We don't know yet if this a true McCain surge or a Palin-fuelled convention bounce.
Republicans sought to raise expectations impossibly high, by predicting that he would get a 15% post-convention bounce in the polls.
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Mr Gore's post-convention bounce has not only held up remarkably well across the country, with the candidates neck-and-neck in the polls.
Here to talk about the polls, the electoral map, the running mates and the convention bounce is NPR national political correspondent Mara Liasson.
And though Bush is not doing as well as recent winning incumbent presidents at this point (Nixon, Reagan and Clinton had double-digit leads in late August), the president may still get a post-convention bounce.
Kerry, the party's presumptive nominee, enters the Boston soiree in a virtual tie with President Bush, according to several national polls, and hoping the convention produces a significant poll bounce that will hold through November.
John McCain now seems to have gotten a big bounce out of his convention.
And Obama got a bounce, too, out of his convention, and it faded.
Of course, Mr Gore will get his own post-nomination bounce in the polls after the Democratic convention later in August.
The GOP's successful San Diego convention gave Dole and his running mate Jack Kemp a much-needed bounce in the polls, and Dole's tax cut plan appeared to helping too.
Has the Republican convention and the naming of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate given McCain a bounce in the polls?
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