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| We begin with an analysis of the political landscape in Florida as attention shifts to the next key Republican primary following Newt Gingrich’s surprise and substantial upset win in South Carolina. Peter Brown, the assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute and the chief spokesman for the Florida polls, joins us to assess whether the angry populism that Newt Gingrich stirred up in South Carolina is ripe for the picking in Florida. |
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Then, as Mitt Romney just announced he is releasing some of his income taxes, we look into the source of the wealth of the company he created, Bain Capital. Joining us is Justin Elliot, a reporter for Salon.com who has an article at Salon “The Roots of Bain Capital in El Salvador’s Civil War”. |
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Then finally we speak with Christine Fair who served as a political officer with the UN in Afghanistan and is a Senior Fellow at the Counterterrorism Center at West Point. She is just back from Pakistan where it appears there is a coup in the making. |
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| MUSIC: Born Ruffians - Retard Canard II; Vampire Weekend - I Stand Corrected; Shabazz Palaces - Gun Beat Falls; Fugazi - The Argument |
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