title: BeautifulSoup Cannot Find Tag
body: <p>I am trying to scrape <a href="http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=99556" rel="nofollow">this page</a>  and all of the other pages like it. I have been using BeautifulSoup (also have tried lxml but there have been installation issues). I am using the following code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>value = "http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=99556"
  desiredTag = "span"
  r = urllib2.urlopen(value)
  data = BeautifulSoup(r.read(), 'html5lib') 
  displayText = data.find_all(desiredTag)
  print displayText
  displayText = " ".join(str(displayText))
  displayText = BeautifulSoup(displayText, 'html5lib')
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>For some reason this isn't pull back the <code>&lt;span class="displaytext"&gt;</code> and also I have tried <code>desiredTag</code> as <code>p</code></p>
  
  <p>Am I missing something?</p>