26th July 2016, 8:40 PM
Bill';s absolutely superb speech a few hours ago existed to help address some of that mistrust and reverse it. Did you watch? Bill is probably the best public speaker alive today, and has been for a long time now, and this speech is another reminder of just how amazing a speaker he is. He went over the decades he's known Hillary, talking about all the ways she has made things better for people. He discussed her fighting to desegregate schools in the South, improve education in Arkansas, get the children's health insurance bill passed, etc etc, and all in that amazing way he has of speaking, leading up to his core stateemnt that the 'real Hillary' is the one he described, while the 'fake Hillary' is the one the Republicans have created as an invented 'cartoon villain'. Good message there for sure. The speech was apparently partly ad-libbed too, which isn't surprising, but is always cool to hear about.
So, if the polling is again not wrong, we have seen a normal (if maybe a little small) convention bounce for Trump. It's been frustrating to see, as as I said I can't see any appeal whatsoever in his message, but he got that bounce, and it'll go down now as it always does. I like that our convention is second, that's the place you want to be in...
Quote: That poll shows a 20 point swing since you made your last post remarking about the post-convention bump.Look at the polling average, not any one single poll. Trump has gained a few points on Hillary since his convention, but nothing out of the ordinary for a convention bump. And with how well the Democratic convention is going so far, with the good to great speeches last night and Bill's tonight, and with President Obama and Hillary yet to come in the next two days, I think we will see that bump abate quickly.
Quote: Every one of Trump's vanquished opponents thought the same thing.Then they weren't looking at the polls, because ever since last summer polling of the Republican primary campaign was very consistent and mostly accurate: Trump was ahead, by a lot. The polling was not wrong.
So, if the polling is again not wrong, we have seen a normal (if maybe a little small) convention bounce for Trump. It's been frustrating to see, as as I said I can't see any appeal whatsoever in his message, but he got that bounce, and it'll go down now as it always does. I like that our convention is second, that's the place you want to be in...