Day Three Of The Republican Convention Got A Little Wild

We’ve heard many times over the campaign that Trump won a lot of votes during the primary. We just heard it from Pence. Indeed, he did win 14 million votes. Clinton, however, won nearly 17 million. In the last general election, President Obama won nearly 66 million votes. In other words, both Clinton and Trump will need a lot more voters than they got in the primary to win the general election.

As Harry wrote last week, Mike Pence is an extremely conservative choice for VP and could be a smart one for Trump, as the nominee consistently lost to Ted Cruz among very conservative voters during the primaries.

But Pence is still pretty unknown to voters, and at this point, is disliked as far as VP candidates go.

Mike Pence is relatively unknown and disliked

			OPINION OF CANDIDATE
YEAR	PARTY	VP CANDIDATE	FAVORABLE	UNFAVORABLE	NET FAV.	HAVE AN OPINION
1976	D	Walter Mondale	14%	6%	+8	20%
1980	R	George H.W. Bush	25	23	+2	48
1984	D	Geraldine Ferraro	5	2	+3	7
1988	D	Lloyd Bentsen	16	6	+10	22
1988	R	Dan Quayle	24	18	+6	42
1992	D	Al Gore	29	9	+20	38
1996	R	Jack Kemp	33	14	+19	47
2000	D	Joe Lieberman	33	6	+27	39
2000	R	Dick Cheney	29	10	+19	39
2004	D	John Edwards	26	11	+15	37
2008	D	Joe Biden	27	22	+5	49
2008	R	Sarah Palin*	22	9	+13	31
2012	R	Paul Ryan*	25	25	0	49
2016	R	Mike Pence*	9	15	-6	23