Day Three Of The Republican Convention Got A Little Wild

Pence made an obligatory jab at the media, saying that the press would do “half the work” for Clinton in her race against Trump/Pence. But an analysis by Harvard’s Shorenstein Center of coverage from January to June, during the primary season, found that Trump fared far better in both quantity and favorability of media coverage than Clinton.

I don’t know if you could hear it on television, but a portion of the crowd just erupted with “lock her up!” Pence, unlike other speakers, ignored them.

Part of the reason that Pence may have accepted the vice-presidential nomination is that he wasn’t popular as governor in Indiana. He had an approval rating of just 40 percent in a Bellwether Research & Consulting poll in May and led his Democratic opponent in this year’s gubernatorial race by just a 40 percent to 36 percent margin.