Gallup: Mitt Romney’s RNC Speech Was Rated the Worst Ever Received by the Public
It’s official, Mitt Romney has given the worst speech that the GOP convention has seen in the last 16 years. According to Gallup, Romney’s recent speech at the convention was the worst-received speech of the eight speeches given by nominees since the company began taking the poll in 1996.
According to Gallup, only 38 percent of viewers rated Romney’s convention speech as good or excellent. President Obama received a 58 percent rating in 2008 and even John McCain came in at 47 percent. Also, more Americans thought that Romney’s speech was poor or terrible than at any point the survey has been taken since the convention in 1996.
Gallup also found that Romney’s speech had almost no impact on how people were going to vote. His “convention bounce” in the polls was a very weak two percent, compared to the 14 percent jump that Obama received in 2008. While conventions don’t have the impact that they once did, any edge can be critical in an election this close.
The Democratic National convention is set to take place in Charlotte this week. This will give Obama an opportunity to pull ahead. Currently, the race is very close, with Obama’s lead being stuck at a slim .1 percent.
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Not surprising. Romney is too staid. I think his wife outdid him here- she was far more compelling- for most of it, anyway. I think even Ryan would have been rated better.
He doesn’t have the appeal of Obama, and sometimes that matters to voters. I am not in any doubt of his abilities as a businessman, but he doesn’t seem to be very charismatic.
To me the most salient point about the Republican candidates is their consistent lying. In addition, their platform is a menu of bias, hatred and discrimination. It doesn’t matter how many women or people of color they parade in front of the electorate, their record tells another story. These people are not to be trusted. They pander to the worst elements of society and care nothing for the least of us, while calling themselves champions of morality. I find it unbelievable that Romney and Ryan are even within striking distance of the president. Yes, the economy sucks, but when the President tried to work with these people to get us back on track, their efforts were on obstructing him at every turn and passing bill after bill restricting women’s access to basic health care. These sanctimonious, hypocritical, fascist, obfuscating, lying clowns deserve to lose and lose big. Hopefully their Greedy Old People party will go down in flames with them.
President Obama has disappointed. There are too many of his election promises which he has failed to adequately address and realize. He seems to have decided that platitudes are actually something that works. His performance in office can rate no more than a 5/10. And that is being generous.
However the alternative to re-electing the President is so much worse. Romney’s stated policy (in his acceptance speech) is to spend more on the military,to create 12 million more jobs, to ensure that the sick and the needy are taken care of (I guess he had to say that to ensure that more than the fat cats voted for him), but NOT to increase taxes. So apart from his charisma deficiencies, his shady tax return record, and his weird religious sect, the one thing which Republicans point to as his strong point, his business acumen, actually does not exist either. Because where is the money coming from? Is that National Debt going to be measured in zillions before his term of office ends?
It’s surely a pre-requisite for a successful businessman to appreciate that spending way more than you’re receiving ensures a high speed road to receivership?
Michael Flannery,
How do you or anyone expect for everything and I mean everything to happen in less than four years when he has to fight the Republicans that are only trying to make him a one term President. You, elf could never do it and then you want to criticize a man that is doing his best for the American people regardless of party, race, gender or whoever you decide you want to marry.
It is difficult for anyone to take on this task, especially when you are left with a country that was in a recession when George Bush left. You cannot do it, nor anyone else that tries can pull the country out in four years and place on his agenda the challenges that have been neglected for eight years in the previous administration.
I will support this President and I feel that he deserves more years to finish what needs to be done to get this country on the right track.
President Obama deserves another chance.
I do not understand why this article was placed at the bottom of this list while other articles that are so less important are placed higher.
We need to stand for something or we will fall for anything.
Michael Flannery has said it all. President Obama is an amaizing man. For him to deal with what he was dealt, plus the republicans who has had a knife in his back all the time, he has to be a great man. But you have to be real, Geroge Bush and Ronal Ragan tryed to make this country a capitalistic country. If we are not careful, we will watch HITLER come alive again, but in this country this time. This election in not a racial war. It is a war between the rich and the poor. Race was only a tool thrown in to devide the country and blind you. If they devide the people, then they can not see what you are doing. But you will feel the inpack when the smoke clears. It is an old game. If you help Ramney, you only have yourselves to blame for the results.