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2. Ryan's budget proposals have included big changes to Medicare - including gradually replacing the program with a voucher program for private health care, and gradually raising the retirement age. That could scare older Americans, a crucial voting bloc.

3. He voted for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP. While a lot of other Republicans did too, and it was proposed by the Bush administration, some have viewed it as a rejection of the conservative economic values Ryan and hard-line fiscal conservatives espouse.

4. He's easily pegged as Washington insider. He's been in Congress since 1999, and before that he worked as a congressional staffer. Congressional approval ratings are abysmally low- a recent CBS News/NY Times poll showed that only 12 percent of voters approve of the way Congress is doing its job.

5. This is both a pro and a con to Ryan, depending on who you ask, but he's notably further to the left on the issue of lesbian, bisexual, happy and transgender rights than the base of the party. He broke with a lot of his party to support the Employee Non-Discrimination Act in 2007. He explained his reasoning for the vote in this way: "They [his happy friends] didn't roll out of bed one morning and choose to be happy. That's who they are."

Romney and Ryan IMHO will get this country back on track economically.

They will get our fiscal house in order by cutting back on out of control spending and paying down the outrageous 16 trillion dollar deficit created by the food stamp, welfare check, freebie handout prez that's now in office.

Romney and Ryan in 012!

i saw an article about a poll that said most people disapprove of congress and think they all should be voted out except the congress people in their own district. that's the kind of thinking we're dealing with these days

that PLUS Jerrymandered congressional districts where they NEVER change parties is about three-quarters of the Congress