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Archive for October 18 - 22, 2004
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Monday, Oct. 18, 2004
Hour 1 (11 a.m.)
Audio The Choice 2004 - part 1
Two candidates for president, offering two directions for America. They are men of the same generation, Yale graduates from privileged New England families. But they took starkly different paths as they formed their values and politics. In the first hour of this Frontline report from American RadioWorks, a look at George W. Bush and John Kerry as young men.
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Hour 2 (12 p.m.)
Audio The Choice 2004 - part 2
In the 1980s, John Kerry established himself in the U.S. Senate. The former prosecutor led investigations into Iran-Contra and other scandals. George W. Bush launched business ventures, with mixed success, and worked on the campaigns of others before winning the governorship of Texas in 1994. In hour two of this Frontline special from American RadioWorks, we look at how John Kerry and George W. Bush came of age as politicians and how their very different histories and personalities might shape their approach to the presidency.
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Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2004
Hour 1 (11 a.m.)
Audio 2004 election roundup
Minnesotans will have a lot of choices to make on Nov. 2: congressmen and women, state legislators and, of course, the president of the United States.
Guests:
Maureen Shaver, a former capitol lobbyist and Republican activist, and Democrat Amy Klobuchar, the Hennepin County Attorney.

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Hour 2 (12 p.m.)
Audio Condoleezza Rice
National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice praises President George W. Bush for changing the direction of the United States' policy toward the Middle East, breaking "with 60 years of excusing and accommodating the lack of freedom" in Arab countries. "When freedom is on the march, America is more secure," Rice said on Friday at the City Club Forum in Cleveland. Rice compared the War on Terrorism to the Cold War, both in its length and its scope, and like the Soviet Union, she said terrorist organizations and the "ideology of hatred that spawned them" will eventually crumble.
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Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2004
Hour 1 (11 a.m.)
Audio Are we losing the peace in Iraq?
The newspaper chain Knight Ridder's Washington bureau has just completed a three-part series of news analyses looking into why winning the peace in Iraq has been so much harder than winning the war was. Looking at official documents and three months of interviews with people intimately involved with planning the war and the subsequent rebuilding effort, their team of reporters found a process plagued by inadequate planning and major missteps.
Guests:
Two of the reporters responsible for the series: Warren Strobel, senior foreign affairs correspondent, and Joe Galloway, senior military correspondent.

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Hour 2 (12 p.m.)
Audio Bush in Rochester
Minnesota has had more than its fair share of presidential visits this year. Both President George W. Bush and Sen. John Kerry are in town this week. Bush makes a campaign stop in Rochester Wednesday afternoon, and Minnesota Public Radio has live coverage and analysis.
Guests:
Chris Gilbert, a professor of political science at Gustavus Adolphus College, and Ken Mayer, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

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Thursday, Oct. 21, 2004
Hour 1 (11 a.m.)
Audio The struggle for the Minnesota House
The Republican Party currently enjoys an 81-53 seat majority in the Minnesota House of Representatives, but all 134 seats are up for election in November. We invite leaders from both parties to make their best cases for why they should control the House for the next two years.
Guests:
Minnesota Speaker of the House Steve Sviggum, R-Kenyon, and Minority Leader Matt Entenza, DFL-St. Paul, have been traveling the state in a series of debates leading up to election day.

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Hour 2 (12 p.m.)
Audio If journalism was broken, has it been fixed?
In his 1996 book, "Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy," the journalist and commentator James Fallows wrote that the media had become "irresponsible with its power. The damage has spread to the public life Americans all share. The damage can be corrected, but not until journalism comes to terms with what it has lost." Eight years later, in the midst of another presidential election, the question is: has that happened? Fallows gives his answer live at the Westminster Town Hall Forum in Minneapolis.
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Friday, Oct. 22, 2004
Hour 1 (11 a.m.)
Audio The art and science of polling
Heading into the final week of the presidential campaign the poll numbers are coming out fast and furious. The problem? They don't all say the same things. The Associated Press just released a poll showing John Kerry leading nationwide, but the Gallup organization's most recent numbers show Bush leading. Other national polls show a dead heat or Bush slightly ahead. What do all these sometimes contradictory numbers tell us?
Guests:
Frank Newport, editor-in-chief of the Gallup Poll.

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Hour 2 (12 p.m.)
Audio Counting every vote
With its hanging chads, butterfly ballots and inaccurate felon lists, the 2000 presidential election exposed major problems with America's voting procedures. Four years later, investments in new electronic voting machines, voter tracking systems and other advances spelled out in the Help America Vote Act were supposed to make things run more smoothly. But the legal battles have already begun. National Public Radio's Justice Talking hosts a debate that asks: Are we prepared to count what may be another extremely close election?
Guests:
Democrat Joe Sandler and Republican Ben Ginsberg--two lawyers who rushed to Florida to represent their parties during the recount battle of 2000. Ginsberg resigned from the Bush campaign this year after Democrats complained that he also served as counsel to the outside group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.

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