There goes Iowa again, always having to be first. The home of the first-in-the-nation caucuses is also the first swing state to begin early in-person voting in the presidential election.

President Obama and former Gov. Mitt Romney headed for the politically important states of Iowa and New Hampshire Friday. With the political conventions over and the jobs numbers out, Iowa Public Radio's Sarah McCammon checks in with voters in the swing state of Iowa to see how they're feeling about the candidates.

Tuesday marks six weeks until Election Day, but registered voters in two dozen states are already able to cast a ballot for president.

President Obama has added the term "economic patriotism" to his campaign vocabulary. It's a criticism of GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, whose personal overseas investments are an issue in the campaign. But while some of what Obama means is clear, the term still raises questions.

The newly unearthed video of Mitt Romney in 1985 explaining how Bain Capital hoped to "harvest" the firms it invested in seemed at odds with the Republican presidential nominee's suggestion on the campaign trail that creating jobs was a major aim in those days.