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Welcome to the first of our weekly podcasts dissecting US politics in the run-up to the presidential election.
Each week we’ll be talking to Australia’s top US experts on the ins and outs of the Romney and Obama campaigns.
To kick us off with the long view to November 6, here’s Tim Lynch and Nick Sharman from the University of Melbourne in conversation with politics editors Rory Cahill and Megan Clement.
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