91FM Coverage: Election 2004

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From 91FM News:

• 74 year-old Arlen Specter's 24th year in the Senate was almost his last. He faced a serious primary challenge this spring. Ever since, Specter has been attacked from the other side of the political spectrum. WHYY's Brad linder reports. (11/1/04) [Listen]

• The two major parties will spend millions getting their partisans to the polls on Tuesday. Many of those dollars will go to pay Election Day workers in Philadelphia and elsewhere for their time. It's a practice called "street money," and it could be a crucial part of tomorrow's get-out-the-vote efforts. WHYY's Joel Rose reports. (11/1/04) [Listen]

• With just 5 days left until the election, the latest WHYY's West Chester University Presidential Poll shows John Kerry with a 5 point lead over President George W. Bush. WHYY's Rachel Buchman reports. (10/29/04) [Listen]

• As election day draws near, the Attorney General's race in Pennsylvania is one of the closest local races. The latest WHYY / West Chester University poll shows the Republican and Democratic candidates in a dead heat. Though each candidate's campaign has a different focus, the main question of the race lies in the nature of the role of Attorney General in the state. WHYY's Megan Curran reports. (10/29/04) [Listen]

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From Radio Times:

• The election of 2004 is among the country's most contentious. We'll get a history lesson about some other pivotal elections in our nation's political past -- from the 1800's through the Vietnam era. Our guests are Penn professor RICK BEEMAN and RICHARD STENGEL, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center who was a writer and editor at Time Magazine. [Listen]

• Election preview of races in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. We'll talk with JOHN BAER, political columnist in Harrisburg for The Philadelphia Daily News, and TOM MORAN, deputy editorial page editor of The Star-Ledger of Newark [Listen]

• Pennsylvania U.S. Senator Arlen Specter. He is currently running for re-election againt democratic challenger Joe Hoeffel. Elected to the U.S. Senate in 1980, Specter is now in his fourth 6-year term. Specter currently sits on both the House Appropriations and Judiciary committees. [Listen]

• How will your vote be counted? What is being done to insure the integrity of voting systems on elections day. our guests DOUG CHAPIN of Electionline.org and MICHAEL ALVAREZ of the CalTech-MIT Voting Technology Project tell us what to watch for on November 2. (10/25/04) [Listen]

• Pennsylvania 13th Congressional Debate. Melissa Brown vs Allyson Schwartz. The two women are vying for the seat vacated by Democratic Congressman Joe Hoeffel. The suburban Philadelphia district includes half of Montgomery County, and all of Northeast Philadelphia. Melissa Brown is the Republican candidate and Allyson Schwartz is the Democratic candidate. (10/22/04) [Listen]

• Pennsylvania U.S. Senate candidate Joe Hoeffel. He is the Democratic challenger to incumbent Republican Senator Arlen Specter. Hoeffel is currently serving in the U.S. House representing PA's 13th Congressional District. (10/22/04) [Listen]

• Green Party Presidential candidate DAVID COBB. He served as the General Counsel for the national Green Party until declaring his candidacy and was the Green Party of Texas candidate for Attorney General in 2002. He serves on the Steering Committee of Democracy Unlimited of Humboldt County, California where he now lives. (10/20/04) [Listen]