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KPFK Wed. 1/30: Could McCain Beat Hillary?

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Our super-Tuesday preview: polls show Hillary well ahead of Barack Obama, and McCain rising to the top among Republicans. Polls also show that voters nationally prefer McCain over Hillary right now, 46-44. We’re supposed to focus on the issues, not on the horse race; but [...]

If Obama is JFK, Who is Hillary?

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Jan. 30: Ted Kennedy’s statement Monday that Obama was like JFK set off a storm of historical analogies. Hillary’s side fired back that she is like Bobby Kennedy–at least that’s what three of Bobby’s kids said the next day: “Like our father, Hillary has devoted her life to embracing and including those on the bottom [...]

KPFK Wed. 1/23: Barbara Ehrenreich: The Stimulus

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“Desperately Seeking Stimulus”: BARBARA EHRENREICH says that the issue replacing Iraq in the election is “how to get the economy engorged and throbbing again.”

Plus: CHALMERS JOHNSON on the bankrupt empire: The military adventurers of the Bush administration have much in common with the corporate leaders of [...]

Wed. 1/16: Hillary and Obama in Las Vegas

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HAROLD MEYERSON analyzes the Jan. 19 Nevada caucuses – he calls Las Vegas “workers’ paradise” where the 60,000-member hotel employees union, Local 226 of the Culinary Workers, has endorsed Obama. Harold is executive editor of The American Prospect and an op-ed page columnist for The [...]

Wed. 1/9: Hillary & Obama in New Hampshire

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our day-after analysis of the Democratic and Republican primaries in New Hampshire: John Nichols, Washington correspondent for The Nation, and John Powers, columnist for LA Magazine, will answer the big questions about Hillary v. Obama and McCain v. Romney. Also: how perverse is [...]

Wed. 1/2: Hillary’s Man Problem

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I’m out of town visiting family today — at KPFK guest host Lila Garrett hosts a special Iowa caucuses preview.
more stuff to read: “Hillary’s Man Problem” – my new piece at the HuffingtonPost