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N.C. Supreme Court candidate Judge Robert Hunter joins host Donna Martinez to discuss his run for the state's highest court and his background, including his service on the N.C. Court of Appeals.

Then Martinez revisits her recent conversations with Raleigh News & Observer political columnist Rob Christensen about the fundraising efforts of the North Carolina Senate candidates, with Civitas Institute Executive Director Francis DeLuca about poll results that indicate the mood and concerns of likely North Carolina voters in November, and with investigative journalist Diane Dimond about the political fall of John Edwards and his life in the wake of disclosures of an affair and child with his former mistress.