The voters of Pennsylvania, a central battleground in the presidential election, absorbed the parties’ nominating conventions with varying degrees of attention, writes Dante Chinni for the Wall Street Journal.

Amid the speeches and pageantry on television, interviews with voters found little immediate sign that two weeks of political messages had changed any minds.

The conventions seem to have confirmed voters’ impulses rather than changed them.

At the Willow Grove Park Mall in Abington Township, Amy Ott said she had voted twice for President Barack Obama and intended to back Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

Ott had watched clips of the Democratic convention on YouTube, deeming first lady Michelle Obama’s speech, which focused on social changes in the nation, to be “inspiring.’’

“I don’t think she’s perfect,’’ Ms. Ott, a mother of two, said of Mrs. Clinton. “I don’t think any of them are perfect.”

Michael Disalvia, who was also at the mall, said his mind was made up, as well – he’s voting for Mrs. Clinton. That is why he hadn’t tuned in much to the goings-on at the Democratic convention in Philadelphia.

“My girlfriend wanted to watch yesterday, so unfortunately I had to watch,” he said.

In the mall’s food court, Bill Hadden, a local IT consultant and political independent, said he was undecided on a candidate, but also uninterested. He said he watched bits of both conventions and was unimpressed.

After voting for Obama in 2008, Hadden voted for Libertarian Gary Johnson in 2012, concluding that Obama couldn’t get things accomplished in Washington.

“The problem is the system,’’ he said. “Shows like VEEP may be satire, but they are based on truth. Nobody stands for anything.”

He added: “I’m going to vote, definitely, but I’ll probably vote third party again this year.”

Local Democratic leaders said they feared that disenchantment with the political system would depress voter turnout, hurting their party.

“Both parties have gone astray and missed the changes that are moving the voters this year,’’ said Joe Foster, Democratic Party chairman in Montgomery County.

Click here to read more in the Wall Street Journal of what Pennsylvania voters had to say in the aftermath of the conventions.