NPR's Linda Wertheimer is one of the network's longest-serving reporters. In her latest role there, she spends a lot of time covering politics much in the way we are right now. She does pieces where she mixes analysis by experts with the voices of everyday people, talking about their concerns. Here are three stories to listen to that might give you ideas about how to format a similar radio feature.
1. Iowa's Republicans have factions, like everywhere else. Right now, what unites them is a deep foreboding about their party's chances in Iowa in 2008. But there are different kinds of Iowa Republicans. One thing they differ on is how to proceed in Iraq. A new Pew Research poll for shows 53 percent of Americans want the U.S. to start bringing its troops home now. That has cast a pall over the GOP in other states that vote early in 2008.
2. Sen. Hillary Clinton is the first woman frontrunner for president in either party. But right behind her looms Sen. Barack Obama, the most competitive black candidate for president ever. What conflicts might this pose for black women in Democratic primaries?
3. Groups of Democrats gathered last night to watch candidates for their party's presidential nomination debate in Manchester, N.H.
