Thu 23 May 2013 | 
The Road to the White House
Day 42 – Washington DC – Prediction time
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Enlarge textWell, we're almost finished, thank goodness. What a dull campaign this has been...
topGreat news! I'm going to get a one on one meeting with George Bush. Turns out he's got his hands pretty free at the moment. Except for the bombing Syria - but that's just a bit of crazy business. You know -- might as well use your executive powers to do something fun in the final days in office. Well that's what Dick's told him, anyway.
Well, Obama has stretched to a 12 point average lead in the compilation of
nationwide polls. Everyone says that's outside the "Bradley effect" buffer that
Obama requires (to account for the fact that black people are inexplicably more
unpopular on election day than people who answer opinion polls admit).
Bumped into Joe the Plumber (aka Joe the Non-Plumber) this morning. Our bathroom in the hotel was leaking and so I called up the most expensive plumber I could find in the whole of America (SBS will pick up the tab), and it turns out it was Joe the Plumber (aka Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher), who reckons he makes $280,000 a year being an unlicensed non-plumber.
Day 12 - Nich's Report
Phoenix, Arizona is probably the hottest place in the history of the universe. My shoe got stuck to melting tar on the road, and that was at 5:30 this morning. I think I saw fire melt today.
I should give you some back story on what this whole blog is about. Earlier this year I lined up an exclusive one-on-one meeting with President George Bush, and on that basis SBS has agreed to fund a documentary about my journey across America to the White house, covering the elections along the way.
Day 8 - Palm Springs
So, I'm half way between Los Angeles and Phoenix as me and my crew travel across America making this documentary for SBS about the US elections. And we've got a flat tyre (or, as they spell it here, tire).
Day 5 - Nich's Report
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Charles Firth Charles Firth's months in America taught him many things – that a country that touts democracy doesn’t practice it, that the spectacle is more important than the message, that 54 oz Slurpees don’t mix well with expensive and vital equipment. It was a long, arduous, uphill battle, but he had a story to tell and through it all persevered with a singular goal in mind – meeting George Negus on the publicity tour.
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