More from our Ground Hound Chuck Olsen as he travels down South on his Southern Fried Super Tuesday tour.... These Christian fundamentalists in Lynchburg, Tennessee explain why they're supporting Mike Huckabee for president, their misguided ideas about Barack Obama and the Qu'ran, the Iraq War, President Bush, the wrath of God that protects Israel, and, of course, End Times.
Ground Hounds across America! Chuck Olsen from The UpTake launched his Southern Fried Tour this weekend and stopped in St. Louis, Missouri to gauge the Super Tuesday political winds there and ask the question: "What does America need?"
Ah, Super [Duper Tsnumani] Tuesday. Just around the corner. And we have Ground Hounds across the country ready to get the story of what's really happening to you. Like a lot of states, Colorado had its turn to host lots of politicians this week. Here's a roundup of events with Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, and internet favorite Ron Paul. Either Obama or Clinton will get a bid, but it's Dr. Paul that walks away with a standing ovation.
With the doors about to closed at in Nevada, coming up is a look at Hillary and Barack- last night our intrepid ground hounds Royce and Corrine attended rallys for both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in Nevada Here is Corrine's video from the Hillary rally
Surrogate ground hounds Debate Porridge caught up with a class field trip to New Hampshire this morning. With this year being the first time it seems the youth vote might have a significant impact its interesting to see the kids' responses to this year's (and presumbly their first) election.
All today and tomorrow our venerable ground hounds from our partner the Uptake will be sending in videos from New Hampshire. Stand by for our live feed. In the meantime Noah and Corrine, still groggy from a long drive, grab some first impressions of New Hampshire and the charged atmosphere of Manchester, in particular.
With the dust settling on Obama's victory in Iowa, the Uptake's Chuck Olsen talked to a life long Iowa Republican who had decided to caucus for Barack Obama.
Hot on the heels of Chuck Tomlinson's great Ground Hounds reports, we also have a report from Chuck Olsen, who covers the John "Cougar" Edwards rally:
Meanwhile The Uptake's Noah Kunin files an interview with Chase Martyn from the Iowa Independent. Enjoy!
As we're all getting ready for the primaries, we've got people on the ground all over the country ready to blog for us, too. This week and next you'll hear from Jonathan Backer in Iowa, who is on the ground with the Dodd campaign.
They posted this clip of Jonathan on their website and much like they are, we're excited to have Jonathan on board to cover the January 3 caucuses.
Immediately following the Iowa primaries, we'll be going straight to New Hampshire where Wake Up America's...
Your daily politics video blog: This week The UpTake's own ground hound Chuck Olsen road-tripped to Des Moines, Iowa for the last big Democratic candidate event before the caucuses, the Jefferson-Jackson Dinner. While drunk hockey fans trampled Hillary signs outside, the leading candidates tried to win over the 9,000 cheering Democrats inside, taking jabs at Republicans and each other in an attempt to win hearts and minds at the upcoming Jan. 3 caucus.
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