people have to make judgment calls on where they think federal dollars should go. medicare s on the same path spending wise under obama and ryan. it will grow gdp plus 0.5%. obama tries to make that work by changing things on the provider and payment side. ryan does it by moving to a voucher program. if you re voting on medicare in the direction you think will be more effective. take a look at this romney campaign ad. it s the new tv ad attacking the president on medicare coming from romney s side. you paid into medicare for years. every paycheck. now when you need it, obama has cut $716 billion from medicare. why? to pay for obama care. so now the money you paid for your guaranteed health care is is going to a massive new government program that s not for you. the romney ryan plan protects medicare benefits for today s seniors and strengthens the plan for the next generation. again, the obama campaign had
medicare by $700 billion. what would they do? they are capped in ryan s budget so they agree on those cuts. as for they say oh, they don t have a plan. we have a plan to reform medicare to cut the growth of spending. romney and ryan and obama, at least ryan and obama, have the exact same envisioned spending path for medicare, gdp plus 0.5%. they get it in different ways and people can argue about which is more likely to work. but the degree to which this conversation has had no relationship to the actual specifics of the policies is fundamentally infuriating to me. for anybody that is interested in specifics, or finding out what paul ryan has actually been up to in the last few years, please go read ezra klein and jonathan chait. thank you for joining us today. after the break, did you know that paul ryan once spent a summer selling processed lunch meat for oscar meyer? there s a metaphor in there somewhere.
according to our math here he s got about 77 more delegates at least on his quest to the 1,144 needed to clinch the nomination. now, that means he s halfway there according to my math. about 57% of the delegates he need. tom foreman is here, hat trick, no small feat here. how did he do it? well, you know, a hat trick you have a bunch of hats thrown on the ice. what he s got is a big number change. look at this. that was the number coming into tonight. watch it tick over here. 648 now just as importantly, rick santorum s number did not move at all. i want to look at a little of how he did. move into the national map here. that s some areas where he had some more intense wins than others. you see where santorum won down here and romney here. the darkest areas is where romney really dominated. those were the big power counties down here. milwaukee county and walkashaw county, kenosha county. that s one of the areas he did really well. one of the others is the demographics and
needed to clinch the nomination. now, that means he s halfway there according to my math. about 57% of the delegates he need. tom foreman is here, hat trick, no small feat here. how did he do it? well, you know, a hat trick you have a bunch of hats thrown on the ice. what he s got is a big number change. look at this. that was the number coming into tonight. watch it tick over here. 648 now just as importantly, rick santorum s number did not move at all. i want to look at a little of how he did. move into the national map here. that s some areas where he had some more intense wins than others. you see where santorum won down here and romney here. the darkest areas is where romney really dominated. those were the big power counties down here. milwaukee county and walkashaw county, kenosha county. that s one of the areas he did really well. one of the others is the demographics and the opinion of the tea party. tea party voters here, people who support the tea party, this is