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10:00State of the G.O.P.

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.

Guests

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)

11:00Anne Heller: "Ayn Rand and the World She Made" (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday)

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.

Guests

Anne Heller, A magazine editor and journalist.

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