I am working on a WordPres twenty twelve child theme with a two tone navigation menu that changes tone with a hover. This works fine with the submenus, but for some reason, unlike the submenus, a hover of the nav menu just to the beginning and the end of the actual text, whereas submenus include padding. When I try to add padding to the nav menu root, I end up with no change to the nav menu root and the submenus no longer flow inline with the nav menu root.
Any idea what I am doing wrong?