Follow BeltwayBlips on TwitterReporter's notebook: Fear and boredom on Obama's trail
Published 11/7/2008 at L.A. Times - Politics
Waiting (and waiting) for the president-elect as he travels around Chicago, a pool reporter finds little to report -- but learns how one should not drive near a Secret Service SUV.
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I saw the president-elect on Thursday -- six different times, for a total of 71 seconds.
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