As we get deeper into the election cycle this year, we're going to be involving readers more and more in TPMtv. We're going to be up in New Hampshire in a few months reporting from on location about the primary. We'll be at the conventions. And we'll probably make a few other trips too. But we're a tiny operation. So there's just no way we're going to be able to be in all the places where events are happening.

As I noted a while back, we're particularly interested in verite footage of campaign events on the ground. How do the candidates look, what's their presentation when the national TV cameras aren't rolling. Of course, if you get footage of Tom Tancredo slipping and calling for summary execution of illegal aliens caught on American soil, yeah, we'd like that video. But that's not mainly what we're interested in. We want to bring readers a sense of the retail politics of how the campaign is unfolding around the country. So take your handcams, keep them running and send us in the results.

Today, we have a short video that TPM Reader Greg Hauenstein shot at this weekend's Ames Straw Poll. I didn't have much of a sense of what the event was actually like until I watched ...