[Bluegrass Conservative]

I think you're partially right. The prime time folks at the convention are to try to pull in the swing voters that don't pay enough attention to know what is going on. They are the ones that only know 3 or 4 names from each party, so you make sure you have those 3 or 4 folks on television for them.

However, the convention speakers whose time slots were only featured on C-Span and 24-hour news networks often are rising stars within the party. There were several of those this past convention, in my opinion. Those being folks like Mitt Romney, Michael Steele, Anne Northup, etc.

[Jacvin]

True.

Prime time is usually reserved to try and get what YOU DON"T HAVE.

All polls indicate that Conservatives are solidly behind the President so they went for the undecideds.(mods by definition)

You cannot go for the mods if you don't have your own base nailed down.

Nailing down your base is the most important aspect of Presidential politics, a concept a lot of posters on this thread seem to have a problem understanding.

Like it or not Giuliani could never secure the Republican base.

That reality may infuriate the mod Republicans I'm arguing with but it is the reality none the less.