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Washington bureau chief of "the boston globe." the headline in this article today, the selection of paul ryan may add substance to campaign. christopher thanks for joining us. what was the calculation you think by mitt romney in choosing paul ryan? did it really come down to the decision that this election was no longer going to be a referendum on the president, they now had to move into a choice election? >> that's exactly right. governor romney had been content to sit by and run a bland campaign in many respects, allowing negative jobs reports to pile up and pile up, you know, flaccid econom...

Approach. >> a major change. and, you know, we had on friday here, christopher, the three polls that came out that gave a significant lead to president obama. some of that evidence is in likability. the latest fox news poll showed that romney's unfavorable ratings had gotten worse by some 5%. and here's -- you see on the screen right now how president obama built the lead over three polls -- reuters, cnn, and fox news. was that what they were looking at? >> yeah. i think there was certainly a sense that, you know, despite everything they had done, despite, you know, the economy's remaining, yo...

running mate. take a listen. >> for us, this is a campaign of ideas and a direction for america. what's america going to be, what kind of nation we're going to be, how are we going to help people across this country have a better future, and having two people talk about that i think is a far more compelling dynamic than being out there on my own. i'm excited. >> meanwhile, president obama's campaign is giving paul ryan no time to settle into his new role. cnn adviser david axeod came out swinging on nbc's "meet the press" this morning attacking the republicans' economic plan. >> we h...

and a ball cap. and then on friday, how did they get ryan from wisconsin to virginia for this announcement that nbc news broke in the wee hours? they kept it secret until just hours before the announcement was made. well, paul ryan came home from a memorial service for the victims of the sikh temple shooting in wisconsin. he came home, reporters, including nbc's own embed spotted him there. he exited out the back door, through the woods behind his home in a neighborhood where he grew up, was picked up on a nearby street by a top aide who drove him to a nearby airport where he and his...

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