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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (598911)	8/3/2004 12:12:51 PM
From: JakeStraw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Democratic convention falls flat CONVENTIONAL wisdom held that John Kerry would get a sizable “bounce” in the polls after his Thursday night acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention. It didn’t happen. Kerry and Edwards looked more like Eeyore and Christopher Robin than the ever-bouncing Tigger. While some polls showed that the convention gave Kerry a small bump up, some showed the opposite. A CNN/USA Today poll had Bush over Kerry by 4 percent. Where all the polls did agree was in finding that the public remains evenly divided over the two candidates. The gap between Bush and Kerry has been within the margin of error of most polls for months, and that did not change after a week in which the Democrats spent four days spreading anti-Bush rhetoric through the nation’s airwaves and newspapers without the President making a single rebuttal until the end of the week. For the Democrats, the convention was a terrible investment. Tens of millions of dollars were spent on the event, including about $40 million in taxpayer money for security. And all it bought was a statistically negligible bump in a couple of polls, and possibly even a drop. Even Boston businesses made out better than that. The convention famously cost local businesses millions of dollars in revenue as locals stayed away from the city and attendees spent most of their dinner money inside the FleetCenter. A whole bunch of Democrats came to town, and it cost local businesses money? That should be no surprise. Nor is it surprising that the public got a good, long look at John Kerry and yawn