I’m just catching up on stuff this morning. It’s 7:00 AM here so don’t give me a hard time about getting a late start. Anyway, I’ve just read the summary on Kerry’s convention “bounce” over at the Hotline (excessive fee, registration and kidney required). I’d heard references to it on the Sunday shows (thank you C-Span radio), but the CNN-USAToday-Gallup poll actually has Kerry losing ground post convention. The Newsweek poll has Kerry gaining, but without having seen the details of that one let me just say in general that Newsweek’s polling tends to be very unreliable. We knew that July was a bad month for the Kerry campaign, but to actually lose ground when the convention is supposed to bounce you like flubber is really astounding. The old phrase “even a dead cat bounces” has to be revised. Sometimes the cat can be so leaden it goes through the floor.