Will Mitt Romney Get a Boost from the Convention?
by Bryan Schott
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What it did mainly was help energized some of the Republicans that don't trust Romney

There's a boost, as has been the case historically. The bigger question will be does that boost sustain them in swing states and move undecideds to the Republican ticket? I

I was there at the convention and the enthusiasm was electric. The momentum from this will continue to election day.

Many of the party faithful will be tuned into the convention, Romney will see an increase in support that the Republicans were hoping for however how that increase is parlayed remains to be seen. The average citizen has not given the convention the attention that would push Romney over the top in and of its self.

A temporary boost in the polls.

GOP Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney will get a modest boost from the Republican Convention because it's the nature of such gathering amid the media spotlight. 

Beyond "Obama's a failure" the Republican theme this year is an incoherent mess.

A minor ephemeral boost to be followed by the same for Pres Obama next week.

The vast majority of Americans have already made up their minds about this election and who they'll be supporting. Now they are just looking for confirmation that they made the right choice. Unless something crazy happens in the convention, it won't make Romney supporters jump ship or Obama supporters suddenly decide they've made a bad decision. There may be a sliver of undecided voters who could be swayed, but these folks are usually so nonpolitical anyway, it's unlikely that they're hanging on every word anyway and probably won’t make up their mind until election day.

A modest but temporary boost.

Ann Romney's speech helped Mitt. I still think Obama will prevail. And Michelle is prettier than Ann. Just sayin'.

Convention will provide a slight boost, but not a lasting one.

PREDICTION: The R&R ticket will have their highest polling numbers the first week of September and glide steadily down from there.

Romney and Co. gets a 3-4 point bump that fades like it always does after a convention.

All depends on the media spin. If the national media behaves like the Tribune they'll spin the convention into a five point drop.

Mitt seems to be getting a little bump already, with national polls now saying they're neck-and-neck. 

The Dems campaign is going to be relentlessly dour, negative, and divisive. It's hard to imagine that it won't suffer in comparison to the positive, hopeful messages coming out of Tampa. They might have better musical acts, though.

In the internet age, too many people are already decided early on. Conventions won't make a big difference anymore.

Doesn't seem to be giving the ticket a 'boost' per se. So in that sense a neutral outcome could actually viewed as a negative. It would depend on how the DNC convention goes.

It will be a modest boost but the Dems will get one also. It will even out.

Constant access to the media and viewers will give him a boost but it may not be long lived.

Their convention will cause the Republicans to rally around the anti-everyone and anti-everything message, but will do nothing to convince the American people that the Republican party represents much more than the white and wealthy.

The party does not walk away unified, however, there will be a noticeable bump as the GOP finally has their official candidate.

Respondents include - 

Fred Adams, Stuart Adams, Jess Agraz, Scott Anderson, Laura Arellano, Patrice Arent, Bette Arial, Neil Ashdown, Bruce Baird, Tom Barberi, Heather Barney, Steve Barth, Jeff Bell, Tom Berggren, Mike Bertelsen, Ron Bigelow, Emily Bingham-Hollingshead, Rob Bishop, Laura Black, Nanci Bockelie, Charles Bradley, Jim Bradley, Ralph Brown, Chris Bleak, Curt Bramble, Joel Briscoe, Ralph Brown, Aaron Browning, Ken Bullock, Ric Cantrell, Maura Carabello, Marty Carpenter, Rebecca Chavez-Houck, Kay Christensen, David Clark, Kim Coleman, Peter Corroon, Tim Cosgrove, Fred Cox, Lew Cramer, Gene Davis, Richard Davis, Brad Daw, Alan Dayton, Margaret Dayton, Mike Deaver, Brad, Dee, Joseph Demma, Jake Dennis, Dan Deuel, Jeff Dixon, Brian Doughty, Carl Downing, Randy Dryer, Susan Duckworth, Donald Dunn, Alan Eastman, Becky Edwards, Scott Ericson, Chase Everton, Jessica Fawson, Janice Fisher, Wendy Fisher, Lorie Fowlke, Ronald Fox, Claire Francis, Ryan Frandsen, Adam Gardiner, Jordan Garn, Ernie Gamonal, Luke Garrott, Dave Gessel, Sheryl Ginsberg, Natalie Gochnour, Robert Grow, Karen Hale, David Hansen, Neil Hansen, Joe Hatch, Jeff Hartley, Dan Hauser, Lynn Hemmingway, Deidre Henderson, Neal Hendrickson, Casey Hill, Lyle Hillyard, Kory Holdaway, Randy Horiuchi, Ben Horsley, Bruce Hough, Scott Howell, Greg Hughes, Miriam Hyde, Allison Isom, Casey Jackson, Eric Jergensen, Mike Jerman, Jonathan Johnson, Michael Jolley, Gordon Jones, Leslie Jones, Pat Jones, Kirk Jowers, Jeremy Keele, Brian King, Scott Konopasek, Steve Kroes, Chris Kyler, Carter Livingston, Fred Lampropoulos, Clark Larsen, Douglas Larson, David Litvack, Larry Lunt, Matt Lyon, Ben McAdams, Daniel McCay, Gayle McKeachnie, JT Martin, Maryann Martindale, Jason Mathis, Bob Mayhew, Karen Mayne, Bret Milburn, Derek Miller, Rob Miller, Ethan Millard, Brett Millburn, Karen Morgan, Jeffery Morton, Mike Mower, Holly Mullen, Wayne Niederhauser, Mike Noel, Randy O'Hara, Ralph Okerlund, James Olsen, Val Oveson, Kelly Patterson, John Pearce, Helen Peters, Karen Peterson, Frank Pignanelli, Becky Pirente, Marie Poulson, Jason Powers, Tami Pyfer, Joe Pyrah, Mike Reberg, Jill Remington Love, Lauren Richards, Holly Richardson, Robin Riggs, James Roberts, Luz Robles, Ross Romero, Carol Sapp, Don Savage, Bryan Schott, Shauna Scott-Bellaccomo, Jay Seegmiller, Jennifer Seelig, Patrick Shea, Randy Shumway, Soren Simonsen, Jeremy Slaughter, Brendan Smith, Brian Somers, Carol Spackman-Moss, Robert Spendlove, Barbara Stallone, Howard Stephenson, David Stringfellow, Mike Styler, Shinika Sykes, Juliette Tennert, Gary Thorup, Kevin Van Tassell, Royce Van Tassel, Doug Thompson, Michael Waddoups, Laura Warburton, Chuck Warren, Christine Watkins, LaVarr Webb, Todd Weiler, Alan West, Mark Wheatley, Larry Wiley, Ted Wilson, Carl Wimmer, Mike Winder, Travis Wood, Thomas Wright, Crystal Young-Otterstrom

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