MRC’s Brent Baker reports today that four years ago, on the Monday after the Democratic convention, August 21, CBS Evening News anchor Bob Schieffer introduced a full story by trumpeting how “a CBS News poll out tonight shows that Al Gore got a big boost from the Democratic convention. He’s up ten points and is now in a dead heat with George W. Bush.” But this year, after a CBS News poll found no bounce for John Kerry as he held at 49 percent, the CBS Evening News didn’t find their discovery to be newsworthy. Not a syllable about it on Monday’s CBS Evening News, though a Monday

headline on CBSNews.com declared: “CBS Poll: No Bounce for Kerry.”

Also, ABC anchor Elizabeth Vargas passed along last night how an ABC News/Washington Post poll found “one of the smallest bounces for a challenger in 32 years,” but in his story on the poll, Dean Reynolds stressed how Kerry “has gained ground on a number of issues.”