DATELINE: Austin, Texas
So tonight is George W. Bush’s final State of the Union speech then, which the former Democratic candidate Dennis Kucinich decided to mark by trying to impeach the President. The wag. Sadly he has just announced he is postponing this bit of political fun for a little while longer.

Either way, Kucinich is not […]

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DATELINE: Philadelphia, PA
Ha, made you look. Because of course, we don’t know. No-one knows.
But unlike our good friends the professionals, we don’t make a big show of anointing winners based on a few polls. Ahem. Cough. Like EVERYONE else did. ‘What’s at the core of The Obama Phenomenon?’ begged CNN on the morning of the […]

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DATELINE: Boston, Massachusetts

Well, Hillary won New Hampshire then. That surprised everyone. We spent last night at a wonderful Dennis Kucinich (kinda-not-really) victory party, having spent an exhausting day with every journalist in the entire frickin’ world in Manchester, NH. Here’s the story of the media circus as I told it for the UK’s New Statesman.

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DATELINE: Portsmouth, New Hampshire
When we return to the main intersection on Congress Street, the McCain and Kucinich sign-holders, five or so each of them, are sharing sidewalk space with the Richardson folks. We stroll out to do some sightseeing, hoping to view some ancient (in American terms) New England homes and a bit of the […]

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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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