Days three and four of the trip find Gary Younge and Dan Chung in Iowa. The first film is from Maysville, a small rural community. Bruce Braley, Democratic candidate for one of the state's five seats in the House of Represenatives, meets voters at a gun club breakfast. Republican-held for the last decade, the race is now ranked as one that could go either way.
Next is Halloween at a nightclub in the town of Cedar Rapids - swapping party politics for party goers. The revellers describe themselves as Republican, Democratic, independent or non-voters but, says Younge, they are like "young people all over the west - a mixture of apathy, idealism and plenty of alcohol".
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