Episode #111: Major Candidates, Sargent Shriver

Less than two weeks to go before voters in Iowa have their first crack at deciding the next president, the battles among the Democratic and Republican candidates are intensifying.  With debates in just the past few days, David Graham of The Atlantic and Glenn Thrush of POLITICO review the highlights, offer analysis and suggest where the battles go on from here. And Terry Holt, the longtime GOP strategist, joins the conversation to try and make sense of a party battle that, at least as of now, looks nothing like it did when the race began.  Remember frontrunner Jeb Bush and strong contender Scott Walker?  That was so long ago. The rough and tumble of today's presidential politics contrast with the politics practiced by Sargent Shriver, the Kennedy in-law who died five years ago this week.  Throughout his long career -- first head of the Peace Corps, architect of the War on Poverty, vice presidential and then presidential hopeful -- Shriver was the ultimate optimist, seeing the good in people.  His son Mark Shriver talks about his father's life and legacy. Photo from sargentshriver.org This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License