Summary: <br> <br> <br> Less than two weeks to go now, and while most surveys show Hillary Clinton with a lead, Donald Trump insists that despite the “rigged” system and the questionable polls, he is going to surprise a lot of people on Election Day. <a href="http://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/profile/janet-hook">Janet Hook</a> of the Wall Street Journal lays out where the race stands and what we can expect in the next week plus.<br> <br> Even if the presidential race has lost much of its suspense, the battle for the Senate is as heated — and consequential — as ever. <a href="https://www.ralstonreports.com">Jon Ralston</a> of the Ralston Report, an expert on Nevada politics, analyzes the contest in the Silver State where Sen. Harry Reid (D) is retiring after 30 years … and which may be the only state where the GOP has a chance for a pickup. And <a href="http://kcur.org/people/steve-kraske">Steve Kraske</a> of the Kansas City Star and KCUR talks about the race in Missouri, where Republican incumbent Roy Blunt is finding himself in an unexpectedly tough battle.<br> <br> <br> And with the death this week of <a href="http://tomhayden.com">Tom Hayden</a>, we replay a 2015 interview we had with him when he talked about his role in the demonstrations outside the 1968 Democratic convention and the conspiracy trial that followed.<br> <a href="http://www.voanews.com/a/tom-hayden-obit/3563576.html">Photo via AP</a><br> Music used in this podcast:<br> <a href="https://youtu.be/bfLZfyphg0M">Nasty Girl by Vanity 6</a><br> <a href="https://youtu.be/Tyvn3QR7BRk">I’m Your Puppet by James and Bobby Purify</a><br> <a href="https://youtu.be/XT72CgEJQNQ">Viva Las Vegas by Dead Kennedys</a> <br> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Whistle-Jay-BILL-STAINES/dp/B00000C3WM">Missouri River Song by Bill Staines</a><br> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XIh1ts9byk">Cactus Man song</a><br> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001L5VYFI/ref=dm_ws_sp_ps_dp">Chicago by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young</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>
