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Think, we will see. other big things we heard were bank earns, jpmorgan and wells fargo, you can expect to see the financials trading higher today. chuck, i will send it back to you, happy 193th of friday. >> thank you much. up next, our deep dive into the showdown of '76. could we have had a repeat? not quite now, but the climactic campaign that ended in a floor fight between reagan and ford still provides some lessons for romney from the last time the republican race went all wait to the convention and the last time, ably, conservatives were this unhappy with their nominee. plus the wait...

Republicans can unite and which will lead our party to victory in november. >> but the pick backfired with some supporters, especially in mississippi, whose delegation was sill up for grabs. state party boss clark reed switched his support to ford, giving the president an edge heading into kansas city. as the convention began, both ford and reagan were polling far behind the democratic nominee, jimmy carter. reagan supporters tried to force ford to name his running mate before the first vote but ford won that floor fight and the nomination on the first ballot, beating reagan by 117 goal delega...

America's military power around selling out to the soviet union. >> the policy of day at that time is pursued by the administration is one of making preemptive concessions by theself yet. all i can see is what other nations in the world can see earthquake the collapse of the american will and the retreat of american power. >> we built that thing. we bought the place. we paid for it. and we intend to keep it from here on out. >> the tough talk worked. reagan won north carolina. then he won big in the south and west, including texas, a state

Reagan challenged the unelected sitting president, gerald ford, in the gop grassroots and the establishment. went all the way to the convention in kansas city. a model newt gingrich and rick santorum wish they could have followed even if reagan ended up losing the nomination in a photo finish. things were different back then. '76, the nation reeling from watergate and vietnam, reagan focused on shrinking the federal government and restoring american military power. he first gave president ford a scare by surging in new hampshire forcing ford to campaign hard there ford won by just 1300 votes. ...

To most of americans today. >> when santorum would talk about -- would try to make comparisons to reagan in '76, do it in the last three weeks of the campaign, more so than most. newt did it, he faded, newt gingrich, that is. >> right. right. right r. >> where did you see the parallels and the things that weren't parallel? >> first of all, neither newt gingrich or rick santorum are ronald reagan. >> fair enough. caveat aside. >> mitt romney is not gerald ford in that he doesn't have ford's 30 years in office plus all the powers and perks of the presidency. but there was a -- they were right in...