… Convention bounces are sometimes described as sugar highs, providing a sudden jolt, often followed swiftly by a crash. Pollsters caution they shouldn’t be given too much weight because surveys taken around the conventions can be skewed.
“It’s a very noisy time in polling, especially during the next six weeks,” said John Della Volpe, director of polling at the Harvard University Institute of Politics. “I’m more interested in looking at the internals of the polling and less the horse race until we get closer to Labor Day.”
To the candidates, on the other hand, a good post-convention polling number is useful indeed—they can brag about it. CONT.
John McCormick, Bloomberg Politics