These may be the dog days of summer, but they are filled with political news.
The big story of the week continues to be focused on Massachusetts, where we have a date for a special election to succeed Sen. Edward Kennedy, but we still don't know who will be running — and whether any of them will be a Kennedy.
But we do have a new senator in Florida, a likely new congressman in California, and a defiant governor in South Carolina. And what's a weirder spectacle: Eliot Spitzer returning to electoral politics in New York, or James Traficant leaving prison sans hairpiece?
Plus: special guest Bob Dole will talk about the prospects for health-care overhaul in the Senate.
All this, and more, in today's Political Junkie segment on NPR's Talk of the Nation.
Join host Neal Conan and me every Wednesday at 2 p.m. ET for the Junkie segment on TOTN, where you can often, but not always, find interesting conversation, useless trivia questions and sparkling jokes. And you can win a Political Junkie T-shirt!
Last week's Junkie segment was preempted by a special one-hour program on the passing of Ted Kennedy. You can hear the special here.
If your local NPR station doesn't carry TOTN, you can hear the program on the Web or on HD Radio. And if you are a subscriber to XM/Sirius radio, you can find the show there as well (siriusly).
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