Voting your heart, swinging an election?
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2016
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Libertarian Gary Johnson and the Green Party's Jill Stein are this year's "third-party" challengers to Clinton and Trump — the two most unpopular presidential candidates in recent history. There's almost no chance either one can be more than a "spoiler," but we look at what they offer to millions of unhappy voters.
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| 0:00.0 | Here Be Monsters is a show that invites you to explore fear and the unknown. |
| 0:04.7 | I saw her face change. I saw her see where I pulled my hair out. |
| 0:10.1 | Psychological warfare was always considered kind of an oddity, something done by freaks. |
| 0:15.6 | On the count of three, we're literally going to step out of our body. |
| 0:19.9 | Step out. |
| 0:21.9 | You can find the new season of Here Be Monsters on August 17th at KCRW.com or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:31.3 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI Public Radio International, this is To the Point. |
| 0:39.8 | Third parties, voting your conscience or wasting your vote. |
| 0:46.8 | Hello again, I'm Aeronalny, and this is To the Point. |
| 0:49.6 | For millions of voters, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton present an agonizing choice between the lesser of two evils. |
| 0:55.8 | Libertarian Gary Johnson offers an alternative for fiscal conservatives who won't vote for Trump but can't stand Hillary. |
| 1:02.4 | The Green Party's Jill Stein speaks to disappointed and angry supporters of Bernie Sanders. |
| 1:07.5 | But third party candidates always pose a moral quandary. Can they be anything but spoilers? |
| 1:13.2 | Do they take votes away from the least of those perceived evils and help to elect the worst? |
| 1:18.4 | We'll look at this year's competition for the Republicans and the Democrats. Today's talking point, |
| 1:23.6 | Donald Trump's Second Amendment comments and recent Israeli history. |
| 1:28.2 | First, here's the news. |
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| 1:58.4 | Support for To the Point comes from the members of KCRW and from the Public Radio International Program Fund. |
| 2:05.5 | Hello again, Warren Alney, back with To The Point. |
| 2:07.6 | Libertarian Gary Johnson and the Green Party's Jill Stein are this year's third party challengers to Clinton and Trump, |
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