The Issues

New York public radio host Brian Lehrer has done a great service to those voters (you know who you are) who want to be informed rather than make their decision based on sound bites and attack ads. He covered one issue a day for thirty days, inviting representatives of both sides to share their points of view. The big plus is that a number of issues that have received little attention during the campaign have been covered by Lehrer's series, and some that have been dumbed down to catch phrases have been examined in detail.

The Daily Show can only fill in so much of the knowledge gap. Lehrer's WNYC program is on the web here.