The Obama Bounce

CBS polling saw an increase in Obama's lead from 3 to 8%s. Gallup saw is lead go from 3 to 6%. Rasmussen saw a McCain 1% lead change to an Obama 3% lead. The only minor shift was CNN which saw only a 1% shift.



The CNN poll taken 8/29-31 had 36% rating the speech "Excellent", 28% rating it "Good" while only 7% labeled it "Poor" or "Terrible". The USA Today/Gallup poll had 35% "Excellent" and 23% "Good" as opposed to only 7% "Poor" or "Terrible".



Since the polling was done as the Palin announcement was coming out, this should be consider net of it's effect.