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Let's see if you can guess which subjects came up during our live "town hall" programme from Rolla, Missouri, on Friday.

The state of the US economy? Of course. Energy policy? Definitely. The teaching of creationism in schools? Oh yes. (I admit I was surprised by that one.)

The war in Iraq? Er, no. Not one. About 100 people turned up to be in our audience, and none of them wanted to ask about Iraq.

So what, if anything, does that mean? That Missouri voters don't care about the war? I doubt it. That they think it's probably going OK so it's not something they regard as an election issue? I wonder.

I was impressed by the Missourians who came along on Friday. They asked serious questions, and listened carefully to the answers from two local Congressmen, a political science professor and a local radio journalist. (To be honest, they probably asked better questions than a professional interviewer would have done.)

By the way, if you want to listen to the programme, there's an article about my travels and a link to the programme audio file .

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