host: if you more minutes with frank newport -- a few more minutes with frank newport. camden, new jersey. roger is a democrat. caller: good morning, how are you doing? host: fine. go ahead with your comment, roger. caller: the reason why i called is because of the -- the -- i'm sorry. i was calling concerning mitt romney. when he first started running, there was a situation where he said -- they asked him a question, and he was talking about -- oh, my god -- they asked him a question, and he said he did that -- his main focus was on the rich, and he did not care about the middle- class, and he was not worried about the poor. i mean, that should be enough to make a decision on who you should vote for, because to me, that guy does not care about this country. he is all about himself. host: any response to that, frank newport? guest: well, this is symptomatic of what happens in the campaigns. that is why in a lot of people don't want to run, because you have video cameras chasing you all day long, and they make lots and lots of speeches and it is all recorded on tape, and

here to take a closer look at that is the gallup editor in chief frank newport. great to see you.fore we figure out if there's a real bounce from this convention. >> clearly through the weekend. with the back-to-back conventions we'll have a counterbalance, so we have a little opportunity to see if romney gained before he start to see if there's a counter balance coming back from the democrats. we want to look over the weekend and through monday morning. >> let's look at where we are right now so we have sort of a baseline. barack obama 47%, mitt romney 46%. this is with what, registered voters? >> that's right. >> and it's been remarkable consistent. >> we have large samples involved here at gallup since april, so we don't see quite the fluctuation that we might see other way. but that's a good thing. that's why we're doing it. very close in and around this 47/46 split since april. it went up the first nights of the convention. >> historically do candidates get a bounce and how much? >> five points. how is that? republicans get five points if you add up all the bounces since barr

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