Republican Convention Has 'Minimal Impact' For Mitt Romney, Poll Suggests
WASHINGTON -- Polling tracking the impact of the Republican convention has been sparse, but on Monday the Gallup Poll weighed in with a new survey showing the convention had only a "minimal impact" on the fortunes of Republican nominee Mitt Romney.
In interviews conducted over the three days since the close of the Republican convention, Gallup found roughly the same number of Americans saying the convention made them more likely to support Republican nominee Mitt Romney (40 percent) as saying it made them less likely to support him (38 percent).
Gallup also found that just 38 percent gave Romney's convention speech an excellent or good rating, "the lowest rating of any of the eight speeches Gallup has tested since Bob Dole's GOP acceptance speech in 1996."
