The music of the campaigns

Darth Vader
Ron Paul has used Darth Vader's theme in his events this campaign season.
Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images

Mitt Romney chose Kid Rock's Born Free and Ron Paul chose the Imperial March.

Eric Danton, the music critic for the Hartford Courant, will join us to talk about what campaign songs work, which ones don't and what it means when you choose Darth Vader's theme music as your own.

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