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What a Convention Bounce Looks Like

By The Daily Dish
Aug 15 2008, 4:47 AM ET

Nate Silver crunches the numbers. The gist:

A 6-point convention bounce represents par. If a candidate gets a bounce larger than 6 points, that can be considered to be a good sign. If the bounce is smaller than 6 points, that can be considered to be a bad sign.



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