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The Highs and Lows of Covering Elections on the Campaign Bus

When Timothy Crouse wrote "The Boys on the Bus" in 1972, he couldn't imagine how much media coverage of presidential elections would change with the rise of the Internet. Media correspondent Terence Smith reports on journalists' not-so-glamorous life on the campaign trail and how digital technology has changed the way media covered campaign politics.