Captain Ed has details about the bounce--or lack thereof--that Kerry received from the Democratic Convention:

Newsweek did some polling late this week to determine the effect of the convention for John Kerry's candidacy. They report that even using the loosest possible polling for Democrats -- adults, rather than registered voters or likely voters -- that Kerry received the smallest bounce in the history of the Newsweek poll.

Captain Ed also notes:

I'd wait for Pew polling or perhaps another Gallup poll to determine the drift, if any, the convention provided Kerry. Even at that, I would guess that he's already negated much of it with his two stumbles out of the gate on putting Osama on a trial tour and buttonholing the Marines at Wendy's.

More at Power Line.

Meanwhile, Hugh Hewitt notes that President Bush is throwing the pigskin around in the key battleground state of Ohio.

Update: What are the previous post-convention bounces of the men who lost to the incumbent? Interesting post on FreeRepublic.com.

And speaking of Ohio, "The Corner" looks at why Kerry and Edwards and their families were in a Wendy's in the first place.

Another Update:

While Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry and his running mate, John Edwards, and their families were having a “lite” lunch at Wendy’s in the Town of Newburgh Friday, drumming up local support right after the national convention in Boston, their real lunches were waiting on their bus.

A member of the Kerry advance team called Nikola’s Restaurant at the Newburgh Yacht Club the night before and ordered 19 five-star lunches to go that would be picked up at noon Friday. Management at the restaurant, which is operated by CIA graduate chef Michael Dederick, was told the meals would be for the Kerry and Edwards families and actor Ben Affleck who was with them on the tour.

The gourmet meals to go included shrimp vindallo, grilled diver sea scallops, prosciutto, wrapped stuffed chicken, and steak salad. The meals came to about $200.

That sounds much more like John and Teresa's style--which is fine (I certainly can't begrudge anybody liking fine cuisine over hamburgers). But in the battle of the millionaires, Bush pulls off "regular guy" far, far better than Kerry, who inevitably falls on his face when he tries to get out of Boston Brahmin mode.

Just Good Friends of the Last Update: Power Line notes how the polling data in the Newsweek is skewed towards Democrats and asks, "Is anyone aware of an instance in which a member of the elite media has oversampled Republicans in one of these highly promoted presidential horse-race polls?"