After the Democratic National Convention, which featured representatives such as former President Bill Clinton and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, President Barack Obama may have won over more Americans’ votes, according to a Gallup poll released on Monday.
Forty-three percent of Americans said the coverage they witnessed of the DNC made them more likely to vote for Obama, according to the poll.
Additionally, Obama’s job-approval rating now stands at 50 percent, up from 45 percent before the DNC. The percentage of Americans that identify or lean Democratic is up to 48 percent from 43 percent before the convention.
Obama, who is known for his oratory skills, was also rated better in his nomination acceptance speech than Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
Forty-three percent of Americans marked Obama’s speech as “excellent” or “good,” according to the Gallup poll. Thirty-eight percent of Americans gave Romney’s speech the same marks.
Obama did not perform as well with the American public as he did with his 2008 speech at the DNC in Denver, where he garnered a 58-percent approval rating for his speech, the highest ever recorded in Gallup polls.
Obama was slightly overshadowed by Clinton’s keynote speech last Wednesday night. Clinton’s speech received an “excellent” rating by 34 percent of Americans, a similar appraisal to Obama’s 2008 speech.
The public paid slightly more attention to the DNC than the Republican National Convention, Gallup reports.
But the RNC generated some big news out of Clint Eastwood’s surprise speech on primetime, in which he spoke to an empty chair as if Obama were sitting in it.
Another CNN and ORC International poll released on Monday shows Obama with an 8-percent lead over Romney in registered voters likely to vote for him.
As another sign of hope for the incumbent president, Obama’s campaign manager Jim Messina said in an email to supporters on Monday that the Obama campaign outraised the Romney campaign in August, with $114 million versus Romney’s $111 million.
“After three straight months of getting beat — and not by a small margin — more than 1,170,000 supporters made a donation to close the gap,” Messina said in the email. “We can’t let up for one second.”
Members of the Boston University community said Obama would win reelection.
“I saw Obama speak at the DNC. I thought he did a good job,” said Caroline Richard, a freshman in the College of General Studies. “He’s a really good speaker and really engaging, which is important, and I especially liked what he said about education and student loans. I think he will win the election over Romney.”
College of Arts and Sciences junior Melissa Chisholm said she did not get to watch either of the conventions, but heard the Republican one “was a disaster.”
“I’m hoping Obama sticks it out and wins the election,” she said.
Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences junior Grace Choi said Obama would win.
“I hope he wins because he needs to complete what he started,” she said.
College of Communication freshman Andrew Velichansky said even though the DNC was not perfect, Obama would still win.
“Joe Biden gave one of the worst speeches I’ve ever seen by a politician,” he said. “But I don’t think it will hurt Obama’s chances, I still think he’ll win the election.”
Hannah Johnson contributed to the reporting of this article.
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