Hello and It's Thursday, July 21st and I'm Kristen Roberts, political's national editor.

This week we're coming to you from the Republican National Convention in Cleveland and what an amazing event this has been.

Here are the numbers that mattered this week at the RNC.

23. The length of the speech Ted Cruz gave that got him booed off stage and into the history books.

Four, the number of speakers who did more for Donald Trump than the rest of the convention combined.

And 30, that's how many mega donors showed up here in Cleveland for a private meeting

with the super PAC that has one Donald Trump's blessing. So grab your calculators

and enjoy the 2016 nerdcast. Hello to my Cleveland crew Eli Stockels.

Hey Kristen.

Ken Vogel.

Hey.

And Senior Politics Editor Charlie Matazian.

Hi, Kristen. We're getting a lot of good questions from our listeners and before we launch into our

Cleveland conversation let's first hear from Paul hello out there Paul what's your

question? Hi there so as a college student and soon to be voter in my first presidential election, I'm always perplexed

and have been particularly as of weight by what seems to be an odd paradox, which is that all

candidates clamor for this youth vote, and when they do get it they touted around as a

symbol of great importance that somehow indicative of their appeal and viability

writ large but in academic circles and also in a lot of intellectual

political coverage.

People seem to sort of derive the notion that the youth felt matters as much if at all.

So all that said, I'm wondering whether or not you guys believe that this electoral cycle will

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