[icwhatudo]

Facts don’t matter. The pick of Biden hurt Obama in the polls, the pick of Palin helped McCain in the polls. I even joked on FR right after the election that they will try and convince us that Palin hurt the ticket. It was so laughable I took some heat for it. Now its repeated as fact over and over again in any article about picking a VP.

If Romney loses it will not be because he was a rino that did not attract enough support from the conservative base-it will be because Ryan was a horrible pick of an ideologue and the GOP must moderate.

[Joe 6-pack]

New Peter Gabriel song in 5....4....3....2....

[Poison Pill]

Intrade line up 4 pts. since the Ryan pick.

[vekzen]

President Axelrod and his minions are hard at work trying to invent a bimbo or racist connection to Ryan. Remember what happened to Cain?

[Pollster1]

Online Fundraising

* Donations: 124,800+
* Amount: $10,157,947
* Average Donation: $81
* % New Donors: 68%

How's Mitt faring in the social media and web world since the Ryan announcement?

* Site Traffic – Total: 2,000,000
* Mitt Romney Facebook: +510,000 — Now 4,360,000
* Mitt Romney Twitter: +54,000 — Now 861,000
* Paul Ryan Facebook: +860,000
* Paul Ryan Twitter: +118,500
* Volunteers 45,000+ sign up to volunteer online

That's lovely but irrelevant. The meaningful question is: How do those numbers compare with the week before Ryan was announced? I'm not saying Ryan was a bad choice - he's an amazingly capable choice that I would not have expected from Romney. These numbers just don't tell us whether the Ryan pick is actually helping. For that, Intrade is probably the best current information - so, yes, the Ryan pick is working so far.

[Fresh Wind]

[beenaround]

It would be helpful to know the actual cash increase in this week after the pick of Ryan, versus the previous week or the same week in the previous month.

[Delhi Rebels]

...but that’s got to be a pretty encouraging set of numbers for America’s Comeback Team.

Similar numbers were rung up when Palin was announced as VP candidate in 2008, and she was unable to drag a lackluster top of the ticket into the winners circle.

[Hotlanta Mike]

As Don Meredith used to sing “Turn out the lights, the party’s over”.