Boing!

Romney got next to no bounce in the polls from the Republican convention.

Things are looking much better for Obama.

[T]he key to understanding these numbers is to remember that these are tracking polls. So a significant amount of the data in each is from calls prior to the big speeches at the Democratic convention, especially for Gallup which has the longest collection interval. Nate Silver calculates that to get the numbers to move that quickly Obama has likely been up between 7 to 9 points since the Clinton speech.

Nate Silver's comment is important. Silver understands polls better than anyone.