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Has anybody else noticed that unlike the last election, the VP pick this year has completely failed to rally up the base in any significant manner? Again, this isn't all that uncommon for an election but I was expecting Romney's VP pick to actually put Romney on top of Obama for at least week. His (Ryan's) speech has been praised by Republican pundits. The GOP convention has been the talk of political circles and yet no statistically relevant poll bump for Romney anywhere. If you have no idea what I'm talking about:
AFP: Palin bump brings McCain 7 million dollars in a day
VP pick rarely makes a difference in the race | cnsnews.com
Granted, these "bumps" are considered to be "short lived" but I haven't noticed Ryan make that much of a difference for Romney in any field. Maybe evened him up on some polls but the kind of bump that Palin gave McCain is nowhere to be seen this year. Why is this?
AFP: Palin bump brings McCain 7 million dollars in a day
ST. LOUIS, Missouri (AFP) — Republican vice presidential hopeful Sarah Palin proved she could bring in the money as John McCain's campaign raked in seven million dollars in the first day after he announced his historic pick."That's more money than we raised in the fourth quarter of 2007," press secretary Brooke Buchanan told reporters Saturday after campaign donations were tallied. "She's great news."
The campaign raised more than 4.5 million online and 2.3 million by mail and phone in the first day after introducing Palin as McCain's running mate at a standing-room only rally of 15,000 in Dayton, Ohio Friday.
VP pick rarely makes a difference in the race | cnsnews.com
McCain has been roundly criticized for his selection of Palin, a first-term Alaska governor with an affinity for going off script. Palin delighted the conservative base but struggled to show mastery of many policy issues. The bump in the polls McCain enjoyed after rolling out Palin was short-lived, and the Arizona Republican lost by a convincing margin to Barack Obama and Joe Biden, who peddled his own brand of blue-collar politics. But Palin's public stumbles were not likely what lost McCain the election. Rather, it was the economy, whose bottom fell out under a Republican president's watch two months before Election Day.
Granted, these "bumps" are considered to be "short lived" but I haven't noticed Ryan make that much of a difference for Romney in any field. Maybe evened him up on some polls but the kind of bump that Palin gave McCain is nowhere to be seen this year. Why is this?