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Bernie Sanders
Could this be the year Congress picks the President?
Two-hundred seventy Electoral College votes – that’s the magic number that the presidential candidates will be shooting for in November’s general election; but could this be the year that no candidate reaches that mark and...
George Takei urges USF students to pursue social justice activism
Star Trek actor and social media star George Takei is telling USF students to pursue social justice activism; in an hour-plus speech at the Sun Dome on the Tampa campus of the University of South...
Could new voter ID laws impact Wisconsin’s primary?
The Republican and Democratic presidential preference primaries are Tuesday in Wisconsin; the state could boost the chances of candidates challenging front-runners Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. On MidPoint we spoke with Molly Stentz – she’s News and...
Campaign finance reform group to stage sit-in at the US capitol
By Rob Lorei On Friday’s Radioactivity, after waiting for him to recover from his unfortunate care accident in Philly (contact this Philadelphia car accident attorney if you were also part of this last weekends car pileup on...
Chomsky, Snowden and Greenwald talk about privacy, terror
On MidPoint we heard part of a conversation about privacy and terrorism between Noam Chomsky, Glenn Greenwald and Edward Snowdon. Privacy, security and terrorism On Friday at the University of Arizona College of Behavioral Sciences in...
Interviews with Trump protesters in NYC & Arizona
Some of the largest protests against Donald Trump occurred over the weekend. In Arizona, organizers shut down a highway leading to an event for the frontrunner to the Republican nomination for president. In New York protesters...
American Character & The Presidential Race
It really is difficult to escape the fact that we are living in very strange times, the Presidential race becomes more bizarre as every moment passes. In the next edition of Life Elsewhere we explore...
Crowds protest Trump in Tampa before speech
Donald Trump was interrupted several times by protesters as he spoke Monday at the Tampa Convention Center; outside anti-Trump demonstrators and supporters of the billionaire businessman traded words. On MidPoint we interviewed one organizer of...
Bernie Sanders brings his political revolution to Tampa
Senator Bernie Sanders draws nearly ten thousand people to Tampa rally. Yesterday evening, in an expo hall on the Florida Fairgrounds, the democratic presidential candidate Sanders brought his message to Florida voters. Bernie Sanders speech...
Young Florida voters challenge Democrats on “superdelegates”
Some young Tampa filmmakers have set their sights on humorously criticizing the Democratic Party’s use of “superdelegates;” we interview a founder of Peace House and hear clips from Sunday’s Democratic presidential debate. There was a lot...
Florida This Week; Listeners discuss the CNN Democratic Debate in Flint, Mich.
By Rob Lorei On the first half of today’s show we listen back to the latest Florida This Week, a political talk show on local PBS station WEDU that is moderated by Rob Lorei. This...
MidPoint for Thursday, March 3 with Democratic strategist Barry Edwards
We discussed the latest in the presidential and Florida U.S. Senate races with Democratic Party political strategist and radio commentator Barry Edwards. The latest on Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Marco Rubio, Donald Trump and others...
