Medicare now focal point of Obama-Romney debate

The Romney and Obama campaigns — both convinced that their man is more trustworthy with the future of Medicare — ramped up the debate this weekend, with operatives trading prickly barbs, the president dismissing Republican plans as “snake oil and Paul Ryan bringing his 78-year-old mother into the fracas.
“This is the first election cycle I can remember for a long time that Democrats are on the defensive with Medicare, Romney senior adviser Eric Fehrnstrom said Sunday on CNNs “State of the Union.
Hoping to turn what has...