Did Buchanan's 'Culture War' speech help or hurt Bush?

[Frozen Sky Ever Why]

Blamed for Bush's loss repeatedly, Bush did get a small convention base and it was designed to only appeal to the base of the party. My question is, since Clinton didn't campaign against it that much, if at all, did that many people really know or care about it?

[Nym90]

Hurt a little, but overall not much impact. No speech at a convention is ever going to have much effect on the results other than the nominee's speech itself, and even the impact of that is a bit overrated.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Hurt a little, but overall not much impact. No speech at a convention is ever going to have much effect on the results other than the nominee's speech itself, and even the impact of that is a bit overrated.

Hubert Humphrey disagrees.

[Nym90]

Hurt a little, but overall not much impact. No speech at a convention is ever going to have much effect on the results other than the nominee's speech itself, and even the impact of that is a bit overrated.

Hubert Humphrey disagrees.

Riots outside a convention are a little different than speeches inside the convention.

But even then, I don't think the overall impact on the final results was that dramatic.

[Mechaman]

Definitely couldn'tve helped him. Alienating the moderate base in any party is a bad idea, especially if said party already has suffered blows from a souring economy, broke promise about "no new taxes", a strong third party candidacy (which had withdrawn at the time as to not impede "a revitalized Democratic Party), and an opponent who also happened to be a genius campaigner.