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America has always been the land of promise for a better life for yourself and your family,

for a better world for your neighbors and countrymen, for better future for all of humanity.

But does America still have hope?

My fellow Americans, I end tonight where it all began for me, I still believe in a place called hope. God bless you and God bless America.

Amid bitter partisan divides throughout our country,

USA Today recently visited six small towns and cities

to gauge the mood of the voters. What they all have in common? They're all named hope.

I recently visited the largest and most diverse of all of them.

The city former president Bill Clinton put on the map, Hope Arkansas.

Hello and welcome to the excerpt.

I'm Dana Taylor.

Today is Sunday, September 15, 2024.

My goal was to gauge the mood of the voters.

What were the issues they were worried about heading into the election?

Were political divides a concern?

How are they feeling about an election that many say will be the most consequential in decades and finally were they hopeful

about the future.

Hope is a small city of about 8,000. Trains rumble through this southwestern town 58 times a day.

Only two stops. Most roll slowly through carrying timber, chicken, coal, packages, and whatever else needs to make its way to the rest of the country.

Historic downtown hope by all accounts is charming.

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