candidates, this right now is what the big republican convention bump looks like in the polls. see, this part right here, what that is showing there, that s the day before the republican convention started last week. and then here s the period of the convention. running all the way through today. put this in the category of world s least exciting graphs. also, the world s most imperceptible bounce. blue is obama, red is romney. those are the results from gallup s daily tracking poll. gallup also measures reaction to the convention in terms of what they saw in the convention will make them more likely or less likely to vote for the candidate in question. on that front, that is a net two-point uptick for mr. romney from his convention in terms of people saying they are more or less likely to vote for him after having seen the convention. that net plus two is the lowest recorded impact for any convention from either party since 1984. in terms of mr. romney s speech specifically, which is
have been to democrats. given that, have democrats screwed things up with the unions by putting their convention in charlotte which is an antiunion town and they gave unions the back of the hand when they made the decision to go there over labor objections? there s something to be said for that, and obviously, the calculation that the obama white house had in making it as the site, they saw it as the premiere swing state, our future is winning over states like north carolina where there s changing demographic patterns and we can make inroads to a region in the south where we have been shut out for decades, really generations at the presidential level. that was the calculation. i will be honest with you, i heard when the decision to go to charlotte for the convention was announced, i heard a lot more grumbling, outrage from labor than i m picking up here. for various reasons today, the weather included, i wasn t able to get out as much as i wanted to. but the labor people i have spoke
should the convention have been held in a right to work state, the wr is no, they wish it was elsewhere, they don t get the logic, but when you start asking them, does that translate, are you going to sit on your hands? are the people you know who are back home going to sit on their hands? i m not picking up on that right here. again, these are people that the true believers more so, i guess, but i m not picking up on it here as much as i was a few months ago. steve kornacki, host of the cycle and senior writer for salon. this is going to be fun to cover this. thanks for being with us. still ahead, absolutely nothing at all about paul ryan saying he ran a marathon more than an hour faster than he actually did. there will be nothing further on that on this show because, my god, what can you say about that, seriously? we ll be right back. mom: ready to go to work?
governor of ohio is actually saying our economy is doing kind of great right now because he wants to take the credit for that for himself. he s making that substantive point, but what the crowd thought president obama was going to do there was talk about the most memorable thing that happened at the republican convention. although the romney campaign and the republicans have tried to put a little shine on the clint eastwood disaster, they tried to say in the press how mitt romney personally thought it was a great speech by clint eastwood, it was a real high point for the convention and everybody loved it, when the rnc released their inspirational recap video of the greatest moments of mitt romney s republican convention, had they released the video this week of the highlights, good old clint eastwood s speech did not make the cut. did not make the highlight reel. today and this past weekend are sort of a weird interregnum, over the holiday but between the two conventions. republicans j
an anti-union town, has no unionized hotels, and gave unions the back of the hand when they made the decision to go there over labor objections? there s something to be said for that, and obviously, the cat calculation had and the obama white house had in making it as the site, they saw it as the premiere swing state, our future is winning over states like north carolina where there s changing demographic patterns and we can make inroads to a region in the south where we have been shut out for decades, really almost for generations at the presidential level. that was the calculation. i will be honest with you, i heard when the decision to go to charlotte for the convention was announced, i heard a lot more grumbling, a lot more overoutrage from people than i m picking up here. for various reasons today, the weather included, i wasn t able to get out as much as i wanted to. but the labor people i have spoken to yes, if you ask them, should the convention have been held in a right to w