Episode #140: The Senate 2016. The Senator 1968




Ken Rudin's Political Junkie show

Summary: Republicans, who fear that controversial comments made by Donald Trump will benefit his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, are now concerned that a Trump defeat could cost the GOP its majority in the Senate.  <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/authors/AP-aeseNIOU/gregory-giroux">Greg Giroux</a> of Bloomberg sizes up the vulnerable Senate seats for 2016.<br> And if the Clinton-Kaine ticket is elected this year, then a new senator will have to be appointed in Virginia to succeed Vice President Tim Kaine. <a href="http://tcvscpa.com/flyers/Session_3_-_Dr._Robert_Holsworth.pdf"> Bob Holsworth</a>, an expert in Old Dominion politics, lists the potential successors.<br> Finally, <a href="http://larrytye.com">Larry Tye</a> talks about his new biography, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Bobby-Kennedy-Making-Liberal-Icon/dp/0812993349">Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon</a>,” and chronicles how RFK went from working with Joe McCarthy in the early 1950s to fighting for peace in Vietnam and social justice in the 1960s … until his tragic assassination in 1968.<br> <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2899225/Sirhan-Sirhan-loses-bid-freedom-RFK-death.html">Photo via The Associated Press</a><br> Music used in the podcast:<br> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Survival-Clean/dp/B00GBJ31LE">Survival – Eminem</a><br> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Sock-Me-Mitch-Ryder/dp/B000003GX6">Sock it to Me, Baby! – Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels</a><br> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Lovin-Spoonful-Greatest-Hits/dp/B00004KD24">Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind? – The Lovin’ Spoonful</a><br> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Adlai-Stevenson/dp/B000S4X924/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1470629124&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=Sufjan+Stevens+-+Adlai+Stevenson">Adlai Stevenson – Sufjan Stevens</a><br> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00E0CPYAU/ref=ap_ws_tlw_alb3">Abraham, Martin &amp; John – Dion</a><br> <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/" rel="license"></a><br> This work is licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/" rel="license">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License</a><br>