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In his second run for the White House, Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich finds himself in a familiar place- high in ideals but low in the polls. He voted against the Iraq War, wants to provide single-payer universal healthcare, withdraw from WTO and NAFTA, repeal the Patriot Act, abolish nuclear weapons, legalize same-sex marriage and impeach President Bush and Vice-President Cheney. As the campaign winds heats up we’ll ask him about lessons learned from the 2004 run, what the campaigning has been like and get into some of the big issues like healthcare, the economy and his approach to foreign affairs.

Guest

• Dennis Kucinich, Congressman representing Ohio's 10th district and Democratic presidential candidate

With the long Thanksgiving Holiday behind us and Christmas around the next bend, we're taking a look today at family stress during the holidays and ways of dealing with it. We want your stories, too. Call or email the show with your holiday horror stories and how you dealt with them...or your happy holiday tales and what the secret to a successful family get-together for the holiday was for you.

Guest

• Barry Litt, Marriage and Family Therapist for Human Dynamics Associates in Concord.

*California Congressman and Republican Presidential candidate Duncan Hunter could not join us today due to an illness. We hope to reschedule him in the near future.*

The Exchange takes a break today to bring you this special series. This fall, the Third Coast Festival brings the best new documentaries produced worldwide to the national airwaves in a special two-hour program called the "2007 Third Coast Festival Broadcast". The featured documentaries, all winners of the seventh annual TCF/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition, represent radio at its finest: moving, insightful, surprising and sometimes even life changing. Alongside the winning documentaries, the broadcast includes a profile of the year's Audio Luminary Award winner, behind-the-scenes producer interviews and highlights from the Awards Ceremony emceed by Peter Sagal.

The 2007 Third Coast Festival Broadcast will be hosted by Gwen Macsai, host of Re:sound, the Third Coast Festival’s weekly documentary program on Chicago Public Radio. An award-winning writer, producer and humorist, Macsai's radio work has aired on All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and Weekend Edition Saturday and This American Life.

The Junior Senator from Illinois made a big splash when he entered the race for president back in February and in recent weeks has been catching up to Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton in the polls. We’ll learn a little more about Barack Obama, ask him about the major issues, including the war in Iraq and his plan for healthcare, and get a sense of how the campaign will progress as we head towards the New Hampshire primary.

Guest

• Barack Obama, Illinois Senator and Democratic presidential candidate

As another New Hampshire community braces itself for the closure of its paper mill, we look at lessons learned from elsewhere across the Northern Forest, in Vermont, Maine and upstate New York. We’ll see how different towns have responded – or are still struggling – with mill closures, and how their experiences might apply to Groveton.

Guest

• Steve Blackmer, founder and president of the Northern Forest Center

We'll also hear from

• Chris Jensen, NHPR correspondent covering the North Country
• John Richardson, Commissioner for the Maine Department of Economic and Community Development
• John Bartow, executive director of The Tug Hill Commission in Watertown, New York