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To the Point

The Changing Face of Presidential Politics

To the Point

KCRW

News

4.4583 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2007

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Conservatives are suspicious of John McCain and evangelicals have problems with Mitt Romney's Mormon religion. Rudi Giuliani leads Republican polls. Has the base of the party softened on social issues, or is that a temporary phenomenon? Plus, Democrat John Edwards says he'll continue his presidential campaign despite his wife's continuing battle with cancer and, on Reporter's Notebook, we talk with New Mexico's Democratic Governor Bill Richardson about his race for presidency.

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

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The changing face of presidential politics.

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

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

0:20.7

Former Senator John Edwards will continue his presidential campaign despite the return of his wife's cancer.

0:26.7

We'll hear what their struggle could mean for the Democratic primaries.

0:30.4

Meantime, on the Republican side, conservatives have booed John McCain.

0:34.5

Evangelicals are openly skeptical of Mitt Romney's Mormon religion. Is that why pro-choice,

0:39.9

three times married, Rudy Giuliani, leads in the polls? Will the party base give up its litmus test

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on social issues to get a hawk on national security? Are both moderates and conservatives looking

0:51.2

for new faces? On reporter's notebook notebook later on Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson.

0:57.4

First, here's the news.

0:58.7

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

1:04.4

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

1:09.1

D. and Catherine T. McArthur Foundation.

1:11.5

Hello again, Mormon-only, back with To the Point. Conservatives are suspicious of John McCain.

1:16.1

Evangelicals have problems with Mitt Romney's Mormon religion. Rudy Giuliani leads Republican polls.

1:22.4

On To the Point, has the base of the party softened on social issues, or is his lead a temporary phenomenon?

1:29.1

On reporter's notebook, we'll talk with New Mexico's Democratic Governor Bill Richardson about his race for president.

1:34.9

First, this news update in Chapel Hill, North Carolina today, Elizabeth Edwards denounced the return of cancer.

1:40.6

She says it is incurable but treatable.

1:43.3

Former Senator John Edwards says that means his

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