DATELINE: Charlotte, North Carolina
Uni does not vote, has never voted, and has no intention to start voting in the future. He doesn’t trust any of the candidates. He likes Obama the best, but does not trust him either.

Uni is smart, charismatic, and knows everything that there has ever been to know about movies. He is [...]

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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: 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
‘Fired up!’
‘Ready to go!’
‘Fired up!’
‘Ready to go!’
200 young people are engaged in call-and-response chanting with each other, crammed in to the corner of the canteen of the Iowa City Senior Citizens Center. In the opposite corner, 30 or so senior citizens wait blankly for the noise to subside, occasionally shaking their heads [...]

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