New York Times: Where's Kerry's 15-Point Bounce?

You bet we saved a certain article from Thursday's New York Times, the one speculating on how much the Democrat convention would boost John Kerry.

Some pundits had guesstimated a 6-point jump, but the Times quoted President Bush's pollster Matthew Dowd. He noted that "in the five races in the last 30 years in which a challenger went against a sitting president, the average convention bounce was in the neighborhood of 15 percentage points."

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