XM Satellite Radio will have their own coverage of the 2006 mid-term elections on November 7th.
XM listeners can tune into live election coverage on Fox News (ch 121), Air America (ch 167), CNN (ch 122), CNN Headline News (ch 123), ABC News & Talk (ch 124), Fox News Talk (ch 168) and C-Span Radio (ch 132).
The day before the election XM's resident public radio guru, Bob Edwards, will discuss the races with Washington Post political analyst David Broder on "The Bob Edwards Show" at 8:00am ET on XM Public Radio (ch 133).
Bob will visit with noted author (and outspoken political figure) Gore Vidal on election day, and will have a full wrap-up of election results on Wednesday morning with Los Angeles Times’ Washington DC bureau chief Doyle McManus.
Gore Vidal is a little too left for my taste, but he should provide a different spin on matters.
"America's most controversial writer Gore Vidal has launched the most scathing attack to date on George W Bush's Presidency, calling for an investigation into the events of 9/11 to discover whether the Bush administration deliberately chose not to act on warnings of Al-Qaeda's plans.
Vidal's highly controversial 7000 word polemic titled 'The Enemy Within' - published in the print edition of The Observer - argues that what he calls a 'Bush junta' used the terrorist attacks as a pretext to enact a pre-existing agenda to invade Afghanistan and crack down on civil liberties at home.
Vidal writes: 'We still don't know by whom we were struck that infamous Tuesday, or for what true purpose. But it is fairly plain to many civil libertarians that 9/11 put paid not only to much of our fragile Bill of Rights but also to our once-envied system of government which had taken a mortal blow the previous year when the Supreme Court did a little dance in 5/4 time and replaced a popularly elected President with the oil and gas Bush-Cheney junta.'"