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Political panel: 2012 candidates to spend Labor Day campaigning
Candidates and potential candidates for the 2012 GOP nomination have been busy campaigning this weekend and they will have no rest this Labor Day as they try to rally supporters in a host of events across the country.
Following a appearance in Iowa on Saturday where she spoke to a group of around 2,000 people who had gathered hoping that she'd make some indication as to whether or not she'd run for the nomination, Sarah Palin will be in New Hampshire today for a Tea Party event.
Meanwhile, Rick Perry, Mitt Romney and Michelle Bachmann will be at a forum in South Carolina event hosted by Senator Jim DeMint, a leader in the new conservative grassroots movement that includes so-called tea partiers.
Roll Call politics writer Shira Toeplitz and Politico senior political reporter Ben Smith explain what Palin's weekend event could signal about her intentions to run and whether Sen. DeMint's forum will push Perry to the front of the candidate pack.
Obama moves jobs speech after Boehner pushes back – is it politics or a gaffe?
The debate over the date of President Obama's jobs speech has given his opponents plenty to run with.
The President hoped to talk to a joint session of Congress next Wednesday, the same night as a Republican debate. But House Speaker John Boehner pushed back, and the President backed down, rescheduling the speech on Thursday. Now the President's speech will be up against the NFL's opening night.
Today on American Morning, Politico senior political writer Maggie Haberman and CNN contributor John Avlon look at the implications of the uproar over the scheduling. They also discuss Avlon's latest article for the Daily Beast, looking at why so many people continue to urge New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to run for President, despite his repeated statements that he isn't interested.
You can read Avlon's article on Christie here.
Rick Perry, "the eggheads" and election 2012
In a chapter-sized pull-out from his upcoming book, The Victory Lab, Sasha Issenberg goes behind the scenes of Rick Perry's 2006 campaign for Texas governor.
Issenberg talks with American Morning about the new GOP frontrunner's strategy in Texas and how it will translate to the national arena in the 2012 presidential race.
Governor Rick Perry fires back at critics – how will his comments effect his campaign?
Presidential candidate Rick Perry hit the campaign trail again yesterday, standing firm on his Bernanke "treasonous" comments when he was asked about the Federal Reserve at a political breakfast.
"An agency of government like the Federal Reserve, they should open their books up, they should be transparent so that the people of the United States know what they're doing," Perry said. "Until they do that, I think there will continue to be questions about their activity and what their true goal is for the United States."
Perry also took a swing at climate science and criticized regulations to curb greenhouse gases, an argument he's long made from Austin.
Today on American Morning, Kate Zernike, New York Times national correspondent, and Will Cain, CNN contributor, join Carol Costello to discuss Perry's campaign and to weigh in on how people are reacting to his comments.
Political headlines: Will Perry's 'treason' comment hurt him on the campaign trail?
Texas governor and 2012 presidential candidate Rick Perry has been heavily criticized this week after he remarked on Monday that he would view it as "treasonous" if Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke printed more money between now and the 2012 election.
Despite the negative feedback, Perry did not go back on his statement, telling Peter Hamby after a luncheon with small business owners in Dubuque, Iowa, "I am just passionate about the issue and we stand by what we said".
This morning on AM, Jerry Seib, Wall Street Journal Washington bureau chief and Mark Preston, CNN senior political editor, weigh in with Carol Costello about today's political headlines and discuss whether or not Perry's comment will hurt him on the campaign trail.
Sec. Vilsack on President Obama's plan to spur economic growth
President Obama embarked on a 3-day "listening tour" yesterday aimed at talking about job growth and the effects of national economic policy with the American public. He is hitting the Midwestern states of Minnesota, Iowa, and Illinois and putting a focus on the rural community.
Along with members of the White House Rural Council, Obama will spend much of his day today at a rural economic forum in Peosta, Iowa. The forum will bring together farmers, small business owners, rural organizations and others to "discuss ideas and initiatives to promote economic growth, accelerate hiring, and spur innovation in rural communities and small towns across the nation," the White House said.
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, former Governor of Iowa, joins Christine Romans on American Morning today to weigh in on what innovative solutions the White House has for restoring jobs in the Midwest and to respond to critics who are claiming that the tour is nothing more than a tax-funded campaign event.
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