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That's because both candidates won't change Medicare or FICA in any way. Wouldn't be a useful comparison.

Have you read Ryan's budget from last year? He totally wants to change Medicare, and now that he's on the ticket, he may get Romney to do it, especially if they don't look like they stand a chance at a 2016 re-election.

Ryan's budget and then follow on inclusion on this ticket might permanently kill the ability of the Republican party to elect someone to the presidency, if seniors (who vote primarily Republican) cross to the Democratic side of the ticket for their votes to protect their medicare. (Once someone has voted for candidates in both parties, they are considerably more likely to cross over and do so again in future elections).

Unemployment will most certainly be different between them.

Care to lay odds that Ryan will distance himself from his medicare proposal?

I think that's pretty much impossible the news and Congress haven't been able to shut up about "The Ryan Plan"

Ryan already tried to pass his budget in Congress. Why are you assuming that if he leaves Congress to become Vice President his budget will have more of a chance of passing?

Vs a democratic senate and democratic president is VERY different than VS a democratic senate and a republican president or all three republican.

His particular seat is not as valuable as being the brain trust and hit man in the Romney Ryan administration.

I thought I read somewhere that because of the neuroplasticity reduction in the brain as you age, that as people get older they are less accepting of change and trend towards conservatism.

I can't find a good article to back that up with, though, so ymmv.

My own anecdotal evidence is that people believe what their news sources say more than they actually crunch numbers, so because of the polarization of news along political party lines people are going to believe whatever they see or read.

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