“I thought Paul Ryan came out looking very responsible and intelligent, and personally I did not think the vice president did,” said Susan Seifert, a 65-year-old retired housewife who lives on a farm in rural Ohio and brought her 16-year-old granddaughter here to see Ryan and Romney the day after the debate. Given the way he acted, she said — “all that smirking and grinning” — Biden “doesn’t seem to be taking the country very seriously.”
Several older women I met at the rally put it in similar terms: Ryan, 42, struck them as a nice young man, Biden, 69, a grating boor. Some Republicans might have wished Ryan pushed back harder against Biden’s aggressive assault, but these ladies appreciate that he minded his manners…
“I thought Paul Ryan was respectful and knowledgeable. He was head and shoulders above the other man,” said Nancy Runion, a 58-year-old office manager from Findlay, Ohio, who drove two and a half hours to the rally in Lancaster. “Biden was very disrespectful. But Paul Ryan showed a lot of character.”
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