--- title: Joe Klein Road Trip: 2014 Midterm Travel Schedule description: TIME's political columnist plans Southern swing ahead of midterm elections canonical: https://time.com/3304251/joe-klein-road-trip/ author: Joe Klein article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-09-09T15:17:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T10:03:49.893Z article:section: Politics og:title: Join Joe Klein's Political Road Trip og:description: Columnist travels South og:url: https://time.com/3304251/joe-klein-road-trip/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf21bf8bfb66594cd/6986a308e53abaf9fe4d4621/joe-klein-road-trip-gif-3-2.gif?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Joe Klein Road Trip Gif 3:2 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Join Joe Klein's Political Road Trip twitter:description: Columnist travels South twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf21bf8bfb66594cd/6986a308e53abaf9fe4d4621/joe-klein-road-trip-gif-3-2.gif?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Join Joe Klein's 2014 Road Trip by [Joe Klein](/author/joe-klein/) ## Joe Klein Sep 9, 2014 3:17 PM CUT  Illustration by Alex Eben Meyer for TIME by [Joe Klein](/author/joe-klein/) ## Joe Klein Sep 9, 2014 3:17 PM CUT I’m heading south this year, starting on September 19th–in search of fun, insight and American stuff. As always, if you’d like to meet with me and talk politics, let me know… Also, I’d love to hear about any debates, barbecues, picnics, festivals or rituals coming up in your states. We start 9/19 in North Carolina…9/22 in Georgia, 9/24 in Alabama, 9/26-28 in Tennessee, 9/29-30 Mississippi, 10/1-3 Louisiana, 10/4-5 in Arkansas, 10/6-7 in Kentucky. The schedule is subject to change, depending on political events…and you. If you’d like to get together, please contact me at Joe\_Klein@timemagazine.com…or trip wrangler Tessa.Berenson@Timeinc.com. I’m looking forward to several weeks of politics from the ground up, good music and great food. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3304251/joe-klein-road-trip/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3304251/joe-klein-road-trip/"},"headline":"Join Joe Klein's 2014 Road Trip","datePublished":"2014-09-09T15:17:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T10:03:49.893Z","description":"TIME's political columnist plans Southern swing ahead of midterm elections","url":"https://time.com/3304251/joe-klein-road-trip/","keywords":["politics","Government","America","Joe Klein"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf21bf8bfb66594cd/6986a308e53abaf9fe4d4621/joe-klein-road-trip-gif-3-2.gif?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Joe Klein","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/joe-klein/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf21bf8bfb66594cd/6986a308e53abaf9fe4d4621/joe-klein-road-trip-gif-3-2.gif?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Joe Klein Road Trip Gif 3:2","caption":"Joe Klein Road Trip Gif 3:2","creditText":"Illustration by Alex Eben Meyer for TIME","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3304251/joe-klein-road-trip/","name":"Join Joe Klein's 2014 Road Trip"}}]}] ```