Vice presidential candidacy of Paul Ryan

Congressman Paul Ryan was chosen by the Mitt Romney 2012 campaign as the Vice-Presidential Nominee of the United States Republican Party.
On August 11, 2012, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney announced that he had selected Ryan to be his vice-presidential running mate. Ryan was also running for re-election to his seat in the House of Representatives in November 2012. Ryan was officially nominated at the Republican convention in Tampa on August 29, 2012.
Congressmen as Vice Presidential candidates
In the United States, most Presidential and Vice-Presidential nominees are governors or senators. It is somewhat rare for members of the House of Representatives to be nominated—the last time a sitting House member had been nominated by a major party as VP was 28 years earlier, when Geraldine Ferraro was nominated in 1984. The last time a sitting House member won the Vice-Presidency was 80 years prior to the Ryan pick: In 1932, House Speaker John Nance Garner was elected to the Vice-Presidency under President Franklin Roosevelt.
Selection
Dan Balz of The Washington Post wrote that Ryan was promoted as a candidate for Vice President "by major elements of the conservative opinion makers, including The Wall Street Journal editorial page, the Weekly Standard and the editor of National Review."
Rollout
On August 11, 2012 the Romney campaign officially announced Ryan as its choice for Vice President through its "Mitt's VP" mobile app as well as by the social networking service Twitter, about 90 minutes before Romney's in-person introduction. Before the official announcement in Norfolk, it was reported that Romney had decided to choose Ryan on August 1, 2012, the day after returning from his foreign trip through the United Kingdom, Poland and Israel. On August 11, 2012, Ryan formally accepted Romney's invitation to join his campaign as his running mate, in front of the in Norfolk, Virginia. Ryan is the major parties' first-ever vice-presidential candidate from Wisconsin.
According to a statistical-historical analysis conducted by Nate Silver, "Ryan is the most conservative Republican member of Congress to be picked for the vice-presidential slot since at least 1900" and "is also more conservative than any Democratic nominee was liberal, meaning that he is the furthest from the center" of any vice presidential candidate chosen from Congress since the turn of the 20th century. This analysis, using the DW-NOMINATE statistical system, Political scientist Eric Schickler commented that while Ryan "may well be the most conservative vice presidential nominee in decades," the NOMINATE methodology "is not suited to making claims about the relative liberalism or conservatism of politicians" over a long time span.
Convention
Ryan formally accepted his nomination at the 2012 Republican National Convention on August 29, 2012. In his acceptance speech, he promoted Mitt Romney as the presidential candidate, supported repeal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), However, media fact-checkers at the New York Times, the Associated Press, and Factcheck.org accused Ryan of "a litany of falsehoods"; Jennifer Rubin of The Washington Post, the Investor's Business Daily, and Fox News disputed some of the claims by the fact-checkers.
Vice-presidential debate
On October 11, Ryan debated his Democratic counterpart, incumbent Vice-President Joe Biden, in the only Vice-Presidential debate of the 2012 election cycle.
The debate was satirized by the subsequent Saturday Night Live, which feature an appearance by Olympic runner Usain Bolt.

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