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To the Point

Is Yesterday's Landslide Winner Out of the Race?

To the Point

KCRW

News

4.4583 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2008

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Hillary Clinton beat Barack Obama by 41 points in West Virginia, but he still looks like he's cruising.  Can Clinton go on with a debt of $20 million? Will Obama be a weak candidate against John McCain? Also, President Bush is back in Israel, and cracks in hydroelectric dams threaten another disaster in China.

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0:00.0

From PRI, Public Radio International and KCRW Santa Monica, this is To the Point.

0:07.6

Is yesterday's landslide winner out of the race?

0:14.3

Hello again, I'm Orman Alney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International.

0:18.3

A daily look at the issues, Americans care about most.

0:21.1

Barack Obama was clobbered by Hillary Clinton in West Virginia, but he's still the presumptive Democratic nominee.

0:27.1

She vows to continue campaigning despite a debt of $20 million, almost $12 million of which is her own money.

0:34.1

On to the point, has Clinton proved that Obama will be a weak candidate against John McCain?

0:39.2

How important are low-income white voters?

0:42.2

Will McCain have to run in part against his own party's unpopular incumbent

0:46.5

as the Republicans lose a congressional seat in Mississippi?

0:51.0

On reporter's notebook later on, cracks in dams caused by the earthquake in China.

0:56.7

Another disaster in the making? First, the news.

0:59.7

Support for To the Point comes from subscribers of KCRW Santa Monica and from the Public Radio

1:05.3

International Program Fund, whose contributors include the Ford Foundation and the John

1:10.0

D. and Catherine T. McArthur Foundation.

1:12.4

Hello again. Warren Olney, back with To the Point. Hillary Clinton beat Barack Obama by 41 points in West Virginia,

1:18.9

but he still looks like he's cruising. And the Democrats took a congressional seat from Republicans in Mississippi,

1:24.3

despite help from U.S. senatorsators and Vice President Cheney.

1:30.6

On to the point, can Clinton go on with a debt of $20 million?

1:33.9

Will Obama be a weak candidate against John McCain?

1:36.5

What about McCain's problems with his own party? On reporter's notebook, cracks in hydroelectric dams threaten another disaster in China.

1:42.5

First is news update.

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