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A G.O.P. Reunion, With Plans for More Togetherness
By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. and ASHLEY PARKER, NYT
VANDALIA, Ohio — For the first time in almost a month, Mitt Romney reunited on Tuesday with the man who many Republicans thought would charge up the presidential campaign: Representative Paul D. Ryan, the charismatic PowerPoint-wielder who can draw thousands to rallies that are really mostly giant question-and-answer sessions where they can ask “Paul,” in effect, how to save the party, and the country.
The question now is whether Mr. Ryan, Mr. Romney’s vice-presidential running mate, can save his own ticket.
Mr. Ryan often seems to get people more fired up about Mr. Romney’s message than Mr. Romney does at his own rallies. But the last few weeks have been one step forward, two steps backward for the Republican ticket, capped by the disclosure of a video showing Mr. Romney telling people at a high-dollar fund-raiser that 47 percent of Americans consider themselves “victims” and are dependent on the government.
And so on Tuesday afternoon, two men in windbreakers — Mr. Romney, 65, and Mr. Ryan, who at 42 is the same age as Mr. Romney’s eldest son — got together on a windy tarmac outside Dayton that seemed to represent just how tough their challenge now is as new polls showed them trailing President Obama by significant margins in Ohio, a state considered critical for Republicans.
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VANDALIA, Ohio — For the first time in almost a month, Mitt Romney reunited on Tuesday with the man who many Republicans thought would charge up the presidential campaign: Representative Paul D. Ryan, the charismatic PowerPoint-wielder who can draw thousands to rallies that are really mostly giant question-and-answer sessions where they can ask “Paul,” in effect, how to save the party, and the country.
The question now is whether Mr. Ryan, Mr. Romney’s vice-presidential running mate, can save his own ticket.
Mr. Ryan often seems to get people more fired up about Mr. Romney’s message than Mr. Romney does at his own rallies. But the last few weeks have been one step forward, two steps backward for the Republican ticket, capped by the disclosure of a video showing Mr. Romney telling people at a high-dollar fund-raiser that 47 percent of Americans consider themselves “victims” and are dependent on the government.
And so on Tuesday afternoon, two men in windbreakers — Mr. Romney, 65, and Mr. Ryan, who at 42 is the same age as Mr. Romney’s eldest son — got together on a windy tarmac outside Dayton that seemed to represent just how tough their challenge now is as new polls showed them trailing President Obama by significant margins in Ohio, a state considered critical for Republicans.
(More here.)
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