Recent polls have shown Mitt Romney trailing behind President Obama. Will the choice of Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate inspire more support from voters? NBC's Andrea Mitchell talks with NBC's Chuck Todd.
Mitt Romney's choice for vice president may have excited the Republican base, but it has yet to catch fire with most American voters.
According to a Reuters/Ipsos poll out today, 26 percent said they viewed Romney more favorably after he added Congressman Paul Ryan to the ticket on Saturday, while 23 percent said they viewed him less favorably.
And by a margin of 44 percent to 29 percent, voters said Vice President Joe Biden is more qualified than Ryan to serve as president.
Meantime, a USA Today/Gallup Poll, also released today, found that 42% see Ryan as a "fair" or "poor" choice, while 39% rated him as "pretty good" or "excellent" vice-presidential choice.
While Ryan rates worse than Dick Cheney in 2000 and Sarah Palin in 2008 in this category, he does poll better than Dan Quayle did in 1988.
The poll also found 17% of adults say they are more likely to vote for Romney in November because Ryan is his running mate. That's slightly less than 18% of Americans who said the same for John McCain following Sarah Palin’s vice presidential nomination in 2008.
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This is the same question that the other polls are asking! Your personal attack is out of bounds!
the righty.... feeling down? Ryan is going to drag poor Woodman Rompey into a hugh hole! Love it!
ryan has alot of work to do ---- hah ---- What = did he get a JOB in a Factory ????? Ha ha haaa ha haaaaa - He Wouldn't last a day in a Factory !!!! Yeah And THEY Are Against UNIONS -- HAH -- Just What Do Call THEIR UNION ????????????
Job in a factory? The same Paul Ryan that's never worked a real job in his life? The same Paul Ryan that's been in Congress for almost a decade and a half and passed two bills (one to rename a post office and another to lower taxes on arrows)?
Ryan can spell potato. Great qualifications and the other has 5 digits and can hold a pen!
Fire them both, where is the trump when you need him? He seems to have shut up. Even he doesn't want to talk about this mistake.
No vultures,
no vouchers.
won't make any differnce how much work he has to do won't do any good, and to say he's worse than palin, roflmao.
Hey Ryan/ramney.....
Did we protect the poor?
Did we protect the hard working?
Did we help the college kid?
Did we protect the unemployeed?
Did we protect our country and the people in it?
Did we protect those who need protecting most?
DID WE PROTECT THE RICH??????????????????????
^Right-wing troll, working for the Koch brothers.
Guess he gave up pretending he's from Canada.
Like he was fooling anyone except himself. Notice whines about 4 years of Obama and ignores 34 years of GOP blunders and failures.
And there is no Tea in Cananda..and they support gun laws. Canada Ha ha ha!
I think we need to build a fence to keep out the riff-raff!
He's still casting that one, single vote for himself.
Gee, why should that matter to a Canadian?
He has or is a sock puppet and the second point is from himself because tea bagged republicans don't point each other.
@1.17. Those two votes your bragging about; one from you and one from righty. Pretty obvious.
i know that Supreme court ruled no limits on campaign financing, but u would have 2 think as an idiotic or naive American to not think that those Supreme court judges did not get "bought - off." to pass such an assinine law. some1 paid them off to rule that way, against most Americans' wishes. money should not be an issue in any campaign, this is democracy people, not an auction. this country is seriously going down the drain.
The wheezing sound we all here is our democracy being smothered by money.
Paul Ryan is a worshipper of Ayn Rand, he is not bold nor courageous. Not right or correct on what must be done for the nation. His budget reflects that. Paul Ryan has a ton of work to do in convincing the American people to be comfortable with a man whose political inspiration is someone who believes in the inherent morality of total selfishness.
I would think that Ryan and his war against social security, medicare and health care and his ties with the Atheist austerity leader Ayn Rand, would put him in a black hole for both republican evangelicals, elderly republicans, and religious democrats.
He also has used some very racist words in his past.
oh tr and wrongy quit crying about ed being picky in his poll, all the polls say the same thing. you're only saying this because of your hatred for OBAMA. you can't tell us any different. OBAMA 2012
Wow. You're really desperate for company.
How did you get internet privileges, anyway? Take all your meds?
Love how you cherry pick the Polls ED
why don't you tell your loony liberals about all the numbers and use the most accurate, reliable, and trusted polls like Rasmussen and Gallop, and not some Democrat biased network poll that always over sample democrats as much as 16 points
Rasmussen who is the most accurate because they poll likely voters has Romney up by +3
Gallop who polls registered voters have them tied
and what is most interesting in the polls even after the left with their relentless lying mediscare Ryan has the highest favorable rating amongst seniors
The same thing that the GOP biased network like Fox News does to make POTUS look bad!
um, the POTUS is making himself look bad. Nohelp from anyone.
Just keep pretending the Bush administration never happened. Keep pretending that the same people who were in the congress and the senate that crashed the economy during the Bush administration aren't still there trying to do the same thing.
You're not fooling anyone.
Strange how everyone has an opinion about the President from a racist perspective, but none of you actually have plans to make things better for "this great nation" you talk so proudly about. Lies and greed from the GOP
has put this country under a train for years and all you people think about is trash lying the President. Every poll has it's limits. And when the truth is heard, too few know it when they hear it. Glad I can think for myself as an educated African American woman.
Apparently you are NOT thinking for yourself. The loony left see race in EVERY post, yours especially. Nowhere in this string did ANYONE post something about race. Oh, only you. Get over yourself and understand that conservatives and many democrats do not like Obama because of his failed policies, not his freakin race. I do understand you are paid by Ed to make one post and split so it looks like ed has alot more viewers than he really does. I do not expect a reply, so surprise me.
i know Supreme court ruled no limit on campaign financing, but u would have 2b a naive American to think Supereme Court judges did not get "bought off "2 pass such a meddlesome law. this is democracy, not a public auction. democracy has truly taken the wrong path. when money is allowed 2b an influencing factor in democratic processess, u know that Democracy has taken a turn 4 the worse. politicians r the greatest liars, hired 2 do will of the rich. politicians r puppets of the rich. their word is not 2b trusted.
Excellent in the sense it will be mah-velous for the Democrats! I swear the Reps are doing everything they can to lose this race!
I' ll try to respond with as much politics aside as I can. I think he was a poor choice for America. If Rooney were to win, I would have like to have seen a more centrist person.
I think it is a good choice from an Obama perspective, maybe not so good for Pinocchio-Romney
Can you please check out Ryan taxes as well as Romney? From Jonathon Alter Tweet http://bit.ly/Nyz3uX
It's a good choice in the respect of getting Ryan out of the house. Can't run for 2 offices at the same time. He was up for re-election as Rep.
Larry, so does that mean after they lose in Nov. they will both be out of a job?
Larry - Ryan is allowed to run for both his House seat and the Vice Presidency in November. It falls under the "LBJ" rule. Biden did it in 2008, Lieberman did it in 2000, and Lloyd Benson (Dukakis' running mate in 1988) did it as well. It depends on the state, Wisconsin does allow it.
Ryan is a hypocrite all the tea baggers are for term limits..Gee how long has this do nothing tea bagger been in Washington?
Oh, Canada.
Take off, eh?
People need to look at his record! Boo
Always amusing when the righties insist that we should be following Rasmussen polls. The one outfit that reliably skews to the Murdoch media. It's all about bad sampling and misleading questions. Every time you Ayn Rand loons quote Rasmussen (oh, and Zogby) there's going to be someone here to remind the uninformed of those organizations' biases. Fuggetaboutit.
What's really funny is that Murdoch's media (Fox News) has Obama ahead 9 points in their poll. Interesting that you never see the righties mentioning that one.
oh don't we know carianne. i laughed so hard when i saw that from fake news. those repukes's heads ar about ready to explode.
Geez, how many people do you guys have in that broom locker typing stupid posts. Billie, how long did it take you to come up with wrongy? I'm sure more than just a few minutes. Wow!!
Feeling bugged, bugsy?
Nope, actually feeling pretty good! You?
The insults of a 12-year old from someone who behaves like a 6-year old. I guess that's a step in the right direction for you.
I'm not sure how to answer the poll...as a Dem, I think Romney made an EXCELLENT choice, because I think he guaranteed Obama the win. If I were a Repub, I would probably answer differently.
The stakes have never been anywhere near this large in any election, so the last thing I would want to be is overconfident.
We know thats a lie, you can't make friends from the states when US conservatives can't stomach anything Canadian, its their hatred of Canada's single payer health care behind the bigotry which is how we know you are a fake.
Has any of these right wingers even bother to read Ryan's budget to see how bad it is? Some of these folks will be shocked! Then again, maybe not! They will vote against their own best interests just to defeat Prez Obama!
Has any of you loony lefties ever bother to read Obama's budget to see how bad it is? Oh, wait, there hasn't been one in over three years. We are voting against Obama to PRESERVE our self interests.
Democrats shouldn't get complacent or overconfident. As much of an extremist as Ryan is, Dems still have to deal with unlimited Citizens United money, un-American voter suppression efforts, and unprecedented Republican dirty tricks.
Donn't worry verteran, we are not sitting on our butts......we are out there working. What does your bumper sticker read.....all of mine read "OBAMA"
hey mom i have one that says DEFEAT MITT and it's in pink. that's funny right there.
Now it should say DEFEAT R&R ( on PINK)
Our Obama Group have decide to only
post Obama one......nothing with robme's name anywhere......don't even bring him to mind.
Um, Billie no it's not.
Mitt's pick of Rick shows he has been bought lock, stock and barrell by the tea Party.
And here we go again here is a clue fake, Canadians could care less about Marxists, only a dumb American would claim Canadian conservatives think the same as their US counterparts. Canadian conservatives are left of Obama ffs,
Really?? Apparently, not all of them. (Remove the space between the //'s after you copy and paste to your search engine.)
http:/ /thechronicleherald.ca/opinion/121050-goodman-canadians-love-democrats-but-republicans-friendlier
You might want to read the comments below the article too.
As a Liberal it sounds like the GOP got exactly the man they want on this ticket...
Unfortuanately for them - - Romney is still at the top!
A#kt the top of what the s#i+ heap?
Mitt's pick of Paul Ryan is evidence that he has been bought by the Loch brothers and the tea party.
Who did they poll Mr. Potato head!
rassmussen polled republicans wealthiest. ......I didn't get a call, did you?
Maybe that should be our poll tonight, that would be fair. Who do you think should be president?.....THE ED SHOW POLL>
The thing I think if Romney was a candidate who wants to win he would not have picked ryan,,,,,,thus in this pool I voted he was a poor choice.
But for Obama , he is a great choice.
There are only two guys in this race Obama & Biden!