We've seen from PPP that the Republican National Convention registered no bounce for Romney-Ryan in Florida and North Carolina, and we've also seen that Romney's convention speech drew the worst ratings of any Republican nominee ever since Gallup began asking the question back in 1996. Worse even than Bob Dole's in '96, which was such a dud it gave birth to Clinton's winning slogan that year...
Now we have the Gallup tracker reporting no bounce nationally as a result of the GOP convention. From USA Today's reporting on the poll:
"We have been monitoring the potential impact of the Republican convention on the presidential race on a day-by-day basis," writes Gallup's editor-in-chief Frank Newport. "So far, we don't see an impact."
It could be just that voters' intentions are already set in stone and that nothing the parties can do at this point will change their minds. Or, it could just be that folks didn't find convincing a convention based on a lie, a Veep nominee's speech full of lies, and an old man railing against a chair...