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Ana Marie Cox invited me onto “The Inside Story” today to chew over the birther conspiracies, their racial underpinnings and their threat to Republicans. The post-show Web-exclusive part of the interview is now online, right here.

Though this election cycle has held the interest of Americans at unprecedented levels, fatigue has also set in. But there is a group of close observers whose interest has remained high, and for whom each day is a revelation. I speak, of course, of the foreign press that is covering the U.S. election.
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Ana Marie Cox is stationed at Sen. John McCain’s election night headquarters in Arizona, where she will be filing dispatches throughout the day and tonight.
Letting us know what it’s like in the press center, here’s her first Election Day video:

TWI correspondent Ana Marie Cox comments on the logistics of following the candidates on the campaign trail. Video content included.

TWI correspondent Ana Marie Cox delivers this video report from a McCain rally in Fairfax County, Va. Here it is, after the jump:

TWI correspondent Ana Marie Cox, on the McCain campaign trail, reports via video from Columbus, Ohio. Here it is, after the jump:

TWI correspondent Ana Marie Cox, on the trail with John McCain, parses another speech by Gov. Sarah Palin. She notes that Palin’s speechwriter, perhaps in an effort to reduce the candidate’s deviations from the script, has adopted her conversational — and emphatic — tone in the prepared statements, packing them chock full of exclamation points.

After my deep reading of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s rhetorical skills Tuesday, I confess I wasn’t quite up to scrutinizing her talk on national security issues for deviations from the point. But, not wanting to totally fail those interested in continued examination of Palin’s style, I took a look just at the remarks as prepared [...]

TWI correspondent Ana Marie Cox, reporting from the McCain campaign trail, provides a transcript of Gov. Sarah Palin’s energy policy speech and highlights the many times Palin strays from the prepared, teleprompted remarks. For more on Palin’s deviation from the McCain campaign’s plans, in speeches and elsewhere, see Ana Marie’s earlier post here.

Here is the latest from Ana Marie Cox, our newest correspondent, reporting from the campaign trail with Sen. John McCain in Bowling Green, Ohio.