Paul Ryan: We didn’t lose on Medicare

[DonViejo]

Posted by Felicia Sonmez on November 12, 2012 at 7:13 pm

In his first post-Election Day television interview, former GOP vice-presidential nominee Paul Ryan said Monday that he doesn’t believe that the 2012 White House campaign was a referendum on his plan to cut the federal budget and overhaul entitlement programs such as Medicare.

“I don’t think we lost it on those budget issues, especially on Medicare,” Ryan told Jessica Arp, a reporter for Madison CBS affiliate WISC-TV, when asked whether the race was a referendum on his budget blueprint.

When Mitt Romney announced Ryan as his running mate, Democrats vowed to make Medicare a centerpiece of the campaign. But exit polls suggest that the issue was not as potent as Democrats had believed it would be. The GOP ticket won seniors, for instance, 56 percent to 44 percent; those numbers are not too different from four years ago, when Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) won older voters 53 percent to 45 percent.

Among the potential reasons why the battle played out against Democrats’ expectations: Republicans aggressively countered Democrats’ messaging on Medicare with their own offensive, arguing that President Obama “robbed” $716 billion from the program to pay for Obamacare. The GOP ticket also emphasized at their campaign stops that their plan to overhaul the program would not affect current seniors.

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[Sedona]

1. In other news, elections have a liberal bias. nt

[JackN415]

2. De Nile is a river in Egypt n/t

[ProudProgressiveNow]

9. +1 nt

[BeyondGeography]

3. Paul Ryan: We lost?

How could we lose when I personally carried Wisconsin?

[Third Doctor]

4. Since Ryan said this that means it did.

They lost Florida too. I wonder how many smart seniors voted against Ryans Medicare plans.

[rsweets]

5. PAUL, if you want to save some shred of dignity STFU.

Just smile and nod your head... that's a good boy.

[bamacrat]

6. Yeah, that's kinda how it works Pauly boy. n/t

[doc03]

7. I kind agree with him, the Republicans pushed the Obama cut Medicare thing

for two years. I am retired myself and I know they did convince a lot of retirees thatObama cut Medicare. Just look at the age ofthe teabaggers, that's what
mainly got them fired up to begin with. I received probably a hundred calls from my Repug congressman over the last two years saying how Obama cut Medicare and
how hewas going protect it and strengthen it.

[Blue4Texas]

8. He needs to stay under the rock

He came from

[Iggo]

10. Shut up, Paul Ryan!