candidates, this right now is what the big republican convention bump looks like in the polls. see, this part right here, what that is showing there, that's the day before the republican convention started last week. and then here's the period of the convention. running all the way through today. put this in the category of world's least exciting graphs. also, the world's most imperceptible bounce. blue is obama, red is romney. those are the results from gallup's daily tracking poll. gallup also measures reaction to the convention in terms of what they saw in the convention will make them more likely or less likely to vote for the candidate in question. on that front, that is a net two-point uptick for mr. romney from his convention in terms of people saying they are more or less likely to vote for him after having seen the convention. that net plus two is the lowest recorded impact for any convention from either party since 1984. in terms of mr. romney's speech specifically, which is supposed to be the high point of any