KOKOMO, IND. – The kickoff of the 2012 race for the White House might just happen Tuesday in this small midwestern town known as the “city of firsts,” where Old Ben, a two-ton bull, still gets bragging rights as the world’s biggest stuffed steer.
President Obama and Vice President Biden will visit a Chrysler transmission plant here Tuesday afternoon, a trip that the administration is billing as part of its “White House to Main Street” effort to highlight economic progress and tout the back-from-the-brink success of the automobile industry.
But with Republicans flexing their newfound power in Washington and gaming out their 2012 prospects, and the White House ready to put top political players back in campaign mode, it is hard not to see this visit as an opening argument for 2012.
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