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Coverage Of Women Candidates’ Appearance Hurts Their Electability, Study Finds →

“a study released Monday showed that media coverage of a woman candidate’s appearance actually makes people less likely to vote for her — even if the comments are positive.”

You’ve got an awful lot of people who are kind of curdled against the progress we’ve made in the last fifty years and have convinced themselves, fearfully and resentfully, that the chief guard of their liberty is a Bushmaster in their closet — not the rights that we knit together across the differences that divide us.

Taylor Branch, Pulitzer-prize winning author and historian. Author of “The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement” on today’s To the Point.

Inauguration 2013

KCRW and To the Point will be covering the Presidential Inauguration on Monday, January 21.

The ceremony will begin at 11:30 am ET with President Obama taking the oath of office on the steps of the US Capitol in DC, immediately followed by the inaugural address. Here’s a full schedule.

The Hill has the rundown: Then, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), the chairman of the JCCIC, will give welcoming remarks. Myrlie Evers-Williams will give the invocation. The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir will sing. Associate Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor will administer the oath of office to Biden. James Taylor will perform. John Roberts, chief justice of the United States, will swear in Obama. Obama will give his inaugural address. Kelly Clarkson will sing. Richard Blanco will read a poem. There will be a benediction, and then Beyoncé will sing the National Anthem.”

KCRW and To the Point will be covering the Presidential Inauguration on Monday, January 21.

The ceremony will begin at 11:30 am ET with President Obama taking the oath of office on the steps of the US Capitol in DC, immediately followed by the inaugural address. Here’s a full schedule.

The Hill has the rundown: Then, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), the chairman of the JCCIC, will give welcoming remarks. Myrlie Evers-Williams will give the invocation. The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir will sing. Associate Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor will administer the oath of office to Biden. James Taylor will perform. John Roberts, chief justice of the United States, will swear in Obama. Obama will give his inaugural address. Kelly Clarkson will sing. Richard Blanco will read a poem. There will be a benediction, and then Beyoncé will sing the National Anthem.”

Buzzfeed has some of the letters that Children wrote to President Obama urging gun control. More here.

Since Friday morning, a police officer was gunned down in Memphis, leaving four children without their mother. Two officers were killed outside a grocery store in Topeka. A woman was shot and killed inside a Las Vegas casino. Three people were shot inside an Alabama hospital. A four-year-old was caught in a drive-by in Missouri and taken off life support just yesterday. Each one of these Americans was a victim of the everyday gun violence that takes the lives of more than 10,000 Americans every year.

President Obama at a White House News Conference Wednesday

To-do list for Obama and Mexico's new president →

Via CNN. “The battle against the drug cartels is sure to be on the agenda Tuesday when Pena Nieto is scheduled to visit the White House and meet with President Barack Obama.”

Warren Olney: “How many [electoral] votes do you think that Mr. Obama will take this time?”

Sam Wang: “Florida is sort of up in the air. If I had to pick a number I’d say 303 is how many he’s gonna get tomorrow.”

WO: “303. With Florida being a possible…”

SW: “29. So that’d be 332. So that’s just, if you pushed me, made me come up with a number, that’s what I’d come up with.”

WO: “303 at a minimum. 332 possible.”

SW: “Yeah, somewhere in there.”

Sam Wang from the Princeton Election Consortium makes his election prediction on today’s “To the Point.” Wang predicted the 2008 presidential election almost perfectly, he was off by a single electoral vote.

In Colorado this morning, President Obama gave an energetic stump speech, but even Democrats agree he was uninspired in last night’s debate compared to Mitt Romney. Republicans are cheering Romney’s aggressive performance, and both sides are wondering why the President failed to seize several obvious opportunities. Was he out of practice? Was it part of his campaign strategy? Will a different Obama turn up the next time around? In the meantime, can Romney use positive news coverage to establish a lead among potential American voters?

Guests:

Rich Galen: Mullings.com, @richgalen
Susan Estrich: University of Southern California
Jonathan Last: Weekly Standard, @JVLast
Michael Grunwald: Time magazine, @MikeGrunwald
Michael Sovern: Columbia University

I don’t think that we would consider them an ally, but we don’t consider them an enemy. They are a new government that is trying to find its way.

President Obama responding yesterday to Telemundo host José Diaz-Balart’s question, ”Would you consider the current Egyptian regime an ally of the United States?” The full transcript is here.

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