Dispatches From the Swing States
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As the campaign enters its final hours, Daily Beast correspondents report from the battlegrounds: Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania and North Carolina.
My Front Row Seat in the Nation's Strangest Swing State
Jim Neal ran for the US Senate in North Carolina's Democratic primary in 2008, the second gay person to ever mount a senatorial campaign. Jim's been a featured guest on NPR, Fox, CBS and CNBC and a lecturer at The New School on politics and media. He lives in Chapel Hill with his two sons.
A one-time Senate candidate on how politics replaced basketball in North Carolina--and Elizabeth Dole's strange demise.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
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Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
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