DATELINE: Portland, Oregon
In downstate Oregon the other day, I had been talking to Mr and Mrs Comfort-Inn about their disappointment over Mitt Romney’s exit from the race. They didn’t think much of the Republican frontrunner John McCain. Would they be voting for Mike Huckabee then, the more conservative alternative to McCain?
“Well, he did do well […]

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DATELINE: Oakland, California
When we planned this trip, it always had definite bookends: the Iowa Caucus, at the start, and then Super Tuesday as the grand finale, the closest America has ever got to having a nationwide primary. With so many states voting on one day, it seemed like when the dust settled on 6 February […]

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DATELINE: Los Angeles, California
Yesterday we took a few blissful, super-indulgent hours out of the trail to visit the world-famous San Diego Zoo. Watching the CNN debates had been like a towering plate of stinking, over-boiled cabbage, and the zoo was our ice cream sundae reward at the end of it. We were still looking for […]

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DATELINE: San Diego, California
We’ve been on the road a lot in the last few days. We have traversed phenomenally barren terrain - but it has been both beautiful, and diverse. From pebble-strewn, cactus-speckled beige expanses, to ranging sand dunes, to mountainous rock-piles, the south west has been a geological wonderland, all laid out beneath cloudless […]

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DATELINE: Greenville, South Carolina

INT. Early evening on the day of the South Carolina Republican Primary. A virtually empty bar on Greenville’s wealthy Main Street.
Tom, an indie-looking guy with a Rider of Rohan hood and an English accent, gestures to a TV in the corner of the bar.
Tom: “Excuse me. Are you going to be screening […]

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