No bounce for Romney in Florida

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Source: Public Policy Polling

PPP's newest Florida poll, conducted completely after the Republican convention, finds no change in the Presidential race there. Barack Obama leads Mitt Romney 48-47, exactly as he did on our last poll of the state five weeks ago.

The Republican convention being held in Tampa appears to have been a wash. 33% of voters say it made them more likely to vote for Republicans, 33% said it made them less likely to vote for Republicans, and 34% said it didn't make a difference to them either way.

Romney did see a slight bump in his favorability numbers. 49% of voters have a positive opinion of him to 47% with a negative one. That +2 spread is up a net 5 points from late July when his breakdown was 46/49.

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Clint Eastwood's speech may have drawn more attention than anything else that happened at the convention and it didn't go over particularly well with voters. 36% say they have a favorable opinion of his remarks to 41% with a negative opinion. While Eastwood's speech didn't do much to help Romney it doesn't seem to have hurt his own reputation either. 72% of Floridians have a favorable opinion of him to 11% with a negative one and even with Democrats the spread is 58/20. Those are certainly numbers any politician would die for.

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Read more: http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2012/09/no-bounce-for-romney-in-florida.html

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More poll findings:

Romney's favorability rating is worse than any other person who spoke at the RNC in prime time (PPP polled on all of them).

Obama's lead in Florida is due to independents (51-39), non-white voters (63-33), and voters under 45 (54-40). (I'm making a correction of the current PPP report here because there's an obvious typo, with them showing both Obama and Romney ahead with voters over 45. PPP's Twitter feed has the correct information, that Obama leads with voters under 45.) Romney's support comes from whites (54-42) and voters over 45 (53-44).

PPP asked whether Romney should release 12 years of tax returns. 49% thought he should, 41% thought he shouldn't. (IMO, they would have had more people in favor of releasing more tax returns if they hadn't specified 12 years and had instead mentioned a lower number or not specified a number.)

They found, unsurprisingly, that voters in Florida consider Obama a better speaker than Romney, 58-32.