Gallup: Romney's RNC Speech Polled Worse Than Any Since 1996

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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's acceptance speech before last week's Republican National Convention generated the lowest approval rating among surveyed adults since Gallup began polling this question in 1996.

38 percent of respondents in Gallup's poll rated Romney's speech as 'excellent' or 'good.' 10 percent of respondents rated Romney's speech as being 'terrible.'

In contrast, 47 percent said the same of Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and his 2008 GOP convention acceptance speech. Only 5 percent said McCain's speech was 'terrible.'

President Barack Obama's 2008 acceptance speech in Denver, Colorado, was the most well received of all speeches since 1996. 58 percent of respondents rated his speech as 'excellent' or 'good' while only 7 percent found it to be 'poor' or 'terrible.'

Gallup's telephone survey was taken between August 31 and September 1, 2012, of 1,045 adults. The survey has a +/- 4.0 percent margin of error.

h/t Gallup

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• Color me unsurprised. Eastwood's empty chair could have told us this.

• The guy is gonna repeal his own health care plan. what more can one say?

  You know its bad when three days after your speech they are still talking about a guy and a chair. 

• 38% out of what? 100%? I thought the speech was kinda recycle from every campaign tour speech. Besides whats wrong with wanting to heal the planet? we live in this planet and I m sure christian God wants us to heal the Earth.

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• Which backs up the Gallup tracking poll that showed no convention bounce at all.

  http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2012/09/gallup-no-convention-bounce-for-romney/1#.UETfoLPyYn8 

• Obama is speeched out. He's just background noise and the thinking public tunes him out.

  Romney did great and Clint did a lot of damage to King Obama.

  'Here was our favorite line from Mitt Romney's convention speech: 'President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and to heal the planet. My promise is to help you and your family.'

  http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443618604577623353358084444.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_MIDDLETopOpinion

• Fingers-in-his-ears Donahue.

  The post was about Romney, doofus.

• Basically static.  http://macsmind.com/wordpress/2012/09/ppp-poll-on-romney-an-outlier-uses-a-d13-sample-pay-no-attention-to-polls-until-after-the-dnc-convention/