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Daily tracker put him down one point among national voters. the president is coming off whats been deemed a successful convention and jobs report bottom line will result in headlines that say unemployment dropped in august. could those factors add up to a really nice size bounce for president obama that romney missed out on? >> well they could, thomas. i tell the truth, i was surprised that there wasnt even a small bounce for romney. normally conventions produce that. ill be equally surprised if...

Different, jon. there are always political win winds, not necessarily hurricane winds, that create a bounce at a convention. sometimes theres no bounce because a candidate is already too well, like president nixon is this -- in 1972. other times, for example, john kerry in 2004 got zero bounce out of his convention, and it kind of predicted that he would come close but couldnt get over the 50% mark. so thats why we pay attention to the size of the bounce. and it will vary from romney to obama. i...