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Voters in Manchester re-elected their Mayor to a second two-year term.

NHPR correspondent Sean Frederick reports.

The war in Iraq has taken center stage on foreign policy talk by the candidates. But Turkey, China, North Korea, Afghanistan and especially Iran are foreign policy hotspots that could also gain prominence as the campaign progresses. In the second of a two-part series, we’ll find out what the Democratic candidates are saying and how they're trying to differentiate themselves from not only Republicans, but from their fellow Democratic challengers.

Guests

• Wayne Lesperance, Associate Professor of Political Science at New England College
• Jen Donahue, Senior Advisor for Political Affairs at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College.

Alt-rock veterans They Might Be Giants broke big in the 1980s, and they've been experimenting with all kinds of genres since then. John Linnell and John Flansburgh are two Massachusetts guys who've been making music together since 1982. They wrote the popular theme song for TV's Malcolm in the Middle, they won a grammy, and they've got a new cd out called The Else. We'll talk with the two Johns, and they'll play some tunes for us in the studio.