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

U.S. Senate elections that could make a difference.

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

A daily look at the issues Americans care about most.

Republicans and Democrats are calling each other brain-dead, un-American tools of special interests

and enemies of the middle class, par for the course during midterm elections. But this year,

the stakes are nothing less than control of the Senate during President Obama's final two years.

Kentucky, New Hampshire, and Louisiana, states

that don't always matter could help determine the course and content of the presidential

campaigns in 2016. There could be immediate consequences for issues, including Obamacare,

the minimum wage, and your tax bill. We'll get a preview. Today's talking point, the genocide in

Rwanda, 20 years later.

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Program Fund. Hello again, Mormon Allie, back with To the Point. Republicans have their best

chance in eight years of taking over the Senate, but they

just might lose their own Senate leader. We'll hear how the country's political future might depend on

elections in some obscure states that are currently too close to call. Today's talking point,

at least 800,000 people died when extremists of the Hutu tribe slaughtered their Tutsi rivals

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