Part of me doubts this. I know a guy who plays poker with fireman whose pekinese knows a rotweiler whose owner is an optometrist who got into this vicious fight with another optometrist while scoping an ocular cavity (with a retinal spectrometer, of course). The optometrist whose dog is friends with the dog whose owner plays poker with the guy I know is a big Obama guy, of course. The other optometrist is as conservative as you can be; literally... kills abortion doctors, views all rape, even forcible, as illegitimate, thinks the government should pay him taxes simply for being in existence, separate but unequal, pray the gay away, humps his guns, all that and a bag of full fat chips he deep fries at home again because the government can't tell him what to fucking eat! After the Ryan pick, the conservative optometrist saw the other optometrist and said "Game changer. I hate Paul Ryan and am voting for Obama." Straight up, Ryan is having this effect. Seriously, I know this because of the one-off story I just told. Just one anecdote, and I know it and you better believe it too. And, it's not a flash in the pan, it's better described as steady momentum which keeps growing. I predict I'll have another fake story like this to tell you in a week or so... that's the kind of momentum we're talking about here. Obama/Biden 96.5 to Romney Ryan 7.13.
