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Producer’s Notebook
Friday, August 29, 2008 at 7:06 am

I expected to work hard at the conventions. I didn’t expect to be so moved on a personal level. While the focus of attention was on the big-name politicians, I couldn’t take my eyes off of the delegates…

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Thursday, August 28, 2008 at 5:28 pm

Clear skies over Invesco. The press was allowed in this morning, with “real people” being let in around 1 p.m. An army of cameras already set up by 11 a.m. A Greek temple — or is it a Federal building? — has been constructed as the backdrop for tonight’s festivities…

 
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 at 5:30 pm

After 4 p.m. Mountain time, the hallways at Denver’s Pepsi Center become like tropical ocean reefs, with a million vibrant fish swimming in every direction — and some really big fish paddling through…

 
Tuesday, August 26, 2008 at 5:05 pm

Talk about uncanny coincidences. Everyone knows that Barack Obama’s acceptance speech at Invesco Field on Thursday night will take place on the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a dream” speech (Aug. 28, 1963)…

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Monday, August 25, 2008 at 4:59 pm

So we’ve made the journey from the confines of Studio 3 at WBUR-Boston to the concourse outside Gate 120 in Denver’s Pepsi Center, On Point’s broadcast home for the next four days…

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Friday, August 22, 2008 at 12:05 pm

Lights. Camera. Conventions. On Point hits the road tomorrow morning for Denver and the Democratic National Convention.

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On Point Today
Hour 2
Huckabee on the GOP
Monday, December 1, 2008 Georgia Senate

Mike Huckabee joins us. We’ll get the Huckabee view of the GOP now, and the Republican Party in the Obama era.

 
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After the Terror in Mumbai
Monday, December 1, 2008 India Three Days Of Terror

After the terror in Mumbai, we look at what the bloody attacks mean for India, Pakistan, and the United States.

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By Jack Beatty

Speaking to Tom in today’s second hour, Stanford historian David Kennedy noted that few would have predicted that the Democrats would nominate the nation’s first African-American president. The Democrats only “came over” on civil rights in the 1960s.

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Listening back on the ‘08 campaign…
By Wen Stephenson

As you count down the hours to the end of this long, long election campaign, if you’re tired of staring at the endless polls and projection maps, here’s an excuse to give your eyeballs a rest and just use your ears for a while.

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Enemies Within…
By Wen Stephenson

Sure, there’s a Halloween sound to our second hour today — a conversation with historian John Demos about his new book, “The Enemy Within: 2,000 Years of Witch-Hunting in the Western World.”

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