This Week's Agenda: GOP Debate, Economy, Netroots

Monday, June 13, 2011

GOP presidential hopefuls debate in South Carolina in January 2008. (AFP/Getty Images)

The GOP will see it's first major debate with all its prominent players in New Hampshire today. Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Michele Bachmann, and Rick Santorum are all expected to participate. Todd Zwillich, The Takeaway's Washington correspondent, is most interested in how Bachmann and Santorum try to "out-conservative" each other to gain the following of those who don't support Mitt Romney. A topic that will surely be a key part of the debate will be the poor state of the economy. A set of key economic indicators is set to be released this week. Charlie Herman, economics editor for The Takeaway and WNYC, is expecting retail sales to fall, and a stock market finishing down for six weeks in a row is certainly not helping either.

“ As we’re going into this election cycle here starting up, there are so many things that need to be addressed, like unemployment, like housing, like the debt ceiling. And really for a lot of these issues the can is being kicked down the road.
— Charlie Herman

Netroots Nation, the online group that was instrumental in raising money and drumming up enthusiasm for President Obama in 2008, will be holding their meetings later this week.

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