Former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack (D) and former representative Tom Perriello (D-Va.) are touring rural Virginia this week on behalf of the Obama campaign, highlighting investments the president has made in those areas.


Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announces a new lending program during a news conference at the Virginia Farm Bureau in Richmond in May.
(Steve Helber – Associated Press)
Vilsack is Obama’s agriculture secretary, but the Obama campaign stressed that he was not campaigning in that capacity and would not take questions related to that position while campaigning.

Kicking off Tuesday, the tour

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