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# Election Road Trip 2012: Joe Klein Kicks Off Battleground Tour

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## Video: Election Road Trip 2012: Joe Klein Kicks Off Battleground Tour

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_Published 2012-05-08. TIME political columnist Joe Klein is set to tour election battleground states, from North Carolina up to the Midwest. Get in touch to invite him to your town_


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## Transcript

Hi, I'm Joe Klein, Time Magazine's political columnist. It's 2012, a presidential election year, maybe an important presidential election year, and so it's time for another road trip. [ MUSIC ] Hey, it's Joe Klein and I'm back in Iowa. Here we are in southern Arkansas. I'm going to go up to Little Rock tomorrow. Starting in early June I'm gonna be traveling through battle ground states. Through North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, up to Pennsylvania, Ohio, across through Indiana. Maybe Kentucky, Michigan, Wisconsin and maybe Minnesota. Actually I'm kinda vague about this because my final itinerary is going to be determined by you, Time Magazine readers.

Just as in past years, this is a crowd- sourced road trip, which means, we want to hear from you. [ MUSIC ]. If you wanna sit down and talk with me about politics, shoot me an email at Joe_Klein @ timemagazine. com. [ MUSIC ]. Or you can contact Katy Steinmetz, who is the keeper of the itinerary, at Katy_Steinmetz @ timemagazine. com. This is gonna be an exciting trip for me. It's always fun to get out there because you're a lot more interesting to talk to than the politicians I spend time with in Washington. I'll have a lot of interesting traveling companions coming with me. It's gonna be a great time.

But only if you make it so. [ MUSIC ]

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