Minnesota Open Thread (Updated with News from Iowa and an Obama Lie)

The Governor returns to the place where it all started tomorrow. C4P's very own K. Carpenter is attending the book signing, along with other C4P regulars. Drop us a comment/tip. We'll be looking out for some tweets. Here's something about her Minnesota visit from Powerline.

-Though unrelated to the Governor's visit to Walter Reed this morning, I think it's important to remind people that President Obama's approval rating is now under 40% among military households.

-Remember when Talking Points Memo made a big deal about how crowd size estimates that some conservative bloggers made of tea party events were significantly different from the estimates made by purportedly neutral news organizations? Well, the shoe is now on the other foot as TPM's numbers are significantly different from the numbers reported for Governor Palin's Fairfax book signing by the Washington Post and the Associated Press.

-My friend Kristofer Lorelli pens an editorial to Jeffrey Goldberg, asking for his response to Governor Palin on the issue of Israeli settlements. The Wall Street Journal's data shows that Governor Palin's statement regarding Israel immigration trends was correct.

-Lynn Sweet has more from the Gridiron and writes that "Palin was warm, personable and approachable, gracious to those who wanted to take her picture, and good humored about accommodating the total strangers who asked to pose with her for a souvenir snap." (includes a pic of her and Barney Frank)

What else is going on tonight? Since we are talking about Minnesota tonight, I'll predict the Cardinals pull off the upset.

Update: Here is the invitation by the Minnesota Freedom Club to an event that will reportedly attend in a private reception after her book signing. This event has not been confirmed.

Update #2: Here are some stories to chew on about her visit to Iowa from ABC and Politico (h/t Uffda). Jonathan Martin made a very interesting observation in the Politico article:

Palin, as this event and her previous well-attended book tour stops make clear, continues to enjoy a following that transcends politics and could potentially bring thousands of new participants into the Republican primary process.

PPP(D) found her favorable rating among conservative Democrats to be at 52% in its last poll.

Update #3: Given that we're so quick to call any political mistatement a lie, I'll proudly label the following comment from President Obama a lie.

I mentioned that I was in Asia on this trip thinking about the economy, when I sat down for a round of interviews. Not one of them asked me about Asia. Not one of them asked me about the economy. I was asked several times about had I read Sarah Palin's book. (Laughter.) True. But it's an indication of how our political debate doesn't match up with what we need to do and where we need to go.

The statement is completely false as Major Garrett from Fox News did ask Obama about the things he claims reporters did not ask him about while he was overseas.

I can also understand why President Obama would be upset at questions about Going Rogue. It only outsold his book by a 7-to-1 margin according to Nielsen book scan in its first week.