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SwampCast: Anatomy of an Anecdote

YES, MORE HILLARY.

Wrote a final piece about the "Middle Class Express," just trying to give a sense of what the scenes were like. If I were not rushing under a deadline, I might have remembered to add how beautiful it was out there. Green and gold and perfect autumn sky, etc. But you'll just have imagine that while you read about the reception Hillary got out in the heartland. Hint: It was good.

This SwampCast just relates an anecdote from the trip, a Rashomon*-y experience that illustrated how skewed the perception of the press corps is.

*Yes, I misspelled it.

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