Tuesday was “Make America Work Again” day at the Republican National Convention, which also happened to coincide with the party formally nominating Donald Trump as its nominee.

But neither jobs nor Trump got much attention as a grab bag of Republican headliners Tuesday spent most of their time demonizing Hillary Clinton and talking about themselves without offering an affirmative case for the nominee or a concrete economic policy agenda.

The keynoter, House Speaker Paul Ryan, spoke nearly 1,500 words, but mentioned Trump’s name just twice. Promising he’ll be standing alongside “Vice President Mike Pence and President Donald Trump” at next year’s State of the Union address, Ryan spent the lion’s share of his time castigating the Democratic Party instead.

Yeah. It’s a little difficult to argue that the country’s employment situation is horrible when the current unemployment rate is at 4.9%. It’s even more difficult if the survey numbers about delegates for 2008 hold true this year, and there’s no real reason to doubt they do.

In 2008, 70% of Democratic delegates and 67% of Republican delegates reported earning $75,000 or more per year, compared to 27% of Democratic voters and 39% of Republican voters.

Seems unlikely folks earning that kind of money are out of work.

So what did the speakers talk about instead? Why, Hillary Clinton, of course!

Nate Silver 10:33 PM
Just got a transcript of tonight’s remarks. The scoreboard: “Clinton” was mentioned 79 times and “Trump” 61 times. Variations on “work” or “working,” the alleged theme of the evening, were mentioned 48 times.