Hmmm: Clinton still hasn't submitted his convention speech for vetting yet

Clinton is the only major speaker yet to submit his address to the typically painstaking vetting and rewriting that typically accompanies major convention addresses, provoking a mild and growing dose of nerves among senior Democrats, a Democratic official told BuzzFeed Monday.

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Clinton’s speech will be key because Republicans have sought to peel Clinton Democrats — working class white voters he so successfully courted in the 1990s — back to the Republican coalition. Aides to Mitt Romney have even accused Obama of breaking with Clinton’s legacy, an unthinkable accusation for the anti-Clinton Republican Party of the 1990s.

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