US ELECTION
Romney makes smart pick
- Published: 13 Aug 2012 at 00.00
- Newspaper section: News
In the first hours after US presidential hopeful Mitt Romney picked a young politician as his candidate for vice-president, the choice clearly turned the campaign from the silly season to the election season.
Paul Ryan, a 43-year-old congressman from the biggest US cheese-producing state of Wisconsin, grabbed attention and headlines like almost no other choice could have.
This was a gutsy, risk-taking move by Mr Romney, often described accurately as the most boring man to run for president in the memory of living Americans.
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