Where's Tigger When You Need Him?

Democrats in Self-Destruct Mode CCCXLIV

Boy, was I wrong.

Last Friday, I blogged a prediction:

I might as well go out on a limb here and say that I have a feeling, Faithful Reader, that whatever bump in the polls Kedwards might get from the DNC will (1) be much less than such bumps after past conventions and (2) effectively evaporate by Labor Day.

Little did I know that, from the looks of things right now, I was way, way, way, way, way, way, way too optimistic:

Last week's Democratic convention boosted voters' impressions of John Kerry but failed to give him the expected bump in the head-to-head race against President Bush, a USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll finds....

The change in support was within the poll's margin of error of +/-4 percentage points in the sample of 763 likely voters. But it was nonetheless surprising, the first time since the chaotic Democratic convention in 1972 that a candidate hasn't gained ground during his convention.

USA TODAY extended its survey to Sunday to get a fuller picture of what's happening....

Last week, you know, Don Mischer was broadcast around the world by CNN as he threw a hissy fit from behind the scenes when the balloons & confetti didn't drop after Kerry's speech the way he would have liked them to do. (Mischer has since apologized.) To help to explain why USA Today "extended its survey to Sunday to get a fuller picture of what's happening", here's my synopsis of conversation in newsrooms and editorial boardrooms all across the country since Thursday:

All right, go bump, go bump. We need more bump. Keep going! Come on, guys, let's move it. We need more bump. We want a big bump, goddammit. We want more bump. What's happening to the bump? We need more bump!

Go bump — bump? What's happening bump? There's not enough bump! Big bump, what the hell! There's nothing happening! What the f*** are you guys doing? We want more bump, more bump. More bump. More bump....

Too bad for the Democrats; they needed somebody other than Kedwards & Mischer to help them out:

Oh, the wonderful thing about Tiggers
Is Tiggers are wonderful things
Their tops are made out of rubber
Their bottoms are made out of springs
They're bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy
Fun, Fun, Fun, Fun, Fun!
But the most wonderful thing
      about Tiggers is
I'm the only one
I'm the only one! Prrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Mon. 08/02/04 06:18:11 PM
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