DATELINE: Portsmouth, New Hampshire
“Growing up in New Hampshire, you learn that every four years you disconnect your phone, or at the very least you screen every call – because otherwise you will never be able to stop talking politics. Politics is what we do out here, but it turns into overload at this time of [...]

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DATELINE: Iowa City, Iowa
As the vital hour approaches, the clamour of candidates hoping that Iowa will kick-start their push for the White House has reached new levels of intensity. In Iowa City, or ‘Berkeley on the prairie’ as a local politics professor describes it to me, the final two days before the caucus have witnessed [...]

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DATELINE: Iowa City, Iowa
“Only a numbskull thinks he knows things about things he knows nothing about” (Amy Archer, The Hudsucker Proxy)
Here’s the latest polling for Iowa.
But polling schmolling. Marlene the clinical scientist from the Hillary Clinton rally last night seemed to be for Clinton – she clapped along in all the right places, wore the [...]

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Part of the reason we are doing this trip NOW, for THIS election, is that it’s the closest and most exciting primary race in decades. Precedents and predictions are crumbling like a giant political stock cube. Received wisdom is being returned to sender, unopened.
The only certainty that existed during this autumn’s phoney war was Hillary [...]

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