MILWAUKEE- Paul Ryan
held his final rally of the campaign in his home state late tonight
telling his fellow Wisconsinites that they may not have been in the
presidential spotlight in a long time and were taken "for granted," but
that time is now over, asking the crowd to "prove them wrong."
"They have always taken us for granted, Wisconsin,"
Ryan said to a crowd of 2,500 including Wisconsin political leaders and
many family members. "They thought it was easy. We haven't gone
Republican since 1984. One more day… Let's prove them wrong."
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The last time the Badger State went red in a presidential election was in 1984 when Ronald Reagan defeated Walter Mondale in a landslide, but Romney's selection of Ryan as a running mate has helped to put Wisconsin in contention.
The GOP vice presidential nominee, whose rally began while his running
mate's was still going on in New Hampshire and the president was also
holding his own final campaign event in Des Moines, Iowa, was introduced
by Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker who he warmly embraced when he took the stage. Walker noted that five months ago tonight he overcame the recall effort here.
"We've got one more left," Ryan said, referring to one more election.
"We've had a lot of elections here in Wisconsin lately. We know how they
work and we know how to win them."
Polls still suggest a slight lead for Preisdent Obama here, but
Republicans, including Ryan, frequently point to their success fending
off a recall of Walker and Republican state legislators as evidence of
an effective ground game. Tonight, he even noted "we know how to win…we
know how to get people to the polls."
Ryan told the raucous crowd- who continuously interrupted their
congressman with cheers-that this home state rally was a "special
moment" for him to be home in "God's country" and he and his young
family have had an "incredible" time on their two and half month sprint
to this moment.
"I've got to tell you the experience that Janna and Liza and Sam and
Charlie and I have had together, meeting with people around this country
has warmed our hearts it has been incredible, so many Americans have
come out to get their country back on the right track," Ryan said in
this airplane hangar standing in front of a massive "Victory in
Wisconsin" banner.
The rally that ended just before the clock struck November 6th, marked
the end of a marathon three day sprint around the country that took the
Wisconsin congressman to nine of the eleven states in contention. On
Monday he campaigned in five states in four time zones hopping out of
his campaign plane and into rallies mostly in airplane hangars in
Nevada, Colorado, Iowa, Ohio, and ending here.
Ryan will vote in his home town of Janesville tomorrow morning with his
wife, and although this evening was supposed to be his final event of
the 2012 cycle the Romney campaign added two more stops to the schedule
late Monday night. Ryan will return to Ohio tomorrow, stopping in
Cleveland then traveling to Richmond, Virginia before heading to Boston
to be with Romney as the results come in.
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