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Guest host: Frank Sesno
Conservatives gaining ground. A new poll finds independents are moving to the right. How this trend might play out in political contests across the country and implications for the Republican Party.
David Keene, chairman of the American Conservative Union and managing associate with Carmen Group, a D.C.-based governmental-affairs firm
Charlie Cook, editor and publisher of the "Cook Political Report"
Mickey Edwards, lecturer at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School; former Republican Congressman from Oklahoma (1977-1993)
Guest host: Frank Sesno
A new biography of the Russian-born philosopher whose mid-20th century novels, "Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged", extol the virtues of individual rights and laissez-faire capitalism and still spark debate today.
Anne Heller, A magazine editor and journalist.
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