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Romney goes "big" in choosing Ryan as running mate

WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Republican Party's presumed presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Saturday defied perception of him as a guy who plays it safe by choosing Paul Ryan -- a young, wonky U.S. Representative from Wisconsin, a state in the Midwest -- as his running mate.

Being the architect behind a controversial Congress budget plan that slashes spending, cuts taxes and privatizes parts of Medicare, Ryan puts the ideological differences between Republicans and Democrats on government spending and ways to grow the economy squarely back to the presidential debate.

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