their phrase here is obama isn't working. not only does it quite not make sense on a personal level, it's not enough to wane the campaign, and what they've done is that they've -- as jim said, they brought in the guy with the ideas and the specificity and told him to shut up. >> yeah. >> i predict eventually that paul ryan is going to chafe -- >> i think republicans in the end are going to turn and say, wait a minute, i really had a problem with obama. now i meet this guy. i may have to stick with obama. i think -- wherever you go, that's where you're going to be. i'm not sure everybody wants to be with romney. we'll see. to try to prevent the right wing herd from being spooked, the romney campaign released a memo saying don't get too worked up about the latest polling. while some voters will feel a bit of a sugar high from the conventions, the basic structure of the race has not changed significantly.