US recession and election tour
Updated on 30 October 2008
Jon Snow starts an improbable tour of key swing states in the presidential campaign to find out how people are voting and why.
Here in the repossession capital of America, Las Vegas, there is the bus tour that carries estate agents, bounty hunters and the rest on a bargain trip to buy some of the 20,000 houses seized by the banks.
Half-completed hotel casinos stalled by the financial meltdown, tens of thousands of homes repossessed from mortgage defaulters and somewhere over the hills is the grand project that Roosevelt used to kick start his response to the Great Depression.
Jon Snow has been across two key swing states, both in the eye of the economic turmoil, Nevada and Missouri. In Nevada, Republicans are now leaning strongly to Obama. Missouri is also Republican, but McCain leads by a pip.
