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That. maybe he has moved the campaign away from the economy and jobs moved it to budgets and medicare and all of that? >> the peck clearly move the election. -- the pick clearly move the election. the midwest in particular was starting to slip away in the polls and i think he needed to do something i think to reset it and i think ryan has done that. the one thing i would agree with bill on is the energy that has happened now. a lot of folks in the base i think weren't as excited about romney and now they are and in an election where it going to be close in places like, florida, and ohio and ge...

That. maybe he has moved the campaign away from the economy and jobs moved it to budgets and medicare and all of that? >> the peck clearly move the election. -- the pick clearly move the election. the midwest in particular was starting to slip away in the polls and i think he needed to do something i think to reset it and i think ryan has done that. the one thing i would agree with bill on is the energy that has happened now. a lot of folks in the base i think weren't as excited about romney and now they are and in an election where it going to be close in places like, florida, and ohio and ge...

Thatou were fighting cuts against amtrak. isn't your history to try to moderate, both when fighting for re-election, but also as a memberof congress? to try to fd common ground and compromise? >> of course background to find compromise. that's what you have to do in order to get this done. but you don't cmpmise on your principles. i uslfare reform as an example. i -- i went out and helped author the welfare reform bill that became the contract with america bill, a then when i was in the united states senate, i managed that bl as a first-term, firsyear member of the united states senate. i went...

Re-election, but also as a memberof congress? to try to fd common ground and compromise? >> of course background to find compromise. that's what you have to do in order to get this done. but you don't cmpmise on your principles. i uslfare reform as an example. i -- i went out and helped author the welfare reform bill that became the contract with america bill, a then when i was in the united states senate, i managed that bl as a first-term, firsyear member of the united states senate. i went up against daniel patrick moynihan and tedennedy and battled over two vetoes o president clinton and wa...

The subtext is you might think i'm a rich guy with a strange religion, but i'm just like you. i think that's probably not enough to win in a country where people feel it's in decline. that the scope of his plans are not as big as the scope of the problems. the problem that also applies to barack obama. >> this week, though, potentially? >> potentially. >> -- is not going to be silent, also. >> -- take that on. because this is a big issue about whether president obama has measured up as a leader. i mean, there's real fears of national decline, a sense of the country's on the wrong track. this i...