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Marco rubio of florida. the selection of a republic senator by romney could further complicate the already daunting task for the republicans of reclaiming control of the senate. now, what remains to be seen here with the selection of ryan is whether he will help governor romney with a few key groups who are thought to be decisive in this election cycle. women voters, it's worth pointing out women have outnumber nurebbed men as voters in presidential elections in every contest since 1984. independents as we have already mentioned and also hispanics. back to you guys in new york. >> that's inter...

To go along with you. keep dreaming. keep doing. go long. >> 6:59 is the time now. you are looking good on saturday morning august 119, 2012. i'm anna kooiman filling in for alisyn camerota. start with a fox news alert. paul ryan tapped as ryan's v.p. pick. come from mitt romney himself in a few hours. all the breaking details straight ahead. how does a romney ryan ticket affect president obama. reaction straight ahead from the obama campaign this hour. >> and speaking of the democratic party, did they unknowingly or unintentionally create the candidate, paul ryan? we're going to talk about th...

Great relationship. their wives get along. how important do you think that was in making v.p. pick. >> you can tell when romney was running in the wisconsin primary he was getting along quite well with paul ryan. the two men did bond pretty well. i'm going to be interested in learning more about these deliberations. it's been my impression that as much as some republicans may say oh, my goodness, he is 9 points behind in the new fox poll, the sky is falling, the romney has been the kind of guy to say steady as you go, i have got a plan, i'm sticking to it. so i don't think this was a move that...

Downside risk and this seems to me to be a pretty strong repudiation of that. at some point it seems they changed their mind oven that. >> the political reality changed their mind for that. let's think about when they were leaking that out. six weeks ago. 's when they felt it was fairly even. yes, the president seemed to be up a little bit but in the last three or four weeks, this race -- you know, it felt like it was opening up. what was opening up about it, we can debate the size of the president's lead, okay? nobody seems to be debating the idea that the president is leading but was really ...

Right choosing ryan elevates the ryan budget to the top of the romney campaign ageneral can a. that's not really the campaign that mitt romney has run until now different campaign from now. >> he would be 42. the third youngest v.p. selection since world war ii after richard nixon and dan quail. other people have saying that, you know, this would be great for the republic party to try to at that point -- tap into that younger vote which is something that the obama camp has been good at for the last three or four years. >> he he is definitely not too young. he is the same age al gore was when h...