Politics and the Presidential Debates
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2007
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
This week marked the third presidential debate among Republican candidates, the second for Democrats. Eighteen months before the election, are the debates more about style than substance? Are voters even paying attention? Also, the G8 Summit gets underway in Germany, and any billionaire but Rupert. Wall Street Journal employees want to find another buyer. Sara Terry guest hosts.
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| 0:00.0 | From PRI, Public Radio International and KCRW Santa Monica, this is To the Point. |
| 0:08.2 | Democrats are pointing fingers while Republicans take aim, politics and the presidential debates. |
| 0:17.7 | I'm Sarah Terry sitting in for Warren Allney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International, a daily look at the issues Americans care about most. During this week's presidential debates in New Hampshire, Democrats elbowed each other, Republicans went after the Democrats, and pretty much everybody criticized President Bush. What campaign strategies are emerging 18 months before the election? |
| 0:40.7 | Do debates have any effect on public opinion so early in the season? |
| 0:44.8 | Will immigration and Iraq define the election next year? |
| 0:48.0 | Or will issues like health care take center stage? |
| 0:50.8 | On reporter's notebook, any billionaire but Rupert? |
| 0:53.9 | Wall Street Journal employees want to find |
| 0:55.7 | another buyer. First, the news. Support for To the Point comes from subscribers of KCRW Santa Monica |
| 1:02.1 | and from the Public Radio International Program Fund, whose contributors include the Ford Foundation |
| 1:07.5 | and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. I'm Sarah Terry, |
| 1:11.5 | sitting in for Warren Alley, back with To the Point from PRI. This week marked the third |
| 1:16.7 | presidential debate among Republican candidates and the second for Democrats. Senator Hillary |
| 1:22.0 | Clinton won points earlier in the week for being polished and commanding among the Democrats. |
| 1:26.9 | Last night, Senator John McCain was criticized by Republicans for supporting the immigration bill, |
| 1:32.3 | but he won praise for the way he defended his position. |
| 1:35.4 | At this point, so early in the campaign season, are the debates more about style than substance? |
| 1:41.0 | More important, are voters paying attention? |
| 1:43.9 | On reporter's notebook, got money? Got |
| 1:46.8 | $5 billion? If you do, Wall Street Journal employees would love to talk about selling you their |
| 1:52.1 | newspaper. First, this news update. In northern Germany today, G8 leaders gathered for their |
| 1:58.4 | annual summit while some 10,000 protesters tried to block roads and railroad lines to the Baltic resort where talks get underway tomorrow. |
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