Podcasts

  • The (polling) trend is not Mr. Obama’s friend
    May 20, 2012

    The candidate of hope and change is long gone, replaced by an incumbent with a record that many Americans think is taking us down the wrong path.

    The Score: Obama's poll problems [ 2:56 ] Play in Popup | Download
  • The back story on Dick Lugar’s loss and the lessons it provides for future tea party challengers
    May 20, 2012

    Even the most formidable of candidates can be beaten. But it takes commitment, unity…and no egos.

    The Score: How and why Dick Lugar lost [ 10:35 ] Play in Popup | Download
  • Ron Paul’s rEVOLution…coming to a Republican party meeting near you?
    May 20, 2012

    Rep. Ron Paul is still gathering convention delegates while his supporters continue to mount takeovers of local Republican party organizations (even here in staid Virginia). Brian Doherty, author of a new book on the Ron Paul phenomenon, joins to talk about the man, the movement he has inspired and what it all means for the future.

    The Score: Brian Doherty and Ron Paul's Revolution [ 10:31 ] Play in Popup | Download
  • How to build a new tax code for Virginia (without a tax increase)
    May 20, 2012

    Want to get rid of the BPOL tax? The machine and tools tax? The Thomas Jefferson Institute’s Michael Thompson tells us how to both and a lot more.

    The Score: Time to fix the tax code [ 14:29 ] Play in Popup | Download
  • The Score this week: Reforming Virginia’s tax code, the tea party takes down Lugar, Ron Paul’s growing Revolution, and the President’s poor polling
    May 20, 2012

    We talk with the Thomas Jefferson institute’s Michael Thompson, FreedomWorks campaign director Brendan Steinhauser, author and Reason magazine editor Brian Doherty and Jim Hoeft hits us with his Two Minute Drill.

    The Score: Michael Thompson, Brendan Steinhauser, Brian Doherty, Jim Hoeft [ 45:47 ] Play in Popup | Download
  • Scott Rasmussen talks Senate and presidential polls, and why the November election may solve nothing
    May 13, 2012

    We talk with one of the nation’s leading political pollsters about the Virginia Senate race, the presidential contest and how things are setting up now to make 2016 even rougher.

    The Score: Scott Rasmussen takes us inside the poll numbers [ 13:06 ] Play in Popup | Download
  • Ken Cuccinelli on the $1.5 billion settlement with Abbott Labs and the absolute need for a Romney win in November
    May 13, 2012

    The AG talks about an historic settlement with Abbot Labs, as well as the presidential race.

    The Score: Cuccinelli wins a big one [ 13:27 ] Play in Popup | Download
  • In Norfolk, an attack on property rights and free speech
    May 13, 2012

    Norfolk officials are set on taking Bob Wilson’s property. They also are trying to take away his free speech rights, charging that the banner he’s put on his building protesting the seizure violates the city’s sign ordinance.

    The Score: slapping a muzzle on property rights [ 12:26 ] Play in Popup | Download
  • Tim Kaine is a fiscal conservative?
    May 13, 2012

    The man who would be Senator tries to reinvent himself as a steely-eyed budget hawk. Too bad the facts say otherwise.

    The Score: Tim Kaine is a fiscal conservative? [ 5:58 ] Play in Popup | Download
  • The Score this week: a pollster talks numbers, the AG gets a big win, property rights get muzzled and Tim Kaine’s rich fantasy life
    May 13, 2012

    We talks with pollster Scott Rasmussen, Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, Richmond Times-Dispatch columnist Bart Hinkle and BD’s own Jim Hoeft.

    The Score: Scott Rasmussen, Ken Cuccinelli, Bart Hinkle, Jim Hoeft [ 45:47 ] Play in Popup | Download