Democrats and independents who lean Democratic said the DNC made them more like to support Clinton by a 72-point margin, while Republicans and Republican-leaning independents said the RNC left them more in favor of Trump by a 60-point margin.
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The same trend held for views of both conventions overall: Respondents viewed the Democratic Party more favorably after their convention, 44-42, but they viewed the Republican Party less favorably after the RNC, 35-52.
But those polled did not necessarily agree that it was a positive convention. Add up Hillary’s, Gary Johnson’s, and Jill Stein’s share of the vote across various surveys and you’ll get a number in the ballpark of 50-51 percent.
Donald Trump touts the success of his Republican National Convention, but some voters don’t see it that way.
By that measure, Clinton, with the better-received convention, seems to have received a sizably bigger boost from her party’s convention, as FiveThirtyEight and political data blogger Sam Wang have noted. “At the same time, the 41% of Americans who say they are less likely to vote for Clinton after the party’s convention is among the highest Gallup has measured, while the 14% who said the convention made no difference in their vote or who had no opinion is historically low”, Gallup said.
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Gallup also said that those poll results reflect the way Americans are likely to vote in November during the general election. In fact, pollster Charles Franklin pointed out this week that the DNC marks not only the start of an uptick in Clinton’s favorability but the start of a slide in Trump’s. Simply put, even some of the voters who are now “less likely” to vote for him remain #NeverHillary more so than #NeverTrump. It looked like Trump had done that in the weeks after in, when everyone else dropped out. That spread of 24 points is in line with other recent nominees; Romney’s spread was +22 in 2012, for instance. Thirty-five percent said his speech was excellent or good, 36 percent said it was poor or awful.
