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With health care costs. because if it did keep pace with health care costs, there would be no savings. thats why they go the voucher. they -- we will be no part of a voucher program or the privatization of social security. >> a voucher is you go to your mailbox, get a check, and buy something. nobody is proposing that. barack obama four years ago running for president said if you dont have any fresh ideas, use stale tactics to scare voters. if you dont have a good record to run on, paint your op...

Came here to follow paul ryan why? >> im here because paul ryan has refused to engage the voters of the first congressional candidate since he was tapped by mitt romney. hes authored the most destructive budget the united states has ever seen. >> if by running on the national ticket, is he not answering these same questions that voters in a swing district like the first congressional district of wisconsin? isnt he answering these questions? >> theyre seeing a side of paul ryan theyve never seen ...

The issues if he accurately reflects the issues that he and mitt romney can agree on. at least up until recently i think that could be a win for democrats. >> doesnt that really put ryan in a bind, tad, where he has to try and defend the top of his ticket but at the same time protect his own future if, in fact, hes not elected vice president? >> yeah, i think its very difficult for congressman ryan. hes going to have to lie about two sets of records, not just one. the truth is that the ryan plan...

A pretty important lead in some battleground states. >> you dont think that is going to clang? >> we dont think so. first of all you know the presidents, you know, got a high support level. you know, 49, 50, 51 depending on the state. we like what were seeing in terms of early vote and absentee ballot requests. we dont think that is going to change. were going to be able to measure this. im sure the romney campaign says theyre raising a lot of money. im sure that is true. our supporters are ener...

Years. you said you would cut the deficit in half. its four years later. you raised taxes and you killed jobs. the rev new i get is by more people working, getting higher pay, paying more taxes. >> much to the chagrin of more liberal members shlg the president didnt mention bayne capital. didnt question about his tax returns. somehow talked about the bush tax cuts without uttering the name bush. all lines of attack on the campaign pushing in tv ads and on the trail. the sharpest contrast was on ...

And the essence of the plan is that he would turn medicare into a voucher program. its called premium support. but its understood to be a voucher program -- >> jim: you dont support that? >> i dont. let me explain why -- >> again, thats for future people. not current retirees. >> if you are 54 or 55, you might want to listen because this will affect you. the idea, which was originally present bide congressman ryan, your runningmate, is that we would give a voucher to seniors and they could go ou...

Ask senator hutchinson, romney will cut social security. and i believe senator hutchinson agrees with him. romney will convert medicare into a voucher program, which will be a disaster for senior citizens who are ill. romney -- let me finish please, he will make devastating cuts in medicare slowing millions and millions of children off of health insurance. romney at a time when we have the most unequal distribution of wealth and income since the 1920s will give huge, huge tax breaks to millionai...

The. was there a deliberate strategy on your part to tell the president to not attack mitt romney? he never talked directly to mitt romney and told him that he was being wrong about things. the one time he got closest to that when he said -- your strategy right now is to say "never mind" about your previous tack plan. thats as close as they got to taking on mitt romney and confronting him. were you trying to make the president appear, essentially, softer in terms of his personality so he wouldnt...

From howard fineman, chuck who are you hearing? >> very similar. i can tell you theyre not being -- theyre trying to sugar coat it a little publicly. what do you expect them to do -- thats what a spin room is for but they know they lost and you can hear it in davids voice because he sits there and says -- but long term, when we have a conversation with votersbility mitt romney saying hes not going to raise a single tax to deal with the deficit that hes going to double down on the voucher program...

Medicare into a voucher program and i also believe the president was good in drawing the contrast between the two economic approaches, the two economic plans. governor romney believes that tax cuts for the wealthy grow jobs. most of us understand that those sorts of tax cuts are what grow deficits. they dont grow jobs. and president obama and his opportunity economy, i thought that exchange was lucid. i dont think it was a game changer tonight. the president handled himself with a more dignified...