by Thomas Pierce

A new episode of everyone's favorite podcast, It's All Politics, is available for download. On the show this week NPR's Ron Elving and Ken Rudin talk about what summer is really all about: sunshine, vacations, and candidates pandering to conventions held by special interest groups who'd like to hear those candidates tell them exactly what they'd like to hear. Accordingly, Sen. McCain spoke at the NAACP Convention yesterday and had kind words for Sen. Obama. Plus, the infamous New Yorker magazine cover: was it funny? And more importantly, are there any funny Obama jokes out there to tell?

Ken and Ron tackle all this and more. Listen here:

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