International Dateline: Inside the Republican Campaign
For Dateline's first episode in 2008, Video Journalist Mark Davis reports from inside Republican John McCain’s campaign for the White House.
After following McCain’s victory in the Florida Primaries, Davis films as tensions deepen between fellow Republicans while McCain crafts his message – playing to an audience fearful of another terrorist attack and increasingly worried about America’s illegal immigrants.
“I will follow Osama Bin Laden to the gates of Hell!” McCain declared to a crowd in Florida.
As America moves towards ‘Super Duper Tuesday’, Davis captures the candid realities of the nation’s convoluted and sometimes confusing political process: Republican versus Republican, Democrat versus Democrat - as the US scrutinises front-runners for the highest office in the land.
For the first time since 1952, it’s an open race: neither an incumbent president nor vice president is up for nomination. So what does that say about the mood of American voters, or the state of US politics?
Also in this episode, host George Negus interviews political analyst Arnie Arnesen and Nick Lazaredes takes a look at Putin's Russia in the build-up to next month's elections.
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About International Dateline
SBS Dateline, which began in 1984, is Australia's longest-running international current affairs program. It has a well-earned reputation for authoritative and incisive reporting. Dateline has taken the traditional way of producing TV current affairs and turned it on its head. Reporters who used to travel with a cameraperson and sound recordist now travel alone and have the responsibility of both filming and reporting their stories. The reporters became video-journalists, gaining access to people and places that the conventional camera crews cannot.
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