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Judicial elections. Tom Daschle's tough race. How would the Vatican vote?

A rundown of the candidates' domestic proposals.

What Al Qaeda election threat?

Still contested: Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Colorado, Iowa, Nevada, New Mexico, and New Hampshire.

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One of the many creepy things from that Ron Suskind article last week was Bush's confidence about something many of us have only speculated on. At "a confidential luncheon a block away from the White House with a hundred or so of his most ardent, longtime supporters, the so-called R.N.C. Regents," the President "said that there will be an opportunity to appoint a Supreme Court justice shortly after his inauguration, and perhaps three more high-court vacancies during his second term." How does he know?

This weekend the Chief Justice was hospitalized for thyroid cancer. Oh.