Politics & Government

President Obama at the State Fair Tonight?

Today's state fair theme must be "Politics Day."


Paul Ryan at his stop to the Iowa State Fair probably will be the biggest story of the day.

Unless, of course, someone decides to heckle the President of the United States.

The Des Moines Register is reporting that Barack Obama, currently in Western Iowa, will be making a visit to the Iowa State Fair this evening. A visit that was not announced previously by the campaign.

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Obama lamented to reporters that he won't be able to eat fried Twinkies (due to his wife) or try the bumper cars (due to the Secret Service):

“The last time I went to the State Fair, the Secret Service let me do the bumper cars. But they said this year … I wasn’t president yet, so I could do that. But not this time,” Obama said.

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