host: stan greenberg is our guest for the next 45 minutes.e are opening up the phone lines for your comments. the convention starting tuesday in charlotte -- will you be there? guest: i will. my wife is a member of congress. she is a delicate and i am a devoted spouse. james carville and i do democracy corps. we will participate in other events during the convention. so i will be active and interested but not in the kind of role that i had with president clinton. host: the issue of medicare and the selection of paul ryan -- i will ask your thoughts on the selection of paul ryan and have they changed since the convention wrapped up. guest: i think it makes the paul ryan budget central. i thought it was a very odd speech. it was quite different. it really was dismissive of the president. he spends a lot of time explaining it. even conservative commentators are still speaking about the fact that the speech needed to be forthright. you cannot have a theme on the first night, that we are the truth tellers. host: does that issue come back to haunt

>>stan greenberg offers his reaction to mitt romney's acceptance speech.augh discusses resources for

stan greenberg devoted a book about the middle class. a third of it is devoted to attacking the ryan budget. david, i want to jump to kelly o'donnell, kelly, off little bit more context to how rob portman was informed about the vp selection. >> well, chuck, i have been told that rob portman did receive a phone call from governor romney tonight letting him know that he would not be the choice. rob portman will go ahead with what he had planned to do on saturday, which is to ride in a bicycle race to benefit cancer research. portman, much like ryan, is an avid athlete and this has been something he has had on his schedule for quite some time. now, having talked to rob portman quite a bit covering him on the hill, one of the things he has said is he'll work as hard for mitt romney in ohio whether he's on the ticket or not. believing that for any republican a win in ohio is a must-have in order to win the white house. you know the history there. and ohio is critical. portman was in part considered a likely choice because he has done so well

"washingtonorning's journal," stan greenberg's reaction to mitt romney's acceptance speech.llbaugh discusses the emergency resources on the federal level. and frnak newport talks about the attitudes of undecided voters. 7:00 eastern on c-span. >> c-span's gavel-to-gavel convention coverage continues next week with the democrats in north carolina. every speech live on c-span, c- span radio and online at c- span.org. >> so many of the problems we re about a back to how we raise our children. we either get back to the path of building our children the way we know how or we will keep building jails in america. it is time to stop building jails and america and get back to the path of building our children. >> an alternate delegate. my first convention. i am voting for romney. >> the survey delegate from delaware. these are my doctors. i want to participate in the process. i want to vote for my candidate mitt romney. >> most important issue is the issue of debt. debt is a time bomb waiting to blow up and destroy us. we have to deal with it. >> connect with other viewers with twitt

host: stan greenberg is our guest for the next 45 minutes. we are opening up the phone lines for your comments. the convention starting tuesday in charlotte -- will you be there? guest: i will. my wife is a member of congress. she is a delegate and i am a devoted spouse. james carville and i do democracy corps. we will participate in other events during the convention. so i will be active and interested but not in the kind of role that i had with president clinton. host: the issue of medicare and the selection of paul ryan -- i will ask your thoughts on the selection of paul ryan and have they changed since the convention wrapped up. guest: i think it makes the paul ryan budget central. i thought it was a very odd speech. it was quite different. it really was dismissive of the president. he spends a lot of time explaining it. even conservative commentators are still speaking about the fact that the speech needed to be forthright. you cannot have a theme on the first night, that we are the truth tellers. host: does that issue come back to haun