Saturday May 10, 2008
We’ve got a great show for you today, covering some key stories in the news this week:
What does Gallup say about the American voter? What about those white, working class Americans? Frank M. Newport, Ph.D., Editor in Chief of The Gallup Poll and author of “Polling Matters” is talking with us about what any Dem presidential candidate faces in the general election . . . and the findings he published this week.
We’re talking about fairness at the polls with Myrna Perez, Counsel at NYU’s Brennan Center for Justice; she’s got an odd story out of Indiana from this week’s primary vote: Indiana nuns who were turned away at the voting booths by a fellow sister . . .
Plus, if you’d thought the Sean Bell story was just one of those random accidents, we’re taking another look at police brutality with John Jackson, UPenn Professor of Anthropology and Communications and author of “RACIAL PARANOIA: The New Reality of Race in America,” discussing the video released this week of at least 12 Philadelphia police officers pulling three men from a car and beating them:
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