Republican National Convention Had “Minimal Impact”
By Jane Susskind on 09/04/2012 in DNC, Election 2012, gallup, RNC with 4 CommentsRead Time: < 1 minute
According to the latest from Gallup, last week’s Republican National Convention had “minimal impact” on the voting population in America, with similar numbers reporting to be less likely to vote for candidate Mitt Romney after the RNC, than those reporting to be more likely to vote for him.
When compared to previous Republican conventions, the 2012 RNC had a net impact of +2, the lowest impact since 1984. In 2008, the Democratic Convention was hailed a success, with Democrats generating a net impact of +14, with Obama going on to win the election.
Any predictions on the effectiveness of the Democratic National Convention this year?
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Brandon Fallon
09.04.2012
@bfallon
The RNC seemed to try and improve Romney’s weak spots with women, Blacks, and Hispanics, but those that were listening were already Romney supporters. Women, for example, may feel that Romney cares more for women and has a more robust personality, but I guess Obama’ policies are still more favored by those groups.
Obama is the Great Communicator. He already cracked jokes and summed up the RNC so now he will have a much more formal stage to blast his opponents.
James Maier
09.04.2012
@jamesmaier
Given how they treated Ron Paul, they’re not engendering 8-10% of their primary/voting caucus into voting for Romney. But that’s where (I hope) they will regret it, if they lose in November. Romney didn’t get the bounce he thought he would…
Amanda Le
09.05.2012
@amandale
Looking at the net impact of the conventions throughout the years it seems like the conventions are becoming more and more like an echo chamber- just reinforcing or discussing an otherwise already decided choice.
Dan Richards
09.08.2012
@danrich
Romney gained a 2% lead on Obama after the Convention, going from 44-46% to 47-45%.
I think the Democrat Convention will have an even less impact because there was basically nothing offered. Yes the usual “Me” statements from Obama, but yes there were fewer this time. The bragging on how the job growth has gone, gaining 300,000 private sector jobs, but omitting the 360,00 private sector jobs lost, and most of them gained were part time or lower wage jobs.
Omitting there are more people on welfare then ever since it had started, and most of it is Obama’s fault.
His continued whining about it being Bush’s fault, still taking no blame for anything he has done.
I feel these and other points will cause the Democrats to have an even less effect than the Republicans.
But back to the Republicans, their’s was not great either, especially after the gaff by the media that showed so many of misquotes that in fact were not misquotes, but poorly researched blunders by the fact checking group, and the media not checking to verify these statements. Then the light approach to everything, focusing mostly on Romney’s personal life to show what type of man he was. A little was said about what his plans were, like the Economy plan was talked about, and few others.