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| 0:00.0 | The Indicator is a podcast where daily economic news is about what matters to you. |
| 0:04.5 | Workers have been feeling the sting of inflation. |
| 0:06.6 | So as a new administration promises action on the cost of living, taxes, and home prices, |
| 0:11.3 | the S&P 500 biggest post-election day spike ever, |
| 0:14.5 | follow all the big changes and what they mean for you. |
| 0:17.1 | Make America affordable again. |
| 0:20.4 | Listen to The Indicator, the Daily Economics podcast from NPR. |
| 0:24.5 | It was a cloudy day in Iowa, not as freezing as usual for January. |
| 0:29.1 | And a candidate, almost no one had ever heard of, was about to shake up the 1976 Democratic primary race. |
| 0:35.9 | Right about now, Iowa's Republicans and Democrats are filing into halls |
| 0:40.2 | and community houses, sometimes even homes across the state. Iowa's caucus had never been a big |
| 0:46.3 | deal before this. It was a small state with wonky rules. It didn't matter that it was the primary |
| 0:52.2 | season's first contest. |
| 0:59.0 | Except this year, for the first time, reporters had shown up en masse to cover the caucus. |
| 1:01.7 | The eyes of the nation are focused on Iowa. |
| 1:06.3 | The Democratic field was so large and amorphous, everyone seemed to be running. |
| 1:09.8 | Maybe the results here would shed some light on the true contenders. |
| 1:11.2 | We're going to get the counts. |
| 1:16.9 | Birch By figured it would be him, a statesman from nearby Indiana who climbed from Farm Boy to three-term senator, author of two amendments to the Constitution, as well as major |
| 1:22.2 | women's rights legislation, Title IX, Birch By had a classic case for the nomination. |
| 1:28.5 | He was the type of candidate both parties had long put up for president. |
| 1:32.2 | One who isn't divisive, who can get along with all factions. |
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