Are the Democrats This Year's October Surprise?
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2006
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Even conservative pundits are saying the Republicans have lost the House and may lose the Senate. So why are President Bush and Carl Rove optimistic about next months elections? Is it self-confidence or self-delusion? What about money, organization and the partisan gerrymandering of district boundaries? Plus, an update on yesterday's massive earthquake near Hawaii, and on this UN World Food Day, a conversation about where people are hungriest--and why.
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| 0:00.0 | From PRI, Public Radio International and KCRW Santa Monica, this is To the Point. |
| 0:07.5 | Are the Democrats this year's October surprise? |
| 0:14.3 | Hello again, I'm Mormon Alney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International. |
| 0:18.2 | A daily look at the issues, Americans care about most. |
| 0:21.4 | More and more Republicans are bracing themselves for losing control of the Congress next month and possibly even |
| 0:26.3 | the Senate. Democrats are so optimistic that Nancy Pelosi is being asked about which office |
| 0:31.7 | she'll use as House Speaker. But President Bush and Carl Rove are reportedly full of confidence, |
| 0:37.4 | both publicly and in private. |
| 0:39.9 | On to the point, will the midterm elections be a referendum on the president himself, Iraq, and scandals in Congress? |
| 0:46.8 | Can Republicans change the subject to local issues? |
| 0:50.1 | What about money, organization, and the partisan gerrymandering of district boundaries? |
| 0:55.7 | First, here's the news. |
| 0:59.2 | Support for To the Point comes from subscribers of KCRW Santa Monica and from the Public Radio |
| 1:05.0 | International Program Fund, whose contributors include the Ford Foundation and the John |
| 1:09.7 | D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. |
| 1:11.9 | Hello again, Warren-Nalny, back with To the Point. Even conservative pundits are saying the Republicans |
| 1:16.1 | have lost the House and may lose the Senate. So why are President Bush and Carl Rove optimistic |
| 1:21.7 | about next month's elections? On To the Point, is it self-confidence or self-delusion? What about money, organization, and the partisan gerrymandering of district boundaries? First, this news update, Hawaii's strongest earthquake in 20 years has officials fanning out across the islands, inspecting bridges and looking for other damage. Power still has not been fully restored since a 6.5 quake hit yesterday morning, followed |
| 1:46.1 | by one of 5.8 and at least 30 aftershocks. Malia Zimmerman is editor of the Hawaii |
| 1:51.7 | reporter, an online newspaper based in Honolulu. Malia, thank you very much for joining us. |
| 1:57.4 | Thank you. You're some distance from the epicenter, which was near the Big Island of Hawaii. |
| 2:03.6 | Did you feel it? |
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