The Brian Lehrer Show

To Be Young, Conservative, and Hip

Monday, November 10, 2003

A new survey suggests that college kids are more likely to vote Republican than Democrat. Today’s Alex P. Keatons aren’t just more numerous, they are also more cynical—-and more savvy--than their 1980’s counterparts.

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Campaign Tumult

Karen Tumulty Time Magazine National Political Correspondent on the firing of Kerry's campaign manager and Dean's by-passing public financing for the primaries

Hip To Be Square

Joseph Liska college senior, and student president of the Brown University College Hill Republicans on the growing conservatism on college campuses and Jeffrey Cook A second year law school student at New York University and Executive Director of the Log Cabin Republicans of New York

Up Against the Wal-Mart

Jared Bernstein Senior Economist at the Economic Policy Institute and co-author: The Benefits of Full Employment: When Markets Work for People (Economic Policy Institute, 2003) on the phenomenon that is Wal-Mart and its effect on American society and Ira Kalish economist for Deloitte Research explains Wal-Mart's success in the marketplace