How do your personal hopes, dreams and fears compare with those of the majority of Americans? We’ll spend this hour with polling expert and political pundit Frank Luntz, whose new book is “What Americans Really Want…Really” (Hyperion, 2009).

What are the candidates saying and does the language they select influence what you hear? We’ll talk this hour with political consultant and pollster Frank Luntz, Ph.D., whose 2007 book “Words That Work: It’s Not What You Say, It’s What People Hear” (Hyperion, 2007) has been updated for the recent paperback edition.