Paul Ryan VP Selection Has Done Little To Win Voters

Paul Ryan VP Selection Has Done Little To Win Voters For Mitt Romney: Poll

WASHINGTON, Sept 24 (Reuters) - Mitt Romney's selection of Paul Ryan as his running mate has done little to attract voters to the Republican ticket and more think he is not qualified to be president than believe he is ready for the White House, a Reuters/Ipsos poll said on Monday.

Fewer than a third of registered voters, 29 percent, said the selection of Ryan made them feel more favorable toward Romney. But with 27 percent in the online poll saying it made them feel less favorable, Ryan's place on the ticket may have little effect on the Nov. 6 election.

The results were largely split along party lines - with 46 percent of Democrats saying Ryan's choice made them less favorable, compared with 8 percent who said the opposite. And 56 percent of Republicans felt more favorable, versus 6 percent.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/ ... 3H20120924

So much for "convention bump"; so much for "VP Pick bump"....

Insert standard Biden cheap-shot here: _________________________________________

Oh, by the way, here are the numbers on Biden:

Biden led 43 percent to 36 percent, thanks to huge support among Democrats.

But more Democrats had faith in Biden, a former Delaware senator who is well-known as the incumbent, than Republicans had in the 42-year-old Ryan, a Wisconsin congressman who is chairman of the House of Representatives Budget Committee.

Among Democrats, 74 percent said Biden was more qualified, versus 8 percent who chose Ryan and 18 percent who did not know. Seventy percent of Republicans favored Ryan, compared with 13 percent for Biden and 18 percent who did not know.

He even leads his own party over the GOTP...

Not the candidates it's the Tea Party message. Romney gave the best of a stupid message, any other republican candidate would be losing by 10 points. The primaries doomed him. The repub. base made him play the whack job card.
They will cry and moan that he was not articulate about "the message".
The Tea Party message is the repub. reason
they will most likely lose.

The move was to solidfy the base rather than reach out to independents and Democrats.

[url=http://www.electoral-vote.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;]www.electoral-vote.com[/url] says Ryan has actually become more like Romney since the convention, being more vague and less specific.

Think there would have been more of a reach out to independents and hispanics if Rubio had been the choice? Or the Honey Boo boo/Jersey Shore voting block with Gov. Chrisie?

FredHayek wrote: The move was to solidfy the base rather than reach out to independents and Democrats.

[url=http://www.electoral-vote.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;]http://www.electoral-vote.com[/url] says Ryan has actually become more like Romney since the convention, being more vague and less specific.

Think there would have been more of a reach out to independents and hispanics if Rubio had been the choice? Or the Honey Boo boo/Jersey Shore voting block with Gov. Chrisie?

Like "the base" was going to vote for who? Nonsense!

The base might have stayed home instead of voting, something that is a concern to both parties in every election. Why did the Democrats take such a shellacking in 2010? Might it have had something to do with Democrats staying home on election day?
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-k ... e_you.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162- ... 03544.html

Yep. It is easier to get your base out than to change a mind or make up a mind.

FredHayek wrote: Yep. It is easier to get your base out than to change a mind or make up a mind.

Yeah, that's why the teabaggers have gone to so much trouble to disenfranchise as many as possible by imposing unnecessary voter-suppression laws.

They can't win if they don't cheat....