{"id":16180,"date":"2016-07-29T04:00:45","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T04:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16180"},"modified":"2016-07-29T04:00:45","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T04:00:45","slug":"now-lets-measure-the-bounce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16180","title":{"rendered":"Now … let’s measure the bounce"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Steve Schmidt is a dedicated Republican strategist and smart fellow who helped manage Sen. John McCain’s campaign for the presidency in 2008.<\/p>\n

I believe he has laid out with clarity what American political junkies need to wait for in the next few days.<\/p>\n

It is that Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton needs a significant post-convention “bounce” to put her in a position to make history by becoming the first woman elected president of the United States.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/clintons-pledge-steady-hand-at-moment-of-reckoning\/ar-BBuZdrd?li=BBnb7Kz<\/a><\/p>\n

Schmidt said on MSNBC tonight that Clinton must lead GOP nominee Donald Trump by a large margin by the “middle of next week” or else “Democrats are going to be in trouble.”<\/p>\n

So, we’ll wait for the public opinion surveys that well might tell us where this campaign is heading.<\/p>\n

For my money, I thought Clinton’s acceptance of her party’s nomination did what she wanted it to do. I believe she wanted to cast herself as the anti-Trump. She did continue the brightness vs. darkness theme, painting the country in much\u00a0more vivid\u00a0hues than the Republicans did at their convention this past week.<\/p>\n

Here we go.<\/p>\n

Let’s hold on — with both hands — for what looks like will be a wild ride to the finish.<\/p>\n\n

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