Filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi's Democratic credentials may be in order -- she is, after all, the daughter of House minority leader Nancy Pelosi -- but when it comes to her job, she'll take Republicans any day.

For her HBO film "Journeys with George," the puppy-like Pelosi and her hand-held digital video camera traveled with the first George W. Bush campaign to make one of the more unusual campaign films of recent years, one that even the media-wary Bush administration came to see as a "valentine," she said.

But having essentially been outed by "Journeys," Pelosi found her next HBO project, "Alexandra Pelosi's Diary of a Political Tourist," tougher going, with candidates who were relentless in their insistence on staying on message.

"It was a lot harder this time because all the candidates were on to me," she said. Bush makes a few appearances in the film, but the focus for the most part is on the various Democrats who wanted his job, including, of course, John Kerry.

"John is no George," she said, noting that "I was looking for a television character" more than she was a candidate for president.

In her off-camera life, Pelosi said she voted for Dick Gephardt on Super Tuesday ("I thought he deserved some sort of credit" for his years of service) and that her favorites among the candidates were "the big losers."

Which doesn't mean she's carrying a torch for Howard Dean.

Though Pelosi was traveling with Gephardt at the time of Dean's infamous scream, she said she thinks the moment -- which she enjoyed playing over and over -- did reveal something important about the man.

There was something wrong with Howard Dean," she said. "He didn't have the right psychological profile to be president."

As for Kerry, she sounds lukewarm.

"I don't think [the film, which premieres Oct. 11] will help him, but I don't think it will hurt him," either, she said.

"For TV, the Republicans were much more fun," she said. For one thing, "they stay in better hotels."