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To the Point

Will Tomorrow's Primaries Finally Seal the Deal?

To the Point

KCRW

News

4.4583 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2008

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Wins in both Indiana and North Carolina tomorrow could wrap things up for Barack Obama, but Hillary Clinton's doing well enough to make both states unpredictable. We look at the impact of Reverend Wright, the "gas tax holiday" and other issues. Also, tens of thousands killed when Myanmar is hit by a deadly cyclone, and a tragic finish to the Kentucky Derby.  Has good breeding gone bad?

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:07.6

Will tomorrow's primaries finally seal the deal?

0:14.3

Hello again, I'm Mormon Olney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International,

0:18.4

a daily look at the issues. Americans care about most.

0:24.6

Barack Obama once called Indiana the tiebreaker with Hillary Clinton. His big lead in North Carolina made it a firewall like Ohio was for her.

0:29.6

If Obama won both, it could be the end of the Clinton campaign,

0:33.6

but now it appears both states are closer than anybody expected.

0:36.6

On to the point, Indiana and North states are closer than anybody expected.

0:41.2

On to the point, Indiana and North Carolina are complicated in different ways.

0:44.7

Do they want to hear about change or bread and butter economics?

0:49.3

Does a gas tax holiday sound like a good deal or a cynical promise?

0:57.0

On reporter's notebook later on, a tragic finish to the Kentucky Derby has good breeding gone bad.

0:58.3

First, here's the news.

1:07.4

Support for To the Point comes from subscribers of KCRW Santa Monica and from the Public Radio International Program Fund,

1:11.9

whose contributors include the Ford Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Hello again. Warren Alney, back with To the Point. Wins in both Indiana and North Carolina

1:17.0

tomorrow could wrap things up for Barack Obama, but Hillary Clinton's doing well enough to make

1:21.6

both states unpredictable. On To the Point, the impact of Reverend Wright, the gas tax holiday,

1:27.1

and other issues. On reporter's notebook, another high- Reverend Wright, the gas tax holiday, and other issues.

1:28.4

On reporter's notebook, another high-profile racehorse had to be put down Saturday after the Kentucky Derby.

1:34.2

We'll hear about demands for change in selective breeding.

1:38.0

First is news update. Myanmar, the country once known as Burma, has been struck by a cyclone with winds exceeding 120 miles an hour.

1:45.8

The death toll may rise above 10,000.

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