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And medicare and medicaid, women really have almost nowhere to go. that's exactly what women are going to understand as they take a careful look at what this guy is proposing and that's why they're going to lose that election. >> terry o'neil, national organization for women. thanks for joining us. a lot more coming up in the next half hour of "the ed show." stay with us. you can't lift people out of poverty if you don't have a growing economy. >> there's a new republican leader in the party's war on the middle class. james hoffa of the teamsters and cwa's larry cohen react to the ryan pic...

I mean, the left and the right both reacted to a selection of what seemed like equal excitement over the weekend. obviously one side celebrating a little too soon here. one thing seems clear, ryan's pick is a game changing moment in the campaign so far. romney went for a selection that would change things up, redefine his narrative after weeks of bad headlines everything from bain and his tax returns he won't show us to his overseas trip which was a flop and romney decided playing it safe wasn't an option anymore, so he went with ryan. ryan comes with major risk and the democrats know it, in p...

>> that's what i said when i started the show. he's skipping away from what he said on saturday which on saturday he just loved the ryan plan. by sunday night on "60 minutes" -- >> he loved ryan. he loves ryan. what he loves is he also spent a lot of time putting his budget together. but i think -- >> he picks out the stuff he likes in ryan and skips away from the stuff that might actually show some spine. go ahead. >> let me do the medicare and if we have time i'll show you why you're wrong on that, too. >> i think i'm right, but go ahead. >> let's do medicare. i think the democrats and obama...

The depth of knowledge as the professor here, saying that we're going to cut all these loopholes and lower your tax rate, there's something that just doesn't pass the smell test there, right? >> no, it doesn't and of course, the thing that they don't talk about or they talk about it as though it's a good thing, shutting down all the government things they consider sue per flous. like medicare and medicaid and just focus on social security and defense. the reason they don't talk about those is because if they did, they would cut off some of their campaign funding. those apply to people who give...

E iowa holds great significance here for president obama. it launched his campaign back in 2008. he's hoping to hold on to tl by targeting independents. they say they should add seniors to that list. they make up about 14% of iowa's population and may be back in play now in a very big way, in part because of the ryan pick. as you know, polls show that ryan's medicare plan is not incredibly popular with seniors right now. >> nbc's kristen welker with president obama in iowa. >> meanwhile, take a listen to paul ryan's campaign in iowa. so right there medicare, what is he going to do about that. ...