> they are off and running indeed and we are running up the highway from the opening stop in forfolk virginia. and to richmond and then to northern virginia, romney is hitting all three regionings of political regions was virginia tide water where there is military familis and middle of the capitol and northern virginia where there is moderate voterss and all four of the states that romney will visit with running mate paul ryan today and then hit the states that barack obama took and romney needs to get. >> there is a series of polls that showed him trailing president obama by a significant number and nine point in the fox news poll and 7 point in the cnn poll and that upped the pressure for him to make the bold pick. will this reset the race. this is the bold pick so many republicans looked for. >> heone of the things they talked about. mr. romney made the decision to pick paul ryan on the first of the month. that's when he told seth meyers that he picked ryan. that was several days back. and so before the polls. but just yesterday, mr. romney's aids said in their view that the polls are not