Former U.S. governors reach across partisan divide with new podcast

Bredesen, Haslam wants listeners to consider that other side 'Might be Right'

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Democrat Phil Bredesen, left, and Republican Bill Haslam both served as governor of the southern state of Tennessee. (Photo courtesy of the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy)

MASAHIRO OKOSHI, Nikkei Washington bureau chief

WASHINGTON -- With roughly three weeks to go before the midterm elections, the U.S. public is more divided than ever on a range of topics from abortion to the fairness of elections.

Alarmed by the political gridlock, former Tennessee Govs. Phil Bredesen and Bill Haslam -- a Democrat and a Republican, respectively -- launched a podcast in September that they hope will help foster a thoughtful dialogue across political lines on some of the country's toughest issues.

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