They also could have let Ron Paul speak for 20 minutes or so. Ron Paul does have a following made up of the young hipsters that could have given Romney 500,000 to a million more votes and take that same number of votes away from Obama.
It is unbelieveable how bad a campaign they ran.
By dropping Sarah Palin, Ron Paul, et al from the list of speakers Romney and his handlers made it a remarkably uninteresting convention (we wouldn't have noticed if the hurricane wiped this oneout eh) and the Republicans were not stirred up.
The Democrats were more or less contratulated on having renominated Obama, hardly intimidating to them.