DATELINE: Baltimore, MD
We’re trying not to devote too much time to sight-seeing on this trip; there’s simply too much else to do. But 24 hours in Baltimore provided an unmissable opportunity to visit Washington DC, only an hour away by train.
The highlight was not the remote, heavily guarded White House though, but the Lincoln Memorial. [...]

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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: New York, New York
“There are three types of people in America right now: people who get it, people who don’t, and people who are insane”.
Right. And how will these groups be voting?
“Obama, Clinton, and Republican respectively.”
Alfie grins. Like many of the young professionals gathered in Union Square in Manhattan, he likes Obama’s youthful dynamism. [...]

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DATELINE: New York, New York

Everything in New York feels automatically… right. It’s partly to do with the weight of US pop culture that most Brits carry like a backpack sutured to their shoulders, but it’s also something innate for Londoners, something umbilical tying the two great cities together.
In New York politics is trapped in the [...]

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DATELINE: New York, New York
Hunter S Thompson was right about the campaign trail: it is a drug. It heightens your senses even while it drains your energy, and it leaves you exhausted and bereft in its absence, eyes darting and hands shaking. Iowa and New Hampshire were so intense that it’s taken us a few [...]

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