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Now, we are at today. day three of the romney/ryan ticket. and on day three, here's how mr. romney has been trying to handle the hot potato subject of paul ryan unplugged, of his running mate's record. he's been trying to muddy the waters, trying to say it's not his running mate who has proposed gutting medicare. that's the other guy. >> the president's idea, for instance, for medicare was to cut it by $700 billion. that's not the right answer. we want to make sure that we preserve and protect medicare. >> the $700 billion cut for medicare that the republicans are very excited about, whatever ...

His original road map idea, quote, was just me unplugged. now, we are at today. day three of the romney/ryan ticket. and on day three, here's how mr. romney has been trying to handle the hot potato subject of paul ryan unplugged, of his running mate's record. he's been trying to muddy the waters, trying to say it's not his running mate who has p proposed gutting medicare. that's the other guy. >> the president's idea, for instance, for medicare was to cut it by $700 billion. that's not the right answer. we want to make sure that we preserve and protect medicare. >> the $700 billion cut for med...

Definition. we've been saying for some time that mitt romney's been trying to run this race with no substance. he's somebody who seemed to be completely hollowed out. we know he embraced some ideology through the primary. but he tried to say absolutely nothing. now he's selected a running mate whose values fly in the face of heartland values. he wants to gut education for young people. he wants to turn medicare and social security into a coupon program. he absolutely is not betting on the american worker at a time when we have a jobs bill that's been sitting in his congress for a better part o...

Does that work as a bigger pitch to older voters in way that might be more successful in a typical democrat year? >> it does to some degree. republican the republicans are playing very careful politics with this. they are saying none of these cuts are going to affect you because this older generation in general and men in particular are one of their best constituencies. remember all the old new dealers, most of them have gone to their eternal reward. this particular cohert is a more conservative cohert than the one that came before. the republicans know they've got to pitch to them. i do think...

Does that work as a bigger pitch to older voters in a way that might be more successful in a typical democrat year? >> it does to some degree. but remember the republicans are playing very careful politics with this. they are saying, none of these cuts are going to affect you. because the older generation, in particular, are one of the best constituencies. remember all the old new dealers, most of them have gone to their eternal reward. this particular cohert is a more con serve tiff cohort of older voters than the one that came before. so the republicans know that they've got to pitch to them...