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: Boston, Massachusetts
That’s how it seemed when we saw the southern preacher-man speak in Winnacunnet High School, in Hampton, NH on Monday. Officially, of course, he’s not a socialist. No-one is. The western hemisphere’s few remaining socialists were tragically wiped out at some point in the mid 1990s, when Bill Clinton and Tony Blair jumped […]

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DATELINE: Portsmouth, New Hampshire
By the time we make it out onto Congress Street, Portsmouth’s delightful restaurant and cafe-heavy main commercial street, there are already ten banner waving supporters for Dennis Kucinich and John Edwards lined up on either side of the main intersection. Michael Niederman, a struggling playwright from Manhattan, is propping up a seven […]

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