The show begins with a collection of interviews (taken from people in Pittsburg, the Watts area of Los Angeles, and Palo Alto County in Iowa) focusing on various people's opinions of the 1980 Presidential candidates President Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and John Anderson and political advertisements from past Presidential races. The show also focuses on the close Congressional races of 1980, the political advertisements of those races, and the Congressional scandals of 1980. The last portion of the show focuses on the debate between voting or not voting in the 1980 Presidential election, examines the importance of voting in past Presidential elections, and concludes with and interview with Charles Peters where he discusses the workings and problems of Washington, D.C. in 1980.

Ted Watkins, Linda Wertheimer, Cokie Roberts, Scott Simon, Dwight Eisenhower, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Representative Michael Ozzie Myers, Representative Robert Bauman, Senator Barry Goldwater, Jacob Javits, Alfonz D'Amato, Elizabeth Holtzman, Representative Jim Wright, Representative John Brademas, Representative Morris Udall, Richard Huff, Senator Frank Church, Senator John Culver, Representative Bob Eckhardt, Pat Brown, Gerald Ford, Lucy Wilson Benson, Ted Becker.