Campaign Audio from PRX

For our brethren in states still covering the Democratic primary, here’s 3 (FREE) sound bite collections to help make the elections local and tailored to your listeners.

• Health Care (Obama & Clinton)
• Foreign Policy
• Economy (Obama & Clinton)
• Or all of our speeches tagged and ready to go

So how do you use these? Give them to someone in your newsroom to take a closer look at the issues your listeners care about. It can be as easy as bringing a local university professor into the studio. Or it can be ambitious like what Wisconsin Public Radio did, a 4-parter that reached deep into the community.

Other ways :

• Use them as conversation-starters for local talk/call-in shows.
• Add balance for when only one candidate comes to town.
• Generate more web traffic by posting them online and encouraging listeners to post their responses.

There’s lots of things you can do. If you think of other ways, tell me about it!

We’re all familiar now with the Clinton campaign’s 3AM phone call ad that is variously credited with ending Barack Obama’s 11-in-a-row winning streak in state primaries and caucuses. Where did this phone call image emerge first in this campaign? I think I found the initial instance in Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy address at George Washington University on February 25th. Was this a first phrasing of the dramatic moment when a crisis awakes a sleeping commander in chief? Let us know… 

Foreign policy matters in ’08. It’s easy to tell because opinion polls for US candidates are popping up in France, Germany , and now Uganda.Wondering how to cover it at your station? Check out Feet in 2 Worlds which begun a new series about views on the American election through the eyes of immigrant groups in the US. Here is one of three raw conversations between Russian Ari Kagan and Pakistani Jehangir Khattak.Looking for more from the candidates talking all things foreign? Here’s a quick list:Obama gives major foreign policy speechMcCain talks Iraq in Concord, NHMike Huckabee and Hillary Clinton on NHPR’s The ExchangeThere’s more foreign policy audio here.