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Political Junkie Ken Rudin: Vice-Presidential Roles

WUNC News | By Frank Stasio
Published October 7, 2016 at 12:24 PM EDT
Political Junkie Ken Rudin
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Political Junkie Ken Rudin
Political Junkie Ken Rudin
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Ken Rudin, Political Junkie

Vice-presidential candidates Mike Pence and Tim Kaine sparred earlier this week in their only debate of the season.Ken Rudin

What did their interactions demonstrate about both campaigns, and how do the vice presidential candidates affect the race? And in the state's gubernatorial race, ad spending reaches new highs. Host Frank Stasio talks with political junkie Ken Rudin about the latest. 

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Frank Stasio
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
See stories by Frank Stasio