Congress’ record unpopularity — and what it means for Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney

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Congress’ record unpopularity — and what it means for Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney

Posted by Chris Cillizza and Aaron Blake


http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2012/08/15/congress-record-unpopularity-and-what-it-means-for-paul-ryan-and-mitt-romney/

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What is new, however, is that Mitt Romney’s vice presidential running mate is a 14-year veteran of Congress and currently chairs the House Budget Committee.

Romney’s decision to pick Ryan to share the national ticket has caused all sorts of ripple effects — Medicare, anyone? — not least in giving new life to Democratic attempts to elevate House Republicans in the presidential race.

On Monday in Iowa, Obama described Ryan as “one of those leaders of Congress standing in the way” of passage of the farm bill.

And the president — currently in the midst of a three-day Iowa campaign swing — has taken to describing Ryan, as he did during a stop on Tuesday in Oskaloosa, as “the ideological leader of the Republicans in Congress.”

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