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We meet with the Kansas FFA Chapter President about what she is looking forward to and why they chose this years theme.

>> reporter: and he made a sales pitch. >> after four years of getting the runaround, america needs a turnaround, and the man for the job is governor mitt romney. >> reporter: ryan served up the red meat conservatives want to hear. >> ladies and gentlemen, these past four years, we had suffered no shot aj of words in the white house. what is missing is leadership in the white house! >> reporter: mitt romney is struggling against voter perceptions he is looking out for the wealthy over the middle...

Turnaround, and the man for the job is governor mitt romney. >> reporter: ryan served up the red meat that conservatives want to hear. >> ladies and gentlemen, these past four years, we had suffered no shortage of words in the white house. what is missing is leadership in the white house! >> reporter: mitt romney is struggling against voter perceptions he is looking out for the wealthy over the middle class. ryan tried to address those concerns. >> we have a plan for a stronger middle class, wit...

Heavy rain into much of the state of louisiana. through gulfport, mississippi, up towards northern louisiana, and we are talking about storm totals in excess of 12-18 inches. this will test the city of new orleans and folks across mississippi as well. dont want to leave those folks out. very vulnerable coastline from louisiana to mississippi and alabama. back to you, megyn. megyn: megyn: new questions about the rncs convention theme, "we built it." thats the theme playing on the infamous "you di...

Is embracing that beginning with this op-ed piece in the journal. >> you said biography is important for mitt romney but how important is specificity about what he wants to do, take the country, what direction he wants to take the country in, in that speech? >> yeah. i think its a big part of it. i think the speech accomplishes a lot of things in front of, you know, tens of millions of people, jonathan. i think what they want to start -- youve seen something clear from this team. they dont want ...

That shall we? nobel laureate paul krugman of princeton, new jersey, writes this in his "new york times" column today. "christie has told reporters that he wont use the term jersey comeback in his keynote address, and its not hard to see why. the comeback, such as it was, has hit the skids. indeed, the latest figures show his state with the fourth highest unemployment rate in the nation. im sure he wont mention that either. after all, todays convention theme is, "we did build it." im assuming th...