Campaign Audio from PRX

A really interesting story came out of West Virginia this morning, one that will play well in a lot of states watching primaries in North Carolina and Indiana.

Reporter Anna Sale visits a barber shop in Man, WV and asks who people will vote for and why. The answers she gets are blunt and (sometimes) worrisome, but Sale holds the yoke firm to give an unvarnished portrait of current political thought in Appalachia.

Any station covering the election at all next week will want to air this piece. Production is top notch and works easily into ME & ATC cutaways. It’s available on PRX here.  We also have other pieces and on race and politics.  Check ‘em out here.

West Virginians go to the poles on the 13th.

I’m way behind the curve today, but PRX has Obama’s press conference today where he (again) qualified his position on Jeremiah Wright.  It’s here.

We have Wright’s appearance at the National Press club yesterday here.

And here are some other pieces on African American Issues

Clinton’s victory speech in Philadelphia is ready on PRX here.

Obama’s concession in Evansville is here.

Everything is annotated and of course free. Happy broadcasting!

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NPR just sent audio from Clinton outside a polling station. Flash above, here’s the link: http://www.prx.org/pieces/25340

She talks about getting tough on Iran, going negative in PA, campaign debt, and why Obama can’t “close the deal”.

The WSJ has it that John McCain is getting around campaign finance limits by creating state victory funds in key states this election year: Wisconsin, Minnesota, Colorado, New Mexico, California, Ohio and Florida. This means contributors can effectively increase their contribution to McCain from $4,600 to $70,00.

Hope stations in the key states run something on it. To help out here’s some FREE resources on money in politics:

• A collection of sound bites from each of the candidates
• An extended interview with Jules Whitcover
  • (Whitcover wrote the book No Way to Pick A President: How Money and Hired Have Debased American Elections).
• Here’s a super fast way to get local data on money in politics
• A feature (4:45) on the history of money in politics
• Everything we have so far

We have audio from Clinton and McCain speaking in Memphis about the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King. It’s doubtful we can have it posted by East Coast drivetime, but it will be available for airing tonight and over the weekend. Here is the transcript to Clinton’s speech and here is McCain’s. Here is Obama’s recent speech on race. Here are a collection of recordings on AfricanAmericanIssues (some good stuff in there).

Also, here’s a good example of how newsrooms can use PRX to produce good radio quickly. It’s from Susan Phillips at WHYY; she used raw audio from Obama’s race speech and went to a black church to feel her city’s pulse on race issues in the election.

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News is coming over the wires that Obama is closing the delegate gap in Texas thanks to the confusing post-primary caucus. While Clinton still won the popular vote in Texas she is dangerously close to loosing the delegate count. CQ has a good wrap of this and above we have some choice audio on how this happened and the problems that came with it.

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Here is a previous post on possible legal action to come. You can license both of these pieces here and here

WNYC posted audio from Obama’s economic speech today. It’s here. I’ll be working to cut it up and find other relevant material soon. Refresh this page in a hour say.

Update: Here’s part of Clinton’s housing speech on Monday

Update#2: Here is an excellent commentary on repairing the housing crisis, here’s a long piece about what having a home means, here’s a 30 minute doc on the subprime loans, and here’s an uber-short heart breaker about loosing a home.

Update #3: Here you can find housing statistics for your state/region

We have audio from KOPB of Bill Richardson endorsing Barack Obama. A very moving speech. Here’s the endorsement and also what Clinton’s camp had to say about it. Here are some other Richardson speeches. And here’s a wacky piece putting New Mexico and its politics on the map.

Update: found some Latino stuff and Immigration. Have at it.