If Paul Ryan is as smart as everyone says he is, why can't he read the polls and understand how unpopular his Medicare plan is?

Greg Sargent, in the Washington Post:

If Paul Ryan really believes what he said about his Medicare plan in this interview with a local Wisconsin TV station, then he is in total denial about how unpopular his proposal really is — and how much of a jam it created for his fellow Republicans:

“Those polls don’t describe it very well. When the plan is described accurately, it actually polls very well,” Ryan claims.

Hmm, or maybe this is just false. [Then he runs through the evidence.]

More, and a link, here from Jim Rowen.