them in this documentary. The independents who are still deciding who they are going to vote for ought to see this film. I’m quite confident that any undecided voter who sees this film will know who to vote for after viewing this documentary.
If you know you’re not going to support the “left” in this coming election, see the film out of interest if you like. But, fair warning, it’s disturbing – and quite frightening – to say the least.
About Scott Paulson Scott Paulsonwrites political news and commentary for CBS Local and Examiner.com and teaches English at a community college in the Chicago area. The views and opinions expressed in this post are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of CBS Local
T
September 6th, 2012
2:20 pm
Jay, has your position on this changed since it has been made known that the White House has influenced Gallup’s poll therefore rendering a bias poll with no truth to it? Or how about the fact that in most of the polls more Democrats are being polled than Republicans which skews the numbers as well. The truth will come out in November one way or another.
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