stamped with made in the usa. [ cheers and applause ] >> i am also honored to introduce on for the blue colla worker lho knows how important manufacturing is in the quad cities and throughout our country. please join me in welcoming the vice president of the united states, joe bidenp. [ cheers and applause ] >> hello, everybody, how are you? back in davenport, the quad cities. mr. mayor, thank you for flying back from brazil and getting off a plane and coming straight here. if i were you, i would be in bed trying to catch up on my sleep. i want to tell you something, i know i'm back in iowa, when the guy introducing you from the factory floor speaks better than you do. i know i'm back in iowa. incredible state. i understand mayor eldridge is here, and martin o'boyle, terry, thank you for the opportunity of allowing me on the factory floor here, and i understand the chancellor of the community college is here. thank you very much. guys are doing in a minute. first of all. as it relates to the story that was just told by chuck reminds me, my dad used to have an expression. he'd say, i mean this

things like the wording of the ballot question, then they'll have to collect about 56,000 have to colla%t about 56,000 valid voter signatures. they are encouraged by the knowledge that 31 states have p gone that route. passage in the legislature and defeat at the polls. supporters of the measures say while maryland may not have been the first state to approve the measure they believe it will be the first to with stand the challenge at the ballot box. >> i am an out and proud straight mom of a lesbian daughter. >> reporter: what does it mean for your daughter? >> it means for me as her mom that she will not be discriminated against. that my daughter when she finds the person that she can love and who can love her, she has that right. >> reporter: so supporters of same sex marriage say this is the dawn of a new day here in maryland. the question remains, what will the evening of the new day bring? outside the statehouse reporting live, derrick ward, news 4. >> thanks, derrick. >>> and prince george's county now, a man accused of killing a pregnant teenager for $600 in cash and some mariju

that's the contrast and lawrence's point about what biden is starting to do, that'll start to take collaother thing the vice president did yesterday in mentioning all three of the republican candidates, santorum, gingrich, and romney lumping them in together is we're going to find out over the course of the next several months how much damage the republican party did to itself with talk about contraception and all these social issues among independents. and by lumping the three of them in together all the time, the fear factor has got to be right there in the front of a lot of minds of the independent voters. >> he did do individual paragraph hits on each one of them too. >> well, the greatest -- >> gave each one of them their due. >> david, go ahead. >> no, i just -- i think the point about independents is really important. and it goes to romney's overall strategy. we sit and wait for him to try to put these guys away. and yet he still stays focused on president obama. you know, he's obviously his super pac is carpet bombing santorum and gingrich. i don't mean to say he's ignoring them,