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The electorate history it doesn't work that way. people want to put individuals back to work. and frankly, they picked someone, governor romney has picked someone that has a known history. someone that served on ways and means and created a budget. whether you like it or not, this is someone that created a solution and put it forward to america. that's tremendous. at the end of the day, women will rise or fall on their own merits and the selection by governor romney speaks well to the fact we need to solve the economic challenges of our country today. >> karen floyd, neera tandon, thank you fo...

Women voters? we're joined by karen floyd and by nera tandon. thank you both for joining us today. paul ryan has brought some energy certainly and some enthusiasm to the romney campaign that we saw over the weekend. does this help with women voters? >> you know, i found it to be a very surprising choice in that regard. because, you know, it's true. mitt romney does have significant ground to catch up on with women voters. poll after poll has shone him to have a doesn't-digit loss. what's surprising about the ryan selection is that it really seems to double down on the problems that women see w...

Convince seniors it's the president cutting medicare? >> i think what it's going to do is elevate the issue of medicare in this debate. we launched an initiative in march called "earn to say." this was focused on bringing the debate about medicare and social security out from behind closed doors in washington and to the american people. we have been hosting sessions around the country, our aarp volunteers have had meetings with members and voters of all ages in senior centers, coffee houses and universities to talk about these issues. we're delighted it's at the top of the agenda. we hope that...

Earth. and i believe, and the polls reflect thrks the longer there's a conversation about what appear to be small issues and a lot of negativity that don't matter about the future policy of this country may benefit the president because it's not closer to a hard-edged debate about his actual record and what to do in the future. >> major, jackie, stand by. the romney campaign just rolled out an ad hitting the president over medicare. look at this. >> you paid into medicare for years. every paycheck. now when you need it obama has cut $716 billion from medicare. why? to pay for obama care. the r...

From nancy where she's getting questions from aarp members. how clear has he been about this? >> well, i mean, i think there's some concern in the romney campaign because of the ryan budget and the ryan medicare plan. there's definitely some concern. and the last couple days, we have seen him say there's no daylight, there's some. there isn't really a plan from the romney campaign about this. we'll see what happens. but there has to be some concern there because seniors, you know, are concerned about this. exactly what nancy was saying. >> and major, that lack of clarity or the clarity he says...