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    To the Point

    The Campaigns Get Testy in Swing States

    Yesterday on the campaign trial, Mitt Romney broke form and issued an angry denunciation of President Obama. "Take your campaign of division and anger and hate back to Chicago and let us get about rebuilding and reuniting America." Vice President Joe Biden created a stir of his own.

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    By Warren Olney • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    Yesterday on the campaign trial, Mitt Romney broke form and issued an angry denunciation of President Obama. "Take your campaign of division and anger and hate back to Chicago and let us get about rebuilding and reuniting America." Vice President Joe Biden created a stir of his own. "He [Romney] said in the first 100 days he's going to let the big banks once again write their own rules, unchain Wall Street. They're gonna put y'all back in chains." Chris Cillizza, editor of the Washington Post, was reminded that presidential elections are not won on issues alone.

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      Warren Olney

      former KCRW broadcaster

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      KCRW

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      Evan George

      Director of Content, News

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      Frances Anderton

      architecture critic and author

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      Chris Cillizza

      Washington Post

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    The full episode

    1 of 3
    Changing of the Guard in Egypt
    1. 0:00The Campaigns Get Testy in Swing StatesYou’re reading this
    2. 7:22The Arab Spring Gets a New Look in Egypt
    3. 43:27Caltech Wins Competition to Reinvent the Toilet
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