colorado and obviously they would be more prepared for it? reporter: hi there, thomas. i tweeted a picture of the folks waiting to get in to see paul ryan who will speak here in about two hour s time. they gave away 3500 tickets and it doesn t seem like they can sit 3500 people. there s a lot of excitement around paul ryan ever since announcement on saturday morning. you saw what happened there yesterday in iowa. i looked at the crowd yesterday in iowa and saw a lot of people wearing shirts about two hours before he was supposed to speak there supporting unions. i thought, this doesn t seem like republicans. today he s going to talk about energy which is a big topic here in colorado being one of the states on the leading edge of alternative energy and providing other sources to fuel. mitt romney has been talking about. he talks about five plans that he and paul ryan will put into place to get this country turned around. energy is the number one item on