Episode #392: O Father, Where Art Thou?
Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Ken Rudin
4.7 • 635 Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2022
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Greg Bluestein of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports on the myriad of controversies and alleged scandals surrounding Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker. The latest — reports that the anti-abortion Republican paid for an ex-girlfriend’s abortion — would suggest that his challenge to Democratic incumbent Rafael Warnock is in jeopardy. But Republicans are sticking with the candidate.
The two candidates in the closely watched Texas gubernatorial contest, GOP incumbent Greg Abbott and Dem challenger Beto O’Rourke, held their only debate this week. Much was riding on the outcome for O’Rourke, who trails his Republican rival in the single digits. But James Barragan of the Texas Tribune says that neither candidate scored a knockout blow.
And we say goodbye to an old friend, veteran Associated Press congressional reporter Alan Fram, who shares some of his observations of nearly four decades covering the Capitol before retiring this year.
Music in this week’s program:
You Cheated, You Lied by the Shields
Those Were the Days by Mary Hopkin
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| 0:00.0 | Ron DeSantis calls for boots on the ground. |
| 0:03.2 | Herschel Walker hears from an old friend, |
| 0:05.8 | and it's the status quo debate in Texas, |
| 0:08.9 | all on the political junkie. |
| 0:11.1 | You like Ike, I like like, everybody likes like for president. |
| 0:15.2 | Add light to you and lead to me. |
| 0:17.5 | I don't care how you quoted. |
| 0:19.2 | Come on and vote for Kennedy, vote for Kennedy, and we'll come out on top. |
| 0:26.4 | Vote for Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Loss, because they're the ones to lead the USA. |
| 0:36.6 | Thanks for joining us, and welcome to episode 392 of the political junkie. |
| 0:42.6 | I'm Ken Rudin. |
| 0:44.3 | I became a certified, or certifiable, political junkie during the midterm elections of 1966. |
| 0:51.6 | In the 56 years since, I can't tell you how many times I've said or written that this |
| 0:58.2 | election, whatever year it was, is going to be the most significant of our lifetime. I never |
| 1:04.4 | thought it was hyperbole. They were indeed crucial elections. But my goodness, look at what's at stake in 2022. |
| 1:13.1 | Two completely different visions and priorities. |
| 1:17.0 | Republicans are talking about crime and inflation and the border. |
| 1:21.3 | Democrats are talking about abortion and guns and free elections. |
| 1:25.5 | The GOP says it's a referendum on Biden. No, say the Dems, it's a |
| 1:30.0 | referendum on Trump. The two parties are miles apart on nearly everything, and we haven't even |
| 1:36.3 | talked about election deniers and the sanctity of the vote. With a month to go before the election, |
| 1:43.5 | no one can say with any authority who's going to come out on top. |
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