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• Mitt Romney put a campaign face on all that for Obama: Paul Ryan.
• Now Obama is attacking both the "do-nothing Congress" and Romney at once, two forces united as a target on the Republican presidential ticket. Going after votes in Iowa on Monday, Obama called Ryan the "ideological leader" of House Republicans and singled him out as "one of the leaders of Congress standing in the way" of a bill to help farmers in a time of disastrous drought.
• "I've gotten to know Congressman Ryan. He's a good man. He's a family man. He's a very articulate spokesperson for Governor Romney's vision," Obama said in Boone on the first of a three-day bus tour through Iowa. "The problem is it's the wrong vision for America. It's a vision that I fundamentally disagree with."

• Obama also has something with Ryan that he does not with the presumptive Republican nominee -- a relationship of sorts. Obama has laughed with Ryan, sparred with him and attacked his ideas right in front of him. Even their favorite football teams, Obama's Chicago Bears and Ryan's Green Bay Packers, are rivals.
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• DENVER (AP) -- The newly shaped Republican presidential ticket is fighting growing pains amid charges from President Barack Obama's re-election team that challenger Mitt Romney favors his new running mate's controversial plans to overhaul Medicare and cut trillions of dollars from social programs.
• The debate moves across five swing states as both campaigns operate at full strength for a second day.
• Romney will spend Tuesday in Ohio on the final day of his multistate bus tour, having dispatched his vice presidential pick, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, to court voters and donors in Colorado and Nevada. For all the advantages of having a running mate to share the workload, the Republicans are working through the challenge of planning double the events, coordinating messaging on the road, handling new security stresses and simply getting to know each other.
• All the while, Obama and Vice President Joe Biden are linking Romney to Ryan's House Republican budget proposals, which could affect millions of Americans -- seniors in particular -- if enacted.
• Obama is holding events in Iowa on the second day of a single-state bus tour, while Biden, who played the role of Obama's attack dog on Monday, is set to cam

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