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Out, this is over 30 days. you moved texas in to the dark red, because you just said it is. but georgia is the same way, right? tennessee, kentucky? >> we have 35 electoral college votes called lean romney, georgia, tennessee, kentucky. they are called that because the last poll we have is some time ago. but i personally think those 35 electoral college votes are in romney's column. if you do that, think about that for a minute. solid obama states 14 of them represent 184 electoral college votes. if you add kentucky, tennessee, georgia, to the 1 states that romney has. you add those states wit...

Of john f. kennedy. robert kennedy was going to speak. johnson was very concerned that the delegates who obviously were tremendous supporters of john kennedy were going to stampede. they were going put him on the ticket maybe replace johnson. certainly replace hubert humpry as runningmate. scheduled convention so nomination took place before. kennedy came on the last night and before he got to speak there was a 22-minute crying, standing ovation. then he gave a beautiful speech. quoting shakespeare about his dead brother and reported later after the tremendous outpouring and the great emotion ...

That didn't work out. we make sure we take advantage of every minute we can be in charlotte. >> republicans may have two other opportunities to drive home very powerful messages that they can use as brackets during the convention. as early as tomorrow, the national debt is expect to top $16 trillion. then there is that all-important jobs report for the month of august that comes out just as the convention ends on friday morning. bret? >> bret: john roberts on the floor. thank you. we're getting mixed signals from the white house about american troops in afghanistan. sunday, press secretary jay...

Good. the second thing i think is not the comparison to mitt romney, the comparison to obama in 2008. that was a magic convention, today i reread obama speech in 2008. when he accepted it in the big football stadium and greek columns. it was hope and change and new fresh face on the political scene. he is not that anymore. it will be harder. two talked about the conventions you have covered. and you covered 35. bring us back to interesting moments. >> sometimes things happen in convention that a speech will be given and moment will occur. at the time, in the period thereafter. the speech will ...

Strongest star in the party. that is bill clinton. so we have seen advertisements already playing in battleground states across the country from president clinton. that is a snapshot of what i'm told we are going to hear at the speech wednesday night. he is trying to, you know, inspire some of the people who are long for the days of clinton. he is also trying to amplify this message that president obama struggled with. if you elect romney, you will be sort of reversing things instead of going forward. the odd thing is the person making the arguement is from the back as opposed to forward. a we...