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PBS Election Coverage

Live coverage and analysis on air and online with PBS NewsHour.

Thursday, October 11, Centre College in Danville, Kentucky
The NEWSHOUR presents live coverage (90 minutes) and analysis (30 minutes) of the vice presidential candidates’ debate. Martha Raddatz, senior foreign affairs correspondent, ABC News, moderates the debate from Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. The debate will cover both foreign and domestic topics and be divided into nine segments of approximately 10 minutes each. The moderator will ask an opening question, after which each candidate will have two minutes to respond. The moderator will use the balance of the time in the segment for a discussion of the question.

Tuesday, October 16, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York
Candy Crowley CNN chief political correspondent and anchor, CNN’s State of the Union, moderates the second presidential debate, which will take the form of a town meeting. Citizens will ask questions of the candidates on foreign and domestic issues. Each candidate will have two minutes to respond, and an additional minute for the moderator to facilitate a discussion. The town meeting participants will be undecided voters selected by the Gallup Organization.

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KC Week in Review
October 5th 2012

Did anything happen in Overland Park this week as its open gun ordinance went into effect? Plus, Akin back in the headlines. Marking the one year anniversary of the disappearance of Baby Lisa. Plus, six years after the death of KC baseball legend Buck O'Neil, what to do with his former home...

THIS WEEK: Friday, October 5th 2012 @ 7:30 pm
(Rebroadcast Sunday @ 11 am )

OP GUN UPDATE: Did anything happen in Overland Park this week as its open gun ordinance went into effect? Why did neighboring Prairie Village vote to uphold its ban on “open carry” firearms this week?

AKIN IN THE HEADLINES: Republican Congressman Todd Akin who is trying to unseat Missouri U-S Senator Claire McCaskill (D) faced a new round of questions this week. First about four-year old comments about abortion providers and their “common practice” of giving “abortions to women who are not actually pregnant.” Then, why he failed to report 10 years of his state pension payments on his congressional financial disclosure statements.

MO 5TH DISTRICT RACE: The U-S Senate race in Missouri is sucking the oxygen out of coverage of many of the many of the region’s political races. Before Election Day we will be spotlighting some of the region’s other races. Kansas City Congressman Emanuel Cleaver is up for re-election. He’s taking on Republican Jacob Turk who has run against Cleaver twice before. Are his prospects any better this time around?

YODER: If you live in Johnson County you may think Kansas Congressman Kevin Yoder was in a hot political race. He has huge gigantic yard signs at dozens of major thoroughfares in high traffic areas. Yet, he doesn’t even have a Democratic opponent this November. Why is he working so hard with only a third party opponent?

BABY LISA: We don’t talk much about crime on this program. But as this was a massive national and international story when it broke, we would be remiss in reviewing this week’s news if we did not mention that this week marks the one year anniversary of the disappearance of Kansas City infant Lisa Irwin. Her parents say the baby was kidnapped from her Northland home. Police have worked 1,667 tips, including 500 baby sightings around the world. Yet exactly one year later, authorities are still no closer to establishing how she disappeared.

BUCK: Saturday marks the sixth anniversary of the death of Kansas City baseball icon Buck O’Neil. The Royals still honor him today with the Buck O Neil seat at Kauffman Stadium and now there are efforts to turn Buck’s former home into a museum. The Kansas City Star reports that Buck bequeathed his home on 32nd street in Kansas City’s historic Sante Fe neighborhood to his church after his death and they now want to turn it into a museum honoring his life and legacy. But the house needs about $100,000 worth of repairs, even before adding exhibits.

REVIEWING THE NEWS THIS WEEK:

Eric Wesson
The Call

Stacey Cameron
KCTV 5

Bill Grady
NEWSRADIO KMBZ 98.1 FM

Dave Helling
Kansas City Star

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FRONTLINE: The Choice 2012

The places, people and decisive moments that made the men who are competing for the presidency. Watch Tuesday, October 9, 2012 at 8pm.

Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have crafted their campaign narratives, telling you who they are, what they’ve done and how they would lead America. But there’s more to their stories. In “The Choice 2012,” acclaimed FRONTLINE producer Michael Kirk (“Money, Power and Wall Street,” “Top Secret America”) documents the places, people and decisive moments that made the men who are competing for the presidency. Hundreds of hours of research and dozens of original interviews reveal new details and fresh insights about the two candidates — and our choice this November.

Watch Tuesday, October 9, 2012 at 8pm.

Watch “The Choice 2012″ Trailer on PBS. See more from FRONTLINE.

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First Presidential Debate from Denver

Live coverage and analysis of the presidential candidates’ debate at the University of Denver. Watch Wednesday, October 3, 2012 at 8pm.

Jim Lehrer, executive editor of PBS NEWSHOUR, moderates the first debate. The debate will focus on domestic policy and be divided into six segments of approximately 15 minutes each on topics to be selected by the moderator and announced before the debate. The moderator will open each segment with a question, after which each candidate will have two minutes to respond. The moderator will use the balance of the time in the segment for a discussion of the topic.

Watch Wednesday, October 3, 2012 at 8pm.

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