Life on the Campaign Trail: Regional Priorities, and Repetitive Jokes  The New York Times

Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. The best parts about traveling with presidential candidates on the campaign trail are the interactions with voters, who are as diverse as our country and come to the events with hope and optimism that an individual candidate can speak to their most pressing problems. The worst parts, without question, are the jokes. You hear a candidate make the same jokes over and over. The part of Senator Elizabeth Warren’s stump speech where she jokes about being the “accident…