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McCain's Mission

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Tuesday, November 08, 2005

John McCain, Senator (R-AZ) and author, Character Is Destiny: Inspiring Stories Every Young Person Should Know and Every Adult Should Remember (Random House, 2005)
-takes inspiration from Sojourner Truth, Leonardo da Vinci, and Wilma Rudolph

» Character Is Destiny (Random House)
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McCain's Mission

John McCain, Senator (R-AZ) and author, Character Is Destiny: Inspiring Stories Every Young Person Should Know and Every Adult Should Remember (Random House, 2005)
-takes inspiration from Sojourner Truth, Leonardo da Vinci, and Wilma Rudolph

» Character Is Destiny (Random House)
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Flying the Co-op

Marc Luxemburg, president of the Council of New York Cooperatives and Condominiums
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John Liu, Democratic member of the New York City Council representing Northeast Queens
- on a proposal to force co-op boards to give a reason for denying an application

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Same-Day Service

Richard Dadey, executive director of the Citizen's Union
- says people should be allowed to register and vote on Election Day, plus our informal, unofficial, thoroughly unscientific exit poll

» Citizens Union

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RIP Lever Machine

John Ravitz, executive director of the Board of Elections
- on the death of the voting machine, plus our informal, unofficial, thoroughly unscientific exit poll

» New York City Board of Elections

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Results of our Informal, Unscientific (and Thoroughly Inaccurate) Exit Poll

Ferrer over Bloomberg by a landslide
Corzine and Forrester in a dead heat
Yes to Proposal 2 (to fund public transportation)
Lisa Hahn for City Council in Glen Rock

Click here to listen to our informal, unofficial, thoroughly unscientific exit poll.

Selected feedback (misspellings included):

Subject: Voting machines
That sound effect you're using of the voting machine lever being pulled
sounds like a cash register (recording Bloomberg votes...).

-SJV

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Required Reading: November 8, 2005

Today is Election Day, with important races in New York City and New Jersey. If you listen to this show regularly and are registered, you have no excuse for not voting. So get out to your polling place and do it!

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