An Election in Wartime
NOVEMBER 4, 2006 Listen to this Story
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Dozens of mid-term races across the country are too close to call. This weekend is the final push, and what polls tell us is that the major issue in most of the close races is 6,000 miles away. The Iraq war is swaying voters more than the local economy or political scandals or any of the other factors that usually drive votes.
In Tennessee, Senate majority leader Bill Frist is retiring and all through the summer it looked like Republican Bob Corker was a shoe-in to replace him. Now, Corker has a real race on his hands against Democrat Harold Ford. Why? Well, voters tell pollsters, it's because Corker is "stay the course" on Iraq. Of course, as in most things, it's complicated. Reporter Kim Green explores how Iraq is influencing voters in the state.
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So how will the war in Iraq influence the way people vote? And what else is on American voters' minds, aside from war? Bill talks about this with Terry Madonna, the director of the Center for Politics and Public Affairs and the Keystone Poll at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
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