The Republican party is imploding. Never before has a convention caused a party’s favorable/unfavorable numbers to go negative. This year’s GOP was negative 17 with 35 percent more favorable after the convention and 52 PERCENT MORE UNFAVORABLE after the convention.
On the other hand the Democratic convention improved their favorability 44 to 42. Clearly we have a disquiet general electorate but a majority was appalled by Trump’s disastrous debut.
The Republican Party got a “convention bounce”... after falling off a cliff. The Democrats did well.Gallup has been polling the conventions this way since 1984. www.gallup.com/...
The results are based on Gallup polls conducted in the days immediately after each party's convention -- the Republican convention in Cleveland from July 18-21 and the Democratic convention in Philadelphia from July 25-28.
Americans' assessments of the effect of the conventions on their image of each party largely mirror their assessments of how the convention will affect their vote in the 2016 election. By 45% to 41%, Americans say they are more rather than less likely to vote for Hillary Clinton based on what they saw or read about the Democratic convention. In contrast, many more Americans said they were less likely (51%) rather than more likely (36%) to vote for Donald Trump as a result of what they saw or read about the Republican convention.
This all happened BEFORE Trump dishonored a gold star family .