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Vote Sharing
The informal, unofficial, thoroughly unscientific Brian Lehrer Show Exit Poll returns for Election Day. Kean, Jr. or Menendez? Farrell or Shays? And what to do about Alan Hevesi? Plus, Michael Waldman of the Brennan Center for Justice on the Election Protection coalition.
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Vote Protection
Michael Waldman, executive director of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU
School of Law and former speechwriter for President Bill Clinton
- on the Election Protection Coalition's work
more on the Election Protection coalition
Around the Region
with
Jason Horowitz, reporter for the New York Observer
- talks about the Peter King race on Long Island
with
Brendan Scott, reporter for the Hudson Valley’s Times Herald-Record
- talks about the Sue Kelly race and the repeat robo-calls marring the end of the campaign
Breaking Down the Vote
Av Harris, political reporter with WNPR in Connecticut
- talks about the Congressional races in Connecticut
and
Brooke Gladstone, co-host & managing editor, On The Media
- on her mishap with a voting machine
What's going on in Hudson Co., NJ
Arun Venugopal, WNYC reporter,
- from the Hoboken Station, in Menendez's district, talking to voters
Make It Count
Miles Rapoport, president of the think tank Demos and former Connecticut Secretary of State
- on voter access issues around the country
and
Brenda Wright, managing attorney for Demos' partner organization National
Voting Rights Institute (NVRI)
- on her work at voter problem call center in DC
Around the Nation
with
Michael Davis , political reporter for the Chattanooga Times Free Press in Tennessee
- discusses the heated Senate race between Harold Ford and Bob Corker.
with
Beverly Amsler , Morning Edition Anchor for WVTF in Roanoke, Virginia
- talks about the Allen/Webb race and the early signs of high turnout.
with
Tom Weber, reporter and morning news anchor at KWMU in St. Louis
- filling us in on yet another close Senate race, Talent/McCaskill in Missouri.
Political Games
Andrew Lee, senior at Claremont McKenna College in Southern California and founder of FantasyCongress.net
- how you can control your own congress (at least a fantasy version)
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The Rocky Road Ahead
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Ray Young, the chief financial officer of General Motors, talks about GM’s bankruptcy.
Then, Damon Lester, president of the National Association of Minority Automobile Dealers, and Greg Williams, former owner of the recently closed Huntington Chevrolet in Huntington Station, NY., discusses the effect GM’s bankruptcy has had on dealerships and their employees.- Comments [40]
Tweet If You Use Twitter
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Farhad Manjoo, Slate's technology columnist and the author of True Enough: Learning To Live in a Post-Fact Society talks about what Twitter means and how different groups use it.
What's your take on Twitter? How do you use it? Comment below!- Comments [15]
Don't Say That, Literally
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John Flansburgh of the band They Might Be Giants discusses the running list the band keeps of "things we can no longer say." (a few examples: "my bad" "don't go there" "one hundred and ten percent" and "voted off the island")
What would be on your list of banned words or phrases? Comment below!- Comments [172]
From Denmark with Love
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Jesper Grunwald, senior managing editor with the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, talks about the Danish economy, biking to work, and why the Danes are allegedly the happiest people in the world.
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Squatting, Then and Now
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As former squats in the East Village make the transition to coops, making homes from abandoned housing is again an issue. Andrew Reicher executive director of Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, Frank Morales an Episcopal priest involved in East Village/Lower East Side squatting and homelessness activism since the late '70s, and Rob Robinson, a leader of the Housing Campaign of Picture the Homeless, discuss the return of squatting.
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