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The Economist Swing-State Reports: Colorado

Series: The Economist Swing-State Reports
From: The Economist
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Colorado_small The Economist, working with the Public Radio Exchange and veteran producer Benjamin Shapiro, is offering a series of seventeen swing-state reports, pulled from the magazine and edited for radio. Stations can license all segments of "The Economist Swing-State Reports" at no cost through the Public Radio Exchange. This report, produced to be dropped in to an ATC or ME broadcast, runs at: 2:51 with no musical bed and no recorded intro 3:30 with musical bed and no recorded intro 3:30 with musical bed and recorded intro They are read by John Micklethwait, The Economist's US editor; The Economist will provide suggested host intros for each report. SUGGESTED STATION INTRO: A few states are already surprises in this year’s election—simply by being battlegrounds at all. In our continuing series of reports on the swing states from The Economist magazine, we look at Colorado, whose voters have gone Republican in nearly every presidential election since 1964. The one exception was when Ross Perot divided the Republican vote in 1992. Here’s The Economist’s Washington Correspondent, Adrian Wooldridge. SUGGESTED STATION OUTRO: This has been part of a special series on the swing states from The Economist magazine, on the web at Economist.com. Distributed through prx.org.

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The Economist, working with the Public Radio Exchange and veteran producer Benjamin Shapiro, is offering a series of seventeen swing-state reports, pulled from the magazine and edited for radio. Stations can license all segments of "The Economist Swing-State Reports" at no cost through the Public Radio Exchange. This report, produced to be dropped in to an ATC or ME broadcast, runs at: 2:51 with no musical bed and no recorded intro 3:30 with musical bed and no recorded intro 3:30 with musical bed and recorded intro They are read by John Micklethwait, The Economist's US editor; The Economist will provide suggested host intros for each report. SUGGESTED STATION INTRO: A few states are already surprises in this year’s election—simply by being battlegrounds at all. In our continuing series of reports on the swing states from The Economist magazine, we look at Colorado, whose voters have gone Republican in nearly every presidential election since 1964. The one exception was when Ross Perot divided the Republican vote in 1992. Here’s The Economist’s Washington Correspondent, Adrian Wooldridge. SUGGESTED STATION OUTRO: This has been part of a special series on the swing states from The Economist magazine, on the web at Economist.com. Distributed through prx.org.

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