the government has passed to get it out of its deep hole. president obama is on the west coast again today. he ll be in los angeles to raise some big money for his re-election war chest. a dinner tonight costs nearly $18,000 per person. the president was in seattle yesterday and he goes to denver tomorrow before president obama left for the west coast, he spoke at the congressional black caucuses awards dinner and he s really start to sound like a candidate now. i m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. i don t have time to feel sorry for myself. i don t have time to complain. i m going to press on. i expect all of you to march with me and march on! the president also will be in the bay area today hosting a town hall event on the professional social network site linkedin. how about some d.c. deja vu? the federal government could shut down thanks to another budget face-off. i m sure you ve heard about it. lawmakers are butti
a distant second is rick perry, who spent a lot of time down there in florida, and pundits thought he would be the one to win that straw poll result. the other one that came out this weekend, michigan, and mitt romney is at the top. no surprise here. listen, romney was born in michigan. his father a former governor there. very popular. romney won the primary there back in 2008. he was expected to win. but perry did go up to michigan and campaign and he was a distant second. for perry, i think a lot of people are saying that those uneven debate performances, especially last week and the attacks on rick perry over his stance on illegal immigration, may be taking a toll. one other thing from the debates or from the straw polls, michele bachmann nowhere to be seen near the top. remember she won the straw poll in iowa in august. but she finished very low down in both of these straw polls. one thing about those, they are important. they are a gauge or a test or a barometer of a cam