Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer is one of the more popular speakers at the convention in Denver because of countryisms like one he just delivered to the Florida delegation—if Obama wins Florida, he said, “I guaran-dang-tee he’ll win Montana.”

No Democratic presidential candidate has won the state since Bill Clinton, who won with only 38 percent in 1996 because of Ross Perot’s 28 percent, Schweitzer said. That record is similar to Florida’s.

But he said, jokingly, to the Florida delegation’s breakfast that appearing there was “the pinnacle of my career” because “Florida is where elections are won or lost.”

His ability to give funny speeches has put Schweitzer in demand here, but asked if he was having fun, he said, “I’d rather be fishing.”

At this time of year, he said, grasshoppers are rising around Denver streams, and throwing a grasshopper out and letting it drift down even a small stream is likely to produce a trout.

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