Five days on a Greyhound bus into an anxious America
Catching a Greyhound bus across the “rust belt” swing states gives an extraordinary insight into the psyche of American voters less than a week out from the US presidential election.
After speaking to at least 50 people on a bus journey through several states, here’s what US correspondent Matthew Cranston learnt. Robert Duong
About a quarter of the roughly 15,000 daily domestic flights in the US this year have been delayed by 15 minutes or more, according to the US Department of Transportation. I’m one of the unlucky ones, and so is retired federal government worker Marcus Peacock. He is just as resigned to the country’s ailing air network as he is about presidential politics.
We’ve struck up a conversation after both being transferred onto a different plane bound for Detroit. I’m flying out of Washington DC to the Motor City, where I will hop a Greyhound bus for a journey across the “rust belt” states expected to be pivotal to the result of the presidential election on November 5.
