against women s act. paul ryan s group has been blocking that because they think it helps too many victims. particularly people in same sex couples and immigrants. what is the likelihood? i think it s zero to none that we will hear vice president joe biden refer to congressman ryan as an extremist, mark? you re probably not going to hear that. i do think what ryan is actually you re going to hear vice president biden do focus on parts of the paul ryan budget plan to box in paul ryan to have to defend the things that he s been for and also some parts where he actually isn t make paul ryan defend things he s talked about. how does he does it with credibility? how does he get in and merge their differences when you pointed out there is light between them, significant light on something like this? there s usually not a lot of gray area when you re discussing women s health and certainly not
ryan? i would challenge him on these very fundamental positions he s taking. maybe you should xerox that and slip it to one of biden s guys. both sides can see it. both sides can see it. in the meantime, the polls, we had a little graphic up that showed pole ryization. because so many people have made up their minds, do you bank on this debate tonight being any kind of a change in the game? i doubt it s going to be a change. we ve seen very few vice presidential debates where they ve mattered. democrats want a little bit of momentum. these polls have shown that last week s debate didn t matter all that much but going into this final stretch with 26 days left they actually want something to believe in their side, to take the fight to the republicans. i think that s what they re going to be looking for. the republicans want to keep their momentum. i think the draw goes to the other side, the republicans. i do too. without a win. has to be decisive. the team loses. can
without chris matthews. erin carmone and washington post political reporter, nea maria. let me start out with you. congressman paul ryan s stance on abortion legislation is not unified with romney s. when you look at, flex, legislation he co-sponsored with todd akin, we know the hot water he s in. there was the legitimate rape comment in the legislation that was co-sponsored but there was similar legislation. how unified is ryan with romney? there is daylight between their stances on abortion. ryan seems not to want abortion in any cases. romney makes exceptions. the life of the mother and the life of the child and so he has a much different view there and of course you saw in this iowa interview that he gave a couple of days ago he made
47%. the fact is i think it will come up tonight because tonight i hope they talk about the ryan budget and if you talk about the ryan budget, you ve got to understand that it is a budget that is terribly detrimental to the middle class. it begins the privatization of social security. it voucherizes medicare. it cuts pell grants. it slices medicaid to states that takes care of our seniors and disabled individuals and it gives big tax cuts to really rich people and it explodes the deficit. the paul ryan budget doesn t achieve balance for 30 years and i hope that s talked about tonight. let me ask you quickly about the unemployment rate in ohio. 7.2% versus the national average of 7.8. that is good news. it s interesting. you have a lot of battleground states who have seen the unemployment drop below the national average. in states where the republicans are governors, they want to take credit for the dip in the
find out who s responsible and we ll correct it. he might point out that the administration sought more funds for state department security worldwide and republicans weren t willing to go along with that. so, you know, i think i would point that out. but it s really not a time for partisan sniping. a u.s. ambassador was killed, u.s. diplomatic compound was overrun. there was a legitimate question or questions that can be asked. there are legitimate questions. that are not partisan. we want to know what happened and we want to make sure it doesn t happen again. while the vice president may be on the hot seat for that, you ve got congressman ryan just last night i watched an interview with senator ran paul who said he is taking, if you will, romney to the wood shed on wanting to spend more on defense budget, on wanting to perhaps be more active in syria. he you the ut terd the same lin