town hall. we have seen them pull up in the car. they will be on the stage in a few minutes. new hampshire is a state that of force mitt romney would like to win, he has a vacation home there, he feels it s a second home for him, yet it has been leaning obama according to the karl rove map that we just looked at a little while ago. it s an area that they want to make traction in terms of the medicare argument today and one of the final stops as they go through the course of this week leading up to the national convention where they will become the official nominee and vice-presidental nominee. carl cameron is on the ground, he s been watching awful this fowatching all of this for us. we are seeing the team reunited. they are saying romney is a better campaigner when ryan is at his side. they have made quite an impact. we ve seen budging in some of the numbers that would back up that notion, gregg. gregg: what is interesting, as we mentioned in the granite state 14% of the voters there
particularly well, unemployment is disproportionately high among the 40% not voting. there are loads of reasons why this isn t going to happen. also it s weighted the unlikely to votes are weighted toward the 18 to 29 year olds. the youngest voters, they were about 17% of those who turned out in separate. i ll be surprised if they are that high. i ll bet you, martha, that the 60-plus 60 years old and older voters are going to be a larger percentage this year. they were about a quarter of the voters in 2008. i think they ll notch up a couple of percent this year, and they tend to be more republican. the younger voters tend to be more democratic. martha: no doubt that is one of the reasons that we see so much focus on medicare because that is a real important issue for those voters. have a great day at the university of virginia. we will see you soon. same to you, martha. gregg: let s take a closer look
to be sure. he s not going to sit on the second half of that ticket and try to bolster mitt romney. he s a very strong speaker in his own right and somebody who has articulated that vision in the form of a very controversial budget that he put out there. now he says that he is on the romney team, and that he is in favor of mitt romney s plan for the budget and for medicare, which is slightly different than his own. let s listen to a little bit of that. it s great to be back. good to see you. wow. [applause] look at this. father, how are you? good to see you. you can say father how rurbgs they all say hi back. it s great. i was here with the senunus a couple of years ago and i served in congress with some very capable, conscientious legislators, thank you for sending up frank ginka to wong. he s an awesome guy. what about charlie bass?
look at the line above payroll taxes. we pay our payroll taxes for two programs, social security, and medicare. that s the law, that s how it s supposed to work. but now because of president obama it s being siphoned off to partially fund obamacare as well. that is not an achievement that is a raid on medicare, and mitt romney and i are going to stop that raid on medicare, restore this program and get these bureaucrats out of the way from standing between our senior citizens and their medicare. [cheers and applause] [chanting] medicare should not be a piggy bank for obamacare, it should be a guaranteed promise that our seniors can count on. in order to save this program, for those who are already retired and people who are about to retire, you have to reform it
despite skepticism coming from some political experts on all of this, saying romney team should stay focused on job. listen to some of the back and forth. now you heard the president has been talking about medicare a bit lately. we want this debate, we need this debate and we are going to win this debate. [cheers and applause] we think a more fulsome debate about the future of medicare and the romney-ryan approach is good for us. martha: we also heard from robert gibbs earlier in ed henry s hit on this. form karl rove joins me now. former senior advisor to president george w. bush and karl, good morning. good to see you. i m fine. how are you? martha: how do you feel about the fact that medicare has become so central to this debate? there was going to be a debate about medicare. the question whether it would be on the republicans terms now, out in the open