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while hiking. texas governor rick perry failed to live up to his front-runners status this weekend. mitt romney won michigan straw poll by a 3-1 margin over perry. now, romneys father served as michigan governor in the 60s making the son somewhat of a home state favorite. in florida, herman cain took top billing. he drew twice as many votes as perry, with romney in third place. cain says he won because voters are beginning to notice his 999 tax plan. heres how he explains it. >> my p...

of our viewers. they were able to do this after all of this discussion and all of this fight over specifically inclusion of fema funding. additional fema funding of in the short-term resolution. what is happening right now, john, is there is going to be a series of two votes, actually. and its a clean or simple and this basically is the measure that everyone basically agreed to. funding fema as well as not shutting down the government and it strips away all of the obstacles that had re...

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, ...

This afternoon, it will reair on fox news, well play the en tour debate for you, starting at 2:00 p.m. eastern on fox news channel. >> eric: the largest watched debate of also far. president obama is rattling black voters to try and follow him to battle for jobs and opportunity and the president speaking at the congressional black caucuss annual awards dinner. the president telling the crowd to, quote, put on their marching shoes and press forward with him. >> president barack obama: i know at t...

Spend the day in california tomorrow where there will be a jobs round table and stop in denver on the way home tuesday before he took off, he tried rally a crucial part of his base. urging members of the congressional black caucus to stop complaining and start helping. >> the president: takeoff your bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes. shake it off. stop complaining. stop grumbling. stop crying. we are gonna press on. we got work to do! cbc! >> reporter: this obamas answer to those in h...

Theyve said theyre not comfortable with the presumed nominee, not comfortable with perry or romney. the grassroots people have said we like a herman cain. we like a jon huntsman. to a certain degree a ron paul. this doesnt surprise me, not one bit. >> bottom line to all three of you. give me a yes no. do you think the straw poll will continue winning ways of predicting the gop presidential nominee. they did it three times, reagan, george h.w. bush and bob dole. >> no. >> no. robert? >> no. >> mo...

Shake it off. stop complaining. stop grumbling. stop crying. were going to press on. weve got work to do. >> im joined on the phone by new york congressman gregory meeks. representative meeks thanks for joining us. >> caller: good being with you. >> i want to talk about the presidents speech and the mood going into that versus the mood afterwards. tell me approximate that. >> caller: i think the president was very good last night. hearing what the president had to say. they wanted o know that th...

Throughout our history, change has often come slowly. progress often takes time. we take a step forward, sometimes we take two steps back. sometimes we get two steps forward and one step back. but its never a straight line. its never easy. with patient and firm determination, im going to press on for jobs. im going to press on for equality. im going to press on for the sake of our children. im going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. i dont have time to ...

americans, 53%, feel president obama is greatly or moderately to blame for the economy. more people still blame former president george bush but president obama wont be running against george bush next year. with me, obamas 2008 presidential campaign advisor and now senior white house advisor. thank you, david, for joining us. before we get to the politics of it, which is fascinating to all of us, lets get to the presidents jobs bill. wow would you be open to breaking up this bill for ...

going to make this a make or break. we saw it on the faa when they shut down the federal aviation administration, were seeing it now on this debate about fema, we should be able to have a legitimate debate about emergency aid. why link that into a government shutdown or not. >> ill give the senate democratic leader most of the credit. he manufactured a crisis all week. about disaster when theres no crisis. everybody knows were going to pay for every single penny of disaster aid that th...