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Mayors we passed the simpson bowles plan as a template for moving forward and the president has done the same. you talked about the republican convention. mr. ryan raised that as well. what he didn't say is he was a member of that commission and didn't vote for it. >> chris: i understand. it was the president's commission and he did nothing with it. >> what the president has done he is also cutting $4 trillion out of this deficit. now, he is not cutting -- >> chris: but in a way that republicans will never buy. the other plan had bipartisan support. >> he didn't have mr. ryan's support. and yo...

Joining us now, the chairman of the democratic national convention, los angeles mayor antonio villaraigosa. welcome to "fox news sunday." >> good to see you again, chris. >> you may be the chairman of the democratic convention but you like to say and i will read the quote you take on stupid whereever is exists. what is stewed by with romney and the republicans. >> i don't want to describe either governor romney or the republicans as stupid but i will say this. if you look at their platform, the 2012 platform, it looks like it is from another century and maybe even two. it looks like the platfo...

>> one thing about that is that the ryan announcement preconvention spent some of the force that you would normally get. you think of a convention that had a huge bounce bun o one ofe biggest was four years ago and the civilian announcement and hethe about performance into ad into the convention. completely stepped on the bounce from the obama convention. if ryan had been announced on the eve of the convention and gave the speech he gave i think that the effect of it would have been bigger. but i think he got a little help, he began to come up a bit in the polls after ryan so part of it was sp...

Brown face or a spanish sur name and expect people are going to vote for your party or your candidate. senator marco rubio is one of the rising stars of the republican party. that is more than tokenism, sir. >> let me be actual clear. i said in the makeup room i thought susanna martinez and mar rubio gave the two best spinaches of the convention. marco rubio was exceptional. i was never directing my comments towards him. in fact, he actual ally agreed with me. the only thing he said is if that applies to the republicans it also applies to the democrats and i don't disagree with that. the diffe...

I think we are in it a new age here where convention bounces may not be what they used to be. >> chris: i was going to ask you, kirsten, particularly now and since 2004 the case where the two conventions one right next to each 84 with thre othee whole idea of a convention bounce outdated. >> it is some what jut dated. the average is about five points. around what you would have expected. polarized electorate also. i wouldn't have expected a huge bounce any way because is most people already know where they are. reuters found that there was an increase among independents from 34% to 45% in term...