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Right now President Obama is trying to grab his own share of attention this week while Republicans are here in Tampa chief White House correspondent Ed Henry reports.

The president is going back to school at the determination that this week in Tampa.

My opponents will offer you their agenda.

It should be a pretty entertaining show President Obama on the road into battle -- Iowa and Colorado trying to counter program that show in Florida.

What you won't hear from them is a path forward instead -- be economic plan that says if you just give folks make him.

Three million dollars or more a year another 250000.

Dollar tax cut.

The jobs and prosperity will magically rained down on everybody else.

While his campaign team makes the case Republican Mitt Romney is about to get the political version of that extreme make over.

-- Mentions -- at the it's not running for office for the -- on August 3.

-- -- Romney allies believe the president's refusal to give up this stage shows he's on defense.

Especially with -- one time lead slipping in states like Iowa and Republican Paul Ryan's home of Wisconsin's.

He's worried about Mitt Romney getting a big bounce out -- -- And what he's doing to counteract that -- trying to get his message out and -- push back in the republicans' message the president is spending a lot of time here on college campuses trying to rev up a key part of his -- for years ago.

It's part by turning the -- public -- tax cut back on Romney he'd sit right down grab a pen and -- seven million young people up their parents plan by repealing.

Health reform maybe we should call his plan -- doesn't care.

'cause I do care.

A recent eight PG FK -- revealed the president has a sixteen point lead among voters under the age of 35.

Still fox exit polls from 2000 -- HL the president had a much more comfortable 34 point edge among voters under 29 yet recent graduates having a hard time finding a job.

They're more likely to get a job at Starbucks and live -- their parents basement and find a job that they've been training foreign college.

Now today -- private research group said that consumer confidence fell in August unexpectedly.

To its lowest level since last November on jobs fears.

A reminder that the next unemployment report comes out the Friday after the Democratic National Convention.

Just one day after the president's big speech Brett.

Ed Henry traveling with the president Fort Collins, Colorado -- thank you.