Indeed, and something that bothers me a bit about the poll on top of that is that from my understanding is that while CNN at least admits that it's biased towards Republicans everytime they bring it up (which Morning Joe just entirely disregarded and treated it like it was a poll of all Americans), but even they don't emphasize enough what the implications of 60% of these people viewing Trump as taking into America in the right direction before his speech really are.
From my understanding, that 60% figure was at the start of the convention. In other words, before Cruz did what he did. So the uptick may not necessarily be even from Trump's speech itself, but the "rally-around-the-flag" sort of effect the Cruz's backstabbing had on people's view of Trump. Obviously, a lot of it did come from the speech, but it's impossible to know how much of it is due to the speech and how much of it was due to Cruz and everything else that happened, especially since Cruz's failure to endorse definitely had a huge effect on the floor and very well could have had that same effect on the people who were polled since they largely are on and the same and we just don't know since there were no polls of these people in between Cruz's speech and Trump's.
That's not something I've even seen CNN talk about at all so far even with all the caveats they bring up every time they bring up the poll, but it's definitely something that should deserve mentioning as well and it's kinda frustrating that they haven't since there's no doubt it at least had some effect and makes those numbers even more shaky and meaningless.
TL;DR-Poll is shit. CNN is shit. Morning Joe is super shit.
