TIME Staff

Greetings from Tampa, where the forecast calls for rain and all the Republican Convention coverage your eyeballs can handle.

• How conventions can affect the race.
• The organizers should emulate reality TV.
• Ron Paul’s last rally.

• Romney tells his own Bain Capital story.
• Gawker dumps documents on his family trusts.
• A little more signaling on Romney’s monetary policy, but I’m still not satisfied.

• Todd Akin asks for forgiveness.

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• The polling hasn’t moved yet.
• What happens if he drops out.

• Rep. Todd Akin says that women don’t get pregnant from “legitimate rape” (as opposed to?) because they can will it away or something. It could cost him the Missouri Senate race.
• Are you excited for the Republican Convention? No? Read this anyway if you feel like it.
• This kind of evasion is omnipresent in politics, but it seems to

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• Ryan deals with hecklers on first day of solo campaign.
• The media honeymoon was fun, but the first poll didn’t record a swoon.
• 501(c)(4)s are king: Crossroads GPS and Americans for Prosperity outspending all super PACs combined.

• The new Republican ticket talks Medicare on 60 Minutes.
• The front page of the Miami Herald doesn’t mince words.
• What Ryan can do for Romney in Wisconsin.

• The summer slowdown is starting to show up in economic polling.
• Things are looking up maybe?
• Mike Allen previews the pageantry in Charlotte.
• Obama airs speculative tax beef.

• Businessweek interviews Mitt Romney.
• Conservatives didn’t like his campaign’s defense of universal health care.
• Today’s ephemeral controversy in the making: Romney cuts a “war on religion” ad.

• Romney attacks Obama on welfare reform. It’s worth noting that a) the changes to TANF aim to improve employment outcomes by letting states try different methods, and b) that was why Romney and 28 other Republican governors sought waivers in 2005.

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• Congress: now so embarrassing that freshman

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• Dan Balz on the state-of-the-race.
• Romney says the Fed shouldn’t take “massive” new action, sounds a lot like, well, the Fed.
• Unemployment is “a sad and distant tragedy” in Washington.