throw out there and the whole privatization. ryan wanted to start defending privatization and sort of checked himself. he went, wait a minute, that s not the romney position. ditto with abortion where he seemed to basically say i thought at first he was handling the abortion question well. then he said, look a ryan administration isn t going to do this. that s where he seemed uncomfortable doing that. i think that that was clearly part of the goal. i think what biden telegraphed is you re going to see the president cherry pick, i think, what worked the best in focus group and tests. biden threw everything at the wall. they re going to look to see what s the one the president should pull out and use to put romney on the defensive. i think that s how they re going to analyze this debate over the next couple of days. nbc s chuck todd, thank you very much. i appreciate it. bottom line, we said heading into this that the democrats wanted to arrest the momentum from last week. we don t h
privatization. ryan wanted to start defending privatization and sort of checked himself. he went, wait a minute, that s not the romney position. ditto with abortion where he seemed to basically say i thought at first he was handling the abortion question well. then he said, look a ryan administration isn t going to do this. that s where he seemed uncomfortable doing that. i think that that was clearly part of the goal. i think what biden telegraphed is you re going to see the president cherry pick, i think, what worked the best in focus group and tests. biden threw everything at the wall. they re going to look to see what s the one the president should pull out and use to put romney on the defensive. i think that s how they re going to analyze this debate over the next couple of days. nbc s chuck todd, thank you very much. i appreciate it. bottom line, we said heading into this that the democrats wanted to arrest the momentum from last week. we don t have a lot of time. do you thin