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Cruising for Voters
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On election day in Durham, N.C., some local funeral homes send limousines out to search the streets for bodies. Not corpses, but warm bodies registered to vote and in need of a ride to the polls. The stylish transportation comes courtesy of community activist Fred Foster. He discusses his efforts to get out the vote.
March 9, 2004
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Trying Out Politics
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Damon Boughamer talks about what he's learned about politics as the campaign manager for Pat Lang's bid for an Ohio state house seat. Boughamer says he likes shaping a campaign based on what's important to voters. The downside is, he's not making a dime.
March 2, 2004
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Working the Phones for Bush
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So far, President Bush's re-election campaign has raised more than $132 million -- and some of the money in that war chest was raised by Wade Eyerly, a 24-year-old former stockbroker and full-time Bush campaign volunteer. He talks about hitting up old friends for donations.
March 2, 2004
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The Front-Runner's Daughter
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Sen. John Kerry's campaign is flush with fresh endorsements and an army of volunteers. One of them is his youngest daughter, Vanessa. She talks about some quirkier moments with her dad.
February 26, 2004
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A Sign-Holder's Tale
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At just about every event or campaign stop, there are young people holding up signs. Their mission: to get their candidate's name on television. High school senior Robert Mack, a volunteer for Sen. John Edwards' campaign, talks about why he signed up.
February 18, 2004
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Covering Joe Lieberman
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Matthew Berger, a reporter for a Jewish news wire, talks about what Sen. Joe Lieberman's candidacy meant to the Jewish community. He also describes what it's like to be a Jewish political reporter in a year when not only Lieberman, but Wesley Clark -- whose father was Jewish -- vied for the presidential nomination.
February 4, 2004
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Folk Songs for Clark
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We hear from singer Jill Sobule, who takes her music on the campaign trail for Wesley Clark, but is playing to smaller audiences than expected.
February 1, 2004
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Air Support
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In the months leading up to the New Hampshire primary, presidential candidates log countless flights through the state's airports. Air traffic controller Len Cushing, who works at Boire Field in Nashua, has seen candidates come and go and shares his experience.
January 26, 2004
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Kerry's Guitarist
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As Rudy Guess, a guitarist, traveled to Manchester, N.H. to play for Sen. John Kerry's campaign events, he was delayed at LaGuardia Airport in New York City. He spent part of that layover talking with NPR's Robert Smith about playing on the campaign trail.
January 25, 2004
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Paper or Plastic?
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After weeks of answering questions in New Hampshire, Democratic presidential hopeful Wesley Clark got to ask one of his own at Sully's Superette in Goffstown: paper or plastic? The retired general bagged groceries for cashier Carolyn Crean, who describes the experience.
January 23, 2004
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About the Diaries
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Throughout the 2004 election season, NPR is presenting an intimate first-person look at the campaign.
In a series called Campaign Diaries, we'll hear accounts from passionate volunteers, from professional campaign workers, typical voters and election bystanders, people who organize campaign events or drive voters to the polls.
Politically Speaking
Senior Washington Editor Ron Elving says incumbents often benefit in uneasy times.
Political Junkie
NPR Political Editor Ken Rudin answers your questions. This week: What would happen if the Electoral College vote were tied.
Interviews, buzzwords, stump speeches and more from the 2004 contenders for the White House.
July 26-29: Democratic National Convention, Boston
Aug. 30-Sept. 2: Republican National Convention, New York
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