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For the broadcast of February 02, 2008
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Vote for Off-Ramp!

Off-Ramp takes an off-beat look at the primary, including phone calls from the last two Presidents, a visit to the spin room, voices of actual voters, and a star of The Daily Show.



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listenFormer Daily Show Correspondent on Super Tuesday

Dan Bakkedahl, formerly of the Daily Show, gives John his take on Super Tuesday.



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listenFast Food Dude on the State of the Union

Jeff Girod, who pens the Fast-Food Dude column in the Press-Enterprise, says you'll never learn anything about the nation from listening to the State of the Union.


listenBuy America

Off-Ramp interns Jackson Musker and Christina Huh ask folks: What are you doing with your tax rebate?


listenHow To Get Around Saving

John asks "President Bush" how do you make sure people spend their tax rebates? Three words: gift cards.



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listenIn the Spin Room

KPCC's Frank Stoltze gets dizzy in the spin room after the Republican debates in Simi Valley.



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listenYoung American

Barret Cone, friend of Bush (literally) and member of the Pepperdine University College Republicans, says the debates teach us to vote for a winner and not our conscience.


listenMcCain's New Theme Song

Off-Ramp airs a new McCain song that's not been endorsed by the candidate.

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listenRally Maverick

The Governator endorsed McCain for president at a solar panel factory in downtown. Attendee Jerome Ware was there but is voting for Hillary.



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listenLatino Vote

In the days before the Super Tuesday, Queena and Off-Ramp intern Grissel Espinoza take an informal poll of Latinos in Lincoln Park.


listenBill Can't Stop Thinking About Yesterday

Off-Ramp intercepts a campaign call from the former "President."


listenCh-Ch-Changes

Hugh Atkin made the original "Ch-Ch- Changes" video mash-up of the candidates

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listenD.I.Y. T.V.

With Super Bowl Sunday upon us, KPCC's Senior News Editor Nick Roman remembers building his own antenna to watch the first big game.



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Super Bowl Past

Green Bay Packers' Paul Hornung and Max McGee are congratulated on their super championship by Bob Hope Desert Classic glamour court (from left) Janis Coble, Florence Del Gado and Diana Turner.



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Doo Dah

Off-Ramp host John Rabe with cult icon Count Smokula, in a back alley after the 31st Occasional Doo Dah Parade. Off-Ramp commentator Mimi Pond is at left, possibly putting $5 on Gallant Fox in the fifth at Santa Anita.


listenJPL Marks 50th Anniversary of the First U.S. Mission Into Space

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Wednesday honored the team that sent the first U.S. satellite into space 50 years ago. KPCC's Brooke Binkowski was there for the commemoration.


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