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Linda Wertheimer talks with Andy Kohut. He directs the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. They have a new national survey that suggests Pat Buchanan's populist appeal may be bringing blue collar voters into the Republican fold. But the same rhetoric that wins working class support is alienating traditional Republican voters. LIVE

Commentator Jack Beatty says Clinton has done everything he can to keep American wages down. He says the re-appointment of Alan Greenspan is a disaster for the American worker...and his other recent appointments, Alice Rivlin and Laurence Meyer are champions of slow economic growth---again, the enemy of the worker.

in America, reports that cultural changes, especially in the role of women, are helping to widen the difference between families at the top and bottom of America's income ladder.

Linda checks-in with NPR's Elizabeth Arnold who was with the Dole and Buchanan campaigns today -- and with Glenn Frankel who has been writing about Steve Forbes for the Washington Post... about events on the campaign trail today.

plan aimed at addressing the economic anxiety of many Americans. The new agenda is a response to the fact that most of the issues that the GOP has been pursuing in Washington, including the Contract with America, have been all but ignored on the campaign trail.

LETTERS: We hear comments from our listeners.

Commentator Alan Siporin lives in Eugene, Oregon, where he wonders, after the flooding there, why only the people with property receive relief from natural disasters. He wonders why the homeless are overlooked.

about 40 citizens of Sanford, Maine participated in a forum to discuss what they want this year's campaign to be about. The citizens will be interviewed throughout the course of the political season on various issues.

NPR's Wade Goodwyn reports that a federal judge has moved the trail of Oklahoma City bombing defendants Timothy McVeigh, and Terry Nichols has been moved to Denver. Judge Richard Matsch ruled that the defendents couldn't get a fair trial in the same state where the terrorist attack which killed 169 people had occured. The government wanted the trial in Tulsa, about a hundred miles from Oklahoma City.

After Saturday's South Carolina primary, the candidates will face voters in a number of New England states on Tuesday, as well as in Colorado and Georgia. One of the states where Republicans will be voting is Connecticut, where economic insecurity and taxes are major issues. NPR's Steve Inskeep reports.

SUSAN TALKS WITH FORMER JOURNALIST PAUL TAYLOR WHO IS LOBBYING THE MAJOR TV NETWORKS TO PROVIDE FREE AIR TIME TO THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES.

NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports on the results of yesterday's rimary in South Carolina which gave the candidacy of Bob Dole a boost.