One overnight poll, conducted for NBC News, indicated that Mr. Bush's lead over Vice President Al Gore had gone from 6 percentage points to 11. Candidates almost always gain after a convention, and Mr. Teeter, who conducted this poll with Peter Hart, a Democrat, called it "a normal, an average bounce".
Significantly, the same firm that conducted this poll (ARG) had conducted a poll Jan 25-26; Romney had a 22% lead over Santorum in that poll.
It doesn't matter who conducted this poll, where their offices are, or who paid for it.
At the time Gallup conducted this poll, gas prices were sky-high ($3.60/gallon national average for that time), as were Big Oil profits ($120 billion annually).
Because some people will question a poll commissioned by Catholics for Choice, I'm including the methodology description below and will note that during 20 years of working in DC and reading polls on a range of issues from various firms, I have tremendous confidence in the integrity of the firm that conducted this poll.
They didn't conduct poll after poll to figure out Bush's "grade" for handling the spill.
The Equality Trust's aim when conducting the poll was to shine light on this area.
"This is a huge shift from earlier polls," said Dr. Allen, who has conducted the poll for a number of years.
Harris Interactive conducted the poll by telephone from March 22 to 29.
When she asked who was conducting the poll, she said, the caller gave her the number of Charney Research, a firm that conducts polls for Mr. Vallone.
