If he felt confident in the polls, and/or thought he could keep campaigning by just saying Obama sucks while offering ZERO policy details, he would have gone with a safe, do no harm pick like Portman or Palenty...Actually, Condi Rice is very well liked by moderate & independent voters and would have been a good choice, but since she is PRO-choice, scratch her..No way the GOP would accept her..

Ryan is strongly anti-abortion, so forget bringing in any moderate female voters...It's basically Romney doubling down on his plan to get rid of Planned Parenthood (an agency he once supported and wrote checks for)

I doubt Ryan helps with Wisconsin...The state is fairly blue, Obama won Ryan's district in 2008, as well as the state...Although, the big unknown this election is all the suppressive voter ID bullshit, and we don't know how that is going to play out...

Ryan has zero foreign policy experience, just like the guy at the top of the GOP ticket, so they have something in common there...

The Obama team should print 500,000 bumper stickers that read "Romney & Ryan will kill Medicare" and distribute them all over Florida...Obama should win FL. now handily, notwithstanding Gov Scott's voter suppression tactics...

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