DATELINE: Tallahassee, Florida
In our unstinting quest to unearth at least one Republican during this trip, we made south from beautiful, ghostly Savannah, Georgia, hoping to see John McCain speak on Monday afternoon in Jacksonville, Florida (Florida’s hugely important primary is on 29 January). The dour, flyover-scarred city is the largest in the United States, and [...]

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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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Well, it’s almost Christmas Day, so I think it’s best if we don’t bombard you with information from all sides. Not least because the biggest election issue at the moment seems to be whether there is a subliminal crucifix in Mike Huckabee’s Christmas video message.
No, this is the time of year for cranking the central [...]

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