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

Would a new Democratic majority go left or right?

Hello again, I'm Arminowley, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International, a daily look at the issues, Americans care about most, a county sheriff in Indiana, a retired Army colonel in Kentucky, a former pro-quarterback

and evangelical Christian in North Carolina. They're all pro-business and opposed to abortion,

gay marriage, and gun control. They're all running as Democrats in next week's elections for

Congress. On to the point, potential speaker Nancy Pelosi promises President Bush would be safe from impeachment,

but could conservative newcomers put liberal veterans in check if the Democrats took back the House?

Where would that leave the liberal base of the party?

It's been out of power on Capitol Hill for the past 12 years. First, here's the news.

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

and Catherine T. McArthur Foundation. Hello, again, Mormon-Aulney, back with To the Point.

If the Democrats regain their majority, Republicans warn about high taxes, weak defense,

and social liberalism. But the Democrats have recruited candidates who promised to take their

party back to the right.

On to the point, would conservative newcomers put liberal veterans in check?

Would grassroots liberals then have to be satisfied with the lesser of two evils?

First, this news update.

100 American service people have now died in Iraq this October.

A Marine died over this past weekend.

October already was the fourth worst month for U.S. casualties since the invasion in 2003. National Security Advisor Stephen

Hadley's in Baghdad right now for talks with President al-Maliki. Meantime, the Special Inspector

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