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"Buses. Weather. Breaking news. Buses again. It can be grueling to be political road warrior\u2014or so it looks to us. Each week this fall, we\u2019ll ask traveling campaign reporters to share with us the secret weapons that help them do their job.\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nMcKay Coppins, reporter, Buzzfeed:\n\n&amp;quot;Generally speaking, everyone on the campaign trail relies on some kind of stimulant to remain functional as they trudge through the early call times, long bus trips, and mind-numbingly redundant stump speeches. I\u2019m not a coffee-drinker, and can usually get by on a steady diet of caffeinated soda: three to five cans of Diet Coke a day, on average. But when news breaks\u2014a crisis in Libya, a birther joke from the stump\u2014I always turn to the 5-Hour Energy bottle I have buried in my bag.\n\n&amp;quot;Yes, it tastes disgusting, and yes, it looks vaguely like a sketchy drug advertised in midnight informercials promising to enhance your libido, or whatever. But I\u2019ve found that nothing else gives me the immediate jolt I need to file 800 words and a couple dozen tweets in the space of an hour. My detox is scheduled to begin November 7th.&amp;quot;\n\nRead more on Death Race 2012:\n\nTrail Gear: Peter Nicholas\u2019s Noise-Blocking Earmuffs\n\nTrail Gear: Jon Swaine\u2019s Gluten-Free Food\n\nTrail Gear: Evan McMorris-Santoro\u2019s Cheap Suit\n\n[Trail Gear: Lynn Sweet\u2019s Dry Bag\n\n](http://www.gq.com/news-politics/blogs/death-race/2012/09/trail-gear-lynn-sweets-dry-bag.html)\n\nFollow Marin Cogan on Twitter for more updates from the political scene in Washington and on the campaign trail."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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