This Is Now the Most Important Election Since 1980

Aug. 11 (Bloomberg) -- The Obama campaign wasted no timeblasting Mitt Romney’s selection of Representative Paul Ryan asa running mate.

Ryan, a Wisconsin Republican, had not finished hisacceptance speech when President Barack Obama’s campaignmanager, Jim Messina, released a statement blasting him forfavoring “new budget-busting tax cuts for the wealthy, whileplacing greater burdens on the middle class and seniors.” Ryan’s“radical” budget plan, Messina added, “would end Medicare as weknow it by turning it into a voucher system, shifting thousandsof dollars in health-care costs to seniors.”