Alex Witt was soooo full of glee this a.m. after

[monmouth]

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the convention. I think it was Reuters, I had to turn her off..cannot stand her cheerleading for rmoney. One of the panel members said wait two weeks and see if it sticks after the Democratic convention. She had a sad...pfft.

[Atman]

1. I genuinely don't understand why she has a show.

She is a horrible interviewer, she has a grating personality, she isn't very knowledgable about anything, and her show seems to have no purpose other than fill time. It must be sad to have been there for so many years and still being relegated to open up shop on weekend mornings.

[madrchsod]

7. well it`s saturday morning and.....

99.9% of the american voting public is`t watching her show.

well.. according to youtube geeks she has great legs...

[bigdarryl]

16. Alex is a fine white girl and I love me some white girls LOL LOL

[woawoa]

2. Spam deleted by hlthe2b (MIR Team)

[Tom Rinaldo]

3. Bump in "viewed favorably", not in "plan to vote for"

Supposedly Romney got a 5 point bump ]in his favorability rating. That is highly plausible and doesn't even mean that those voters who now see him more favorably will now lean toward voting for him. Heck, some of them may have leaned toward voting for him before anyway but finally now see him more favorably.

And no way does that translate into an overall 5 point voter bump.

[monmouth]

4. Thanks, that brought me down a bit. I think it was her joy that annoyed me so much..n/t

[progressivebydesign]

9. THANK YOU. It's not a REAL bounce! people have been throwing around that 5 point thing

I knew that it was not about the polls....

And the people that suddenly viewed him more favorably, are people that watched the Convention, which were most likely republicans, because most people with intelligence couldn't stomach it.

[Heather MC]

5. They Spent all that money for a 5pt bump????

they should have held their convention at a Hampton Inn, off I95 and just had someone with a cellphone camera video it for a 5pt bump

[progressivebydesign]

10. It's not even a TRUE bump. It's a bump in favorability.

Which means that the republicans that watched the convention, or Fox news, don't hate him as much as they used to. lol.

This was NOT a real bump or bounce, but the media isn't really talking about that. NEver have they used a "favorability" measure to describe a bounce, but it's all they have right now.

[Proud liberal 80]

6. Yeah this was a weak bump

And Romney actually lost ground after his speech 44-42 now 44-43.
http://www.ipsos-na.com/news-polls/pressrelease.aspx?id=5743
But obviously the media is going to spin this as a positive for Romney and a bad sign for Obama. Then next week after Obama gets a larger bump than Romney got, the media will spin it to why wasn't it a larger bump and a bad sign for Obama

[tjdee]

8. Who has a list of recent bumps in history?

I saw a chart somewhere and don't know where.

[woolldog]

12. On nate silver's blog

[tjdee]

14. Thank you :) nt

[Jennicut]

15. The bumps get smaller as time goes as as less people watch the conventions.

I think these bumps will be non existent for either party in the coming years.

[Hippo_Tron]

20. I think that's only one factor

There really isn't enough data here and you have to take correlations with a grain of salt. Obama's convention in 2008 got almost as many viewer's as Reagan's in 1980. Yet Reagan got over a 20 point bounce and Obama got less than 2 points. I suspect that's due to the fact that basically everybody in the country already knew who Barack Obama was before the convention in 2008. A combination of the 24 hour cable news shows and ads being run earlier and earlier changes in the landscape. When Reagan had his convention in 1980, there was no internet, no 24 hour cable news, and a lot less money spent on ads. Much of the country was probably hearing Reagan speak for the first time at that convention.

[progressivebydesign]

11. It's not a TRUE jump. It's a 5 point rise in favorability. The True voter polls show no change n/t

[Grammy23]

13. And let us also not forget that this bounce...

in favorability for Romney still leaves him in the "sucks canal water" zone! Even going up by 5 points, his favorability rating is awful and not going to get him to winner status. Thank goodness. And if after all the adulation that was heaped upon him this past week he couldn't get a bounce for how much people "liked him"......there would be no hope of that EVER happening. With complete control of messaging, timing, etc. they SHOULD have been able to improve those numbers and they did. Good for them. Not sure what they will do when he is out on the road and being his usual "charming self" again.....sans propaganda machine telling us all what a wonderful guy he is. Gak.....

[Zoeisright]

17. Alex Twitt is an idiot.

And that bounce is not going to last.

[rufus dog]

18. You should correct the title

It is a 5 point bounce in favorability rating.

[Tarheel_Dem]

19. If you're an honest person, and I have no reason to doubt you are, you'll change your headline....

as others have implored, but that's certainly up to you. JMHO.