DATELINE: Fort Stockton, Texas
The latest election news is that John McCain has just beaten Mitt Romney in Florida’s Republican primary, which is the last election until next week’s Elephantine Tuesday, when 22 states vote at once - the biggest day in the history of American primaries. Here’s what McCain’s Floridian coalition of the willing looked […]

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DATELINE: Mobile, Alabama

“When voters want a national Daddy, someone to be tough and strong and defend the country, they vote Republican. When they want a Mommy to give them jobs, healthcare… they vote Democrat.” - The West Wing, Series 7 Episode 2, ‘The Mommy Problem’
John McCain is counting pretty damn hard on the American people […]

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DATELINE: Tallahassee, Florida
In our unstinting quest to unearth at least one Republican during this trip, we made south from beautiful, ghostly Savannah, Georgia, hoping to see John McCain speak on Monday afternoon in Jacksonville, Florida (Florida’s hugely important primary is on 29 January). The dour, flyover-scarred city is the largest in the United States, and […]

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DATELINE: Chicago, Illinois
The centre of Chicago on a cold December evening is almost too beautiful for words. It’s like the head-swirling, romantic-as-fuck finale of The Hudsucker Proxy. Snow falling softly on twinkling fairy lights and night-lit skyscrapers, summoned as humble offerings to international finance like capitalist totem poles. Alongside Chicago’s massive, looming financial district is […]

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