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President Obama kicked off his two-day college tour with a grassroots event in the college town of Ames, Iowa—home of Iowa State University.

Welcome to the West Wing Week, your guide to everything that's happening at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. This week, the White House hosted PTA day and the annual Iftar dinner, the President addressed the drought and spoke with the Curiosity team, and the Administration began accepting applications for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. That's August 10th to August 16th or, "Dream Day."

Why do women have to fight the same old battles? Women still don't get equal pay for equal work - Republicans blocked that, and even pushed a law that could have denied insurance coverage for birth control. We're still fighting to protect a woman's right to choose nearly 40 years after Roe v. Wade, and we could be just one Supreme Court justice away from losing it.

Four years ago Barack Obama promised to stand with teachers.

President Obama: "I won't just talk about how great teachers are I will reward them for their greatness. We're going to pay our teachers more money. We're going to give them more support."

Republican women share their history with the Republican Party and how the party's views are no longer aligned with their own. They don't support Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan and share how Romney and Ryan are wrong for women.

As they share: "If you truly believe in a small government. That government shouldn't be deciding what I can and cannot do with my own body."

"So basically here's what this election comes down to. They're betting that between now and November we're going to come down with amnesia. They figure you're going to forget what there agenda did to this country. They think you'll just believe that they've changed. These are the folks whose policies help devastate our middle class they drove our economy into a ditch.

And we got in there and put on our boots. And we pushed and we shoved and we were sweating. These guys were standing, watching us, sipping on a Slurpee. And they were pointing at us saying 'how come you're not pushing harder? how com you're not pushing faster?' And then when we finally got the car up--and it's got a few dings and a few dents. It's got some mud on it. We're going to have to do some work on it. They point out to everybody else and say: 'Look what these guys did to your car!'

After we got it out of the ditch, and then they got the nerve to ask for the keys back. I don't want to give them the keys back. They don't know how to drive."

President Bill Clinton: "This election to me is about which candidate is more likely to return us to full employment."

"This is a clear choice. The Republican plan is to cut more taxes on upper income people and go back to deregulation. That's what got us in trouble in the first place."

"President Obama has a plan to rebuild America from the ground up, investing in innovation, education, and job training. It only works if there is a strong middle class."

"That's what happened when I was President. We need to keep going with his plan."

Voiceover: "Esta elección presidencial es crucial para nuestro futuro. Cada votante Latino debe saber la verdad sobre los candidatos. Y esta es la verdad sobre Mitt Romney. Ha prometido eliminar la nueva ley de salud y el acceso a un seguro medico para millones de Latinos."

Romney: "If I'm President, I will repeal Obamacare and I'll kill it dead on its first day."

Voiceover: "Esta elección presidencial es crucial para nuestra comunidad. Cada votante Latino debe saber la verdad sobre los candidatos. Y esta es la verdad sobre Mitt Romney. Ha prometido eliminar la nueva ley de salud. Romney se opone a ayudar a las familias que están a punto de perder sus casas por la crisis hipotecaria. Y Romney esta en contra del DREAM Act. La verdad es la verdad. Mitt Romney no le conviene a los Latinos de Estados Unidos."

President Obama took a two day tour of Colorado with stops in Denver, Pueblo, and Colorado Springs. In these cities, the President discussed the choice in this election between two fundamentally different visions on how to create an economy built to last.