To: Tamsey; Dog Gone
Dog Gone is right IMHO -- over the years the mushy middle has chosen their candidates from conventions and why you see the bumps. Sometimes the mushy middle changes and likes the 2nd convention better then the first.
Thus, we have Rudy (great speaker) and Arnold (very popular) speaking.
If the base isn't already fired up, especially this time, a convention is not going to help. Didn't help me get fired up with Dole! The base is meant to get fired up by VP Cheney and Pres Bush not other speakers as they give their speeches and then leave the convention on a campaign swing. The last night is for the base IMHO!
28 posted on
07/12/2004 9:37:58 PM PDT by
PhiKapMom
(AOII Mom -- Oklahoma is Reagan Country and now Bush Country -- Win Another One for the Gipper!)
To: PhiKapMom
No one watches the conventions. That's why the ratings are so low. Aside from it being one big infomercial that is basically used for internal purposes, the conventions have little if any influence on the undecided voters. For a few days people are subjected to media accounts from the conventions and the storylines are splashed on TV and in rags and mags. Aside form the party loyalists and politcal junkies, most folks turn away. They're not interested. Bottomline. Just like VP bumps, convention bumps don't matter much in the long run. What happens in the roughly two months after the conventions and leading up to the election itself, does matters a whole lot. That's when the elections are decided. Slugging it out, in the closing weeks on the road with the excitement of the campaign rallies, stump speeches and general ballyhoo.
39 posted on
07/12/2004 10:07:53 PM PDT by
Reagan Man
(.....................................................The Choice is Clear....... Re-elect BUSH-CHENEY)
To: PhiKapMom
Forgot to throw in the debates. They are significant and influencial in people making a final determination on who they'll vote for in the end.
40 posted on
07/12/2004 10:11:17 PM PDT by
Reagan Man
(.....................................................The Choice is Clear....... Re-elect BUSH-CHENEY)
To: PhiKapMom
"Greater love than this hath no man than that he lay down his life for his friend. Here were 19-year-old boys ready to lay down their lives to stop a mob from molesting old people they did not even know. And as they took back the streets of LA, block by block, so we must take back our cities, and take back our culture, and take back our country. " --- Buchanan speech, 92
Was it this passage that made you gag? Hillary didn't like it either. Real conservatives loved it.
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