Although they differed as to their reasons, Republican and Democratic visitors to the Missouri State Fair on Monday agreed: Paul Ryan was a good choice to round out the Mitt Romney ticket in the 2012 presidential election.
Ryan, a seven-term Republican congressman from Wisconsin and chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Budget Committee, was announced with fanfare on Saturday aboard the USS Wisconsin in Virginia.
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