Show rundown for 1/8/2008

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January 08, 2008

Robin Young

THE NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARY

Here & Now is broadcasting from New Hampshire Public Radio today. Guests include:

Here & Now reporter Fred Thys, who has been talking to voters to see what are the issues that are bringing them out to vote.

Dean Spiliotes, former professor at Dartmouth College and St Anselm's College. He now runs the website, nhpoliticalcapital.com

Dante Scala, professor of political science at the University of New Hampshire and author of "Stormy Weather: The New Hampshire Primary and Presidential Politics."

Jonathan Allen, reporter for Congressional Quarterly.

BUSH'S MIDDLE EAST TRIP

President Bush begins an ambitious eight day visit through the Middle East. On the agenda are meetings with Israeli and Palestinian leaders, talks with key Arab allies, including Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the Gulf States, visits with General Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker and greeting American troops on land and sea. We speak with Borzou Daragahi, Middle East correspondent for the LA Times.

THE YOUTH VOTE

We ask a group of students from the New Hampshire Technical Institute in Concord about the issues that may get them to make the trip to the voting booth today.

This program aired on January 8, 2008.