Obama Tops Romney on Medicare

Americans see Social Security and Medicare as earned benefits, not handouts. Folks in many cases have paid decades of taxes to support the system. By the time they reach retirement they expect to cash out. So conservative proposals to shore up the system always face stiff headwinds, not because we don't need reform either. Even if reforms won't effect current retirees, folks still think changing the structure of benefits will gut the nature of the entitlement. We had a debate on this in 2005, when President Bush sought to restructure Social Security and Medicare. So it's no surprise that Romney/Ryan haven't been getting much support here. USA Today has some numbers on that, "Romney fights on Medicare but Obama retains advantage." And Paul Ryan got booed yesterday at the AARP convention: