Report One: Obama roadtrip

MONTICELLO, IA.-- As the sun was rising over the snow covered Iowa farmland, dotted with rolled bales of hay or straw (Jeff Zeleny of the New York Times kindly briefed me on the difference), the bus carrying reporters covering presidential candidate Barack Obama was headed towards Friday’s first campaign stop.

This is the first of a series of reports letting you ride along with me on the Obama bus tour that started on Thursday after the Democratic debate near Des Moines and wraps up there on Tuesday. You’ll meet among other people a Secret Service representative on the bus with us I am code-naming Falcon Bulldog, since I have promised to protect his identity.

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Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.,greets potential supporters during a campaign stop in Dubuque, Iowa, Thursday.
(AP)

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