Posted on 08/12/2012 7:37:40 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The media has talked about Paul Ryan's budget as an albatross that would hang from Mitt Romney's neck with or without Ryan on the ticket, and the assumption has been that Ryan himself will also be a net negative for the GOP in November. Democrats tried to proactively damage Ryan's standing with voters by depicting him pushing an elderly woman off of a cliff in May 2011, when Ryan first proposed his comprehensive, long-term budget reform package in May 2011. Rasmussen Reports has reminds us that a July survey showed Ryan's favorability as mainly positive, albeit with a significant number of likely voters who need more time to make up their minds:
Mitt Romney announced this morning that Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan will be his running mate.
Earlier polling found that 39% of all voters had a favorable opinion of Ryan, while 25% offered a negative review. Thirty-five percent (35%) express no opinion of Ryan. The congressman is relatively unknown to the nation at large. Only a third of voters have a strong opinion in either direction.
Wisconsin is a state both sides consider key to the presidential election. Right now, President Obama has a modest three-point lead over Romney in the state, and it remains a Toss-Up in the Rasmussen Reports Electoral College Projections.
Scott Rasmussen has explained why Romneys roll-out of his vice presidential pick is as important as the choice itself. Most Americans will learn all they know about the new name on the ticket during the week the candidate is introduced, he wrote in a recent newspaper column. While 69% of Republicans have a favorable opinion of Ryan, 42% of voters not affiliated with either major political party have no opinion of him one way or the other at this point.
Let’s take a look at the demos from that July poll. What leaps out from that survey is that Ryan actually does better among independents than any of the other presumed short-listers, save Condoleezza Rice, who wasn’t really shortlisted at all. Among unaffiliated voters, Ryan scores a 36/22 favorability, compared to 31/29 for Bobby Jindal, 26/28 for Tim Pawlenty, and a dismal 15/16 for Rob Portman. (Rice was 63/19 among indies.) Ryan also scores best among women, albeit with a narrow 29/25 edge.
For even more counterintuitive results, look at Ryan’s standing among seniors. Despite the attacks on Ryan over his budget plan, he’s easily the most liked of the short-listers among likely voters 65 years of age and over, with a 52/29 favorability rating. His “very favorable” rating of 31% in the 65+ group is more than 10 points better than the other shortlisters in the Rasmussen survey (again, save Rice). Jindal did well, too, with a 44/28, as did Pawlenty with a 40/30 and Portman at 37/26, but Ryan’s draw among seniors outpaced all of them. Ryan has plenty of room to be defined in either direction with 35% of voters overall not having an opinion, but that’s only true of 20% of seniors — and Ryan already has a majority of them on his side.
Looks like the Ryan choice was both bold and pragmatic. It still means that Romney and Ryan have to aggressively push to define Ryan themselves, rather than allow the media or the Obama team do it first.
Update: Commenter Florah Duh reminds me that seniors actually liked Ryan’s plan best, according to a Gallup poll in 2011:
A new Gallup/USA Today poll contains a counterintuitive finding: the age group most receptive to House Budget Chair Paul Ryan‘s plan to deal with the budget – seniors.
The poll finds 48 percent of seniors (those 65 and over) support Ryan’s plan over President Obama‘s plan, while 42 percent back the president.
That’s the highest total among the age groups tested – a 47 percent plurality between the ages of 50 and 64 backed Ryan, and a 45 percent plurality of those between 30-49 backed Ryan. But young voters overwhelmingly sided with Obama by a 23-point margin, 53 to 30 percent.
Maybe that’s because seniors knew better than to believe that the current trajectory would protect their benefits in anything but the short run.
Now is the time for him to get to Florida and clearly explain his plan. Do not let Obama’s people define him as they have already started.
But young voters overwhelmingly sided with Obama by a 23-point margin, 53 to 30 percent.
So take her to the DMV and have her get a non~drivers liscense.
are you serious?
She is elderly but can;t get the proper ID, what on earth has she been doing for her life, ow does she get around, how does she get her benefits?
Sorry if you are serious and not a troll but that post of yours is what the elft state but I’ll also answer your question.
Why are we playing with voter ID laws.
Well it;s to stop illegals, dead people and those wanting to vote more than once.
Only the Dems want no ID but they demand ID for Amtrak, to fly, to get beer, cigs, etc
If someone has no one and lets say they have gone through life never having to show a photo ID which is impossible today then take her to the DMV and get the ID, simple isn’;t it.
your past posts are very interesting.
AGREED
You need one for just about everything today , hell my MIL had to show hers 3 times before she even got on the train Amtrak.
What elderly person today does ot have the ID and canot get to the DMV
Asking why we need ID to vote shows why th eleft are just either plain dumb or ignoant
WOW.. just WOW!! A... er.... ah... Do you want to rethink that BS.. I'll wait..
We seniors have to pull out ID's almost every time we leave the house.. Medicine, wrote or cashed a Check, Travel, any Gov office for Social Security, Medicare.. or ever bought a drink, a bottle of beer, liquor, a pack of cigarette, cigar, pipe, prescribed pills, used a credit card with cash back..etc (rolling eyes)
He or she, has never had a hospital visit, driven an auto, or visited a relative in another state, by any other method than your overwhelming/sacrificial/humanitarian, volunteerism??
I think I'd love to know a bit more about your relatives' advanced age, 110+, and your unique generosity to our cause, and pearl clutching, advice..
Maybe we should watch out for all of these people that are still living in cages, and caves, OR, maybe we should just watch out for lurkers.. Hummmmm?.. jus sayin
“Commenter Florah Duh reminds”
Florah Duh??? Real name? Sounds like Florida.
Questions:Answers:
1) At what age must one be to be considered a Senior?
2) What percentage of the voting public are seniors?
3) How likely are Seniors to vote compared to other age groups?
NOTE: The above is the best way I know of answering without 6 hours of searching Bing for Pie Charts and Graphs. (not trying to be sarcastic or disrespectful)
Now as to the article.....
No surprise with the numbers. 'Seniors' aren't like Moonbats who fall for mindless sound-bites. 'We' can all read and still comprehend what we're reading, unlike most Moonbats. And most of us seniors can still wash and dress ourselves in the morning -- also unlike the Moonbats
The fact is that the days of: 'The AARP Senior' are over. AARP screwed the pooch big-time by their lies and playing mouth piece for the RATS Commies (there aren't any rats left in the democRATic Party). I think AARP stays in business by selling insurance. Membership has dropped like a rock.
Gotta run now. This 'Senior' has to get out his Fender Statocaster™ now and Jam to some Rock and Rock. Think I'll warm up to Roll With The Changes by REO Speedwagon
I guess I am almost a senior since I am 60. But I have no plans to ever retire although my wife who is 62 is already retired. Not only do we support Ryan, we wish he would take Obama out behind the woodshed and whip his ass.
Go Away Troll
If they can get a handicapped sticker for their car, they can get a voter id.
I believe that NJ requires an ID only if voters didn't present one when registering. Has your relative never voted before?
Maybe the seniors are starting to realize you can’t collect medicare benefits, RX benefits, etc. IF THE PLAN IS TO LET YOU DIE because you are a drain on the system.
My guess is that M & D are able to smoke doobie and still vote. |
And be able to cite the exact page of obamacare where the proof appears.
But but but Mister Obama YOU SAID we can scare seniors because they’re all old and stupid; this doesn’t look like they are old and stupid to me Mister Obama does it look like that to you?
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