This week's voting in Michigan delivered a surprise in the Democratic race, with Sen. Bernie Sanders proving the polls wrong and winning that state by narrow margin. And the presidential primaries will keep coming fast furious, almost every Tuesday and Saturday through the spring. Friday on Vermont Edition, we check in on the race between Sanders and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a contest that is expected to go all the way through the final voting in June. Our guests are Politico reporter Gabriel Debenedetti, who covers the Democratic primary, and Bert Johnson, who chairs the political science department at Middlebury College.
Bert Johnson and his colleague Matt Dickinson, also a political scientist at Middlebury College, discuss the presidential primary in Middlebury's "Professor Pundits" series. We've posted the most recent installment below; you can find the full archive here.
Also in the program, the hard winter work of pruning apple trees. Autumn is the season we usually associate with apples, but Blake Harrison takes us into an orchard in winter to learn about the serious work that's done in the cold months to ensure the trees are heavy with apples in the fall. This interview is an excerpt from VPR's partner podcast Wintry Mix, hosted by Alex Kaufman.
Broadcast live on Fri., March 11, 2016, at noon; rebroadcast at 7 p.m.
