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...USAT and WSJ all handle the lack of suspense in different ways, but the imminent GOP lovefest tops - and is splashed across - all papers. NYT and WP go with drumbeat stories, arriving in Philly with Dick Cheney and recounting, like barflies back from a vacation, what a strange trip the last day has been...
...related poll released Wednesday, only 19 percent of voters nationwide were able to say when the GOP convention would be held...
...lack of public awareness of the GOP convention date, Ortiz laid the blame squarely on the public...
...considering that a typical post-convention bounce is 6 to 10 percent, and that Bush - after choosing a running mate hardly designed to win many new converts - hasn't even left for Philadelphia yet. Bounces come when big political headlines awaken sleeping voters. The GOP hopes that with a majority still telling pollsters they've given "little or no thought" to November, a four-day, sheathed-dagger infomercial in the City of Brotherly Love will make a lasting first impression. The announcement may be over, but the unveiling is yet to come...
...also may have fumbled his chance to offer undecideds what they just might crave. Not Reagan/Bush, not Clinton/Gore, but again, something different. In their sniping at Cheney, the Gore camp is trumpeting the GOP ticket's apparent tent shrinkage - and then signaling that the veep may go left with his own running mate. Base against base. Labor against management. Poor against rich...