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To the Point

Presidential Politics in a Changing America

Hosted by Warren Olney Apr. 30, 2008 National
America as a whole is more diverse than ever before, but it’s increasingly crowded with cities—even neighborhoods--where everybody thinks like everybody else. What does that mean for the presidential campaigns? Is "political unification" a distant dream? Also, an update on a sluggish economy, and the man who discovered LSD died today—at 102.

America as a whole is more diverse than ever before, but it’s increasingly crowded with cities—even neighborhoods--where everybody thinks like everybody else. What does that mean for the presidential campaigns? Is "political unification" a distant dream? Also, an update on a sluggish economy, and the life and death of Albert Hofman, who accidentally discovered LSD and started the "psychedelic generation."

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Credits

Host:

Warren Olney

Producers:

Katie Cooper, Christian Bordal

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