They didn’t like him, they really didn’t like him
by digby
I don’t know how people will respond to Clinton’s speech but we know how they responded to Trump’s:
Trump’s speech got the least positive reviews of any speech we have tested after the fact: 35% of Americans interviewed last weekend said it was excellent or good. Of the nine previous speeches we have rated, the top one was Barack Obama’s in August 2008, which 58% of Americans rated as excellent or good. The lowest-rated speech other than Trump’s was Mitt Romney’s in 2012, with 38% excellent or good.
It goes on to point out that he received better reviews from people who watched the whole convention which one might assume was Republicans. This is pretty brutal:
Of those who watched very little or none of the convention, 19% rated Trump’s speech as excellent or good.
And this:
The self-reported net impact of the GOP convention was also negative. Overall, 51% of Americans say the convention made them less likely to vote for Trump, while 36% said it made them more likely to vote for him. This is the highest “less likely to vote” percentage for a candidate in the 15 times Gallup has asked this question after a convention. The previous “less likely” high was 38% after both conventions in 2012, and after the GOP conventions in 2004 and 2008.
They pulled out 2004 (barely) but haven’t been too successful since.
We’ll see how Clinton did. Considering polarization and many people’s general loathing of her as a speaker, I won’t be surprised if her numbers aren’t any better. But Trump’s Nuremberg Rally speech didn’t test well at least and that’s a big relief.
Meanwhile, like the emotional 12 year old he is, nothing is ever his fault fault:
After promising a “showbiz” Republican National Convention that would dazzle the American public, Donald Trump shrugged off responsibility for staging it after seeing the higher ratings and production values the Democrats’ convention had to offer this week in Philadelphia.
“I didn’t produce our show — I just showed up for the final speech on Thursday,” Trump told The New York Times in a phone call this week.
Trump actually broke with tradition by making multiple appearances during the Cleveland convention, coming on stage to introduce his wife Melania on the convention’s opening night and appearing onstage with running mate Mike Pence, who followed Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) non-endorsement speech on the convention’s third night.
He also dialed into Bill O’Reilly’s Fox News show while a mother who lost her son in the Benghazi terrorist attacks described her experience on the RNC stage.
The real estate mogul acknowledged these other unannounced appearances but told the Times they didn’t distract from the convention programming because “nobody even knew” he would be making them.
His claim that he had no hand in the convention programming was also eyebrow-raising, given that campaigns typically dictate the speaker roster and many of the RNC speakers had direct ties to Trump. Among those were five members of the Trump family, the manager of Trump Winery and ‘80s sitcom star Scott Baio, who said Trump personally invited him to speak at a campaign fundraiser.
Fun fact: Paul Manafort produced Reagan’s Morning in America convention.
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