Lynn Sweet

The travelling press often gets advance information for "planning purposes."

"There is nothing that happens at a fully blown national campaign that isn't done for their purpose."

A lot of what you see and hear on a daily basis from the campaign comes from pool reports. (Apparently, however, not Lynn. Yesterday, she was writing a story -- she's the primary Obama reporter -- as the rest of us were eating dinner.)

Candidate is not accessible every minute when you are traveling with them. Special service agents were all around Obama early on.