poll numbers by 13. the pick closes to ryan s negative one percentage point, dick cheney, who registered a net positive two points. small upticks could be republican trait. data shows below average gain for republicans in general. one consideration do voters know the person? in ryan s case certainly better than a year ago when you look at these numbers here. but still 35% either don t know him or are neutral. those who have an opinion, more believe ryan is out of step. now, for mr. biden, it s worse with a negative 9% on this very same question. and though ryan rates at the bottom of the vp bounce, the positive romney battleground increase was helped at least by ryan and his pick. not to mention though that battleground wisconsin, ryan s home state, now trending by some
that romney wasn t talking about the economy was a bad day for the romney campaign. wlfs the last time they talked about it. they re talking about welfare, adssh it s not the obama brand of 2008, i agree, but again he has just tactically speaking, i m not saying i agree with it, but he had more room, and he knows he can t run on the public satisfaction with the country. i don t agree with that. he has to make romney unacceptable, because he knows romney will not fall on his face. you ve got to drive him as bad as you can. speaking of bounces, will he get a vp bounce? we ll talk about that after the break. how many votes separated the winner and loser in the closest election in u.s. senate history. the answer that probably something only karla would have gotten right. it was 1974.