Bush Campaign Expects Small Convention Bounce

[Xipe Totec]

Playing the lowered expectations game again:

By Steve Holland

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush's re-election campaign is lowering expectations for a big bounce in opinion polls from the Republican nominating convention in New York next week.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040822/pl_nm/campaign_convention_dc&cid=615&ncid=2043

[thebigidea]

1. so do we get to endlessly squeak: "lowest bounce since McGovern"?

[Gman]

2. YES WE DO!

[olddem43]

3. Let's hope for a negative "bounce" -

like the idiot's numbers falling off a cliff. I keep thinking that we are going to reach a tipping point soon, where the coming landslide is apparent. There are at least 7 Electoral Vote prediction websites and all show a big Kerry victory. Some of these are even Republican sites.

[LiberalFighter]

9. That is what I am hoping for...

then EVERYONE needs to talk it up when his bounce is much lower than normal for a sitting president.

[are_we_united_yet]

10. I'll settle for a thud n/t

Edit: can't type

[iconoclastic cat]

4. I thought we were supposed to publicly expect a "huge bounce"!

Raising (hopeless) expectations for Bush and such, I thought.

[Mountainman]

5. The only thing I'm waiting to see re: this convention is if the whores

will let Dems critique Bush's speech and the convention as a whole like they had Repuks critiquing Kerry's speech and the DNC.

[rustydog]

6. Mr. "C" student is the King of low expectations and profiting from them

If his campaign keeps spewing that they expect a low bounce, they can then be greatly surprised if Bush gets a lead on Kerry subsequent to the fiasco in NYC.

[Frances]

7. If Bush doesn't get a !5% bounce, will the pundits

tell us how bad the convention was--over and over and over?

[TheDonkey]

8. Yet now they say Kerry is down because these smearboat ads

andit has erased his bounce...

I thought he didn't get a bounce how is he still in the lead?

*sigh*

[klook]

11. Bush should get a 25% bounce after the convention

1. 5% - Reagan nostalgia compels undecided Americans to "win one for the Gipper."
   
2. 5% - Giuliani fever.
   
3. 5% - McCain fever.
   
4. 10% - Thousands of Republican prayers answered. We know God likes the Republicans best.
   

Anything less than a 25% bounce will be an utter failure.

[gratuitous]

Duplicate posting

How the heck did that happen?

[gratuitous]

12. Now you're talking!

A minimum 25% bounce in the polls, or the convention was a miserable failure.

[Democat]

13. The media reported the Republicans spin only before both conventions

What the fuck?

They reported the Bush spin on the Democratic Convention and now on the Republican Convention.

Where is the other side of the story?

[CO Liberal]

14. This Is The Only Bounce He'll Get

Source: http://www.usahardware.com/

[yellowcanine]

15. Bush will get a dead cat bounce in November.

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[democrat_patriot]

16. Didn't they say: Kerry will get a LARGE bounce?

They being repukes?

So if it was 5 points or so, it was 'lower than expected'?

[The_Casual_Observer]

17. Bounce his ass out of the wh

Held by the scruff of the neck and seat of the pants.