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Is Paul Ryan vulnerable?
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| Contributor | COSDem |
| Last Edited | COSDem Apr 25, 2011 07:05pm |
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| Category | Speculative |
| Media | Newspaper - Washington Post |
| News Date | Tuesday, April 26, 2011 01:05:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) got booed at a town hall last week. A recent AP article found voters in his district are worried about his plans. The liberal advocacy group Americans United for Change just started running television ads in his district, featuring a senior citizen asking why “a nice young man” like Ryan would want to “end Medicare.”
51 percent for President Obama in 2008. So some Democrats are asking whether they can take a symbolic scalp next year by defeating the architect of the Republicans’ budget plan.
The argument: Ryan flew under the radar for years, even occasionally breaking with his party to bolster his standing in his blue collar, Rust Belt district. For example, he voted for the 2009 auto bailout — his district has two auto plants.
"A lot of guys get to vote how they want, then go home and go fishing,” he told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in 2009. “I've got to vote and then go home and explain what I did and why I did it." But he’s more conservative than his constituents. Now that he’s released a budget that would drastically overhaul Medicare, Democrats think they can make that clear. |
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