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NPR's Steve Inskeep reports on the election post-mortem held by The Democratic Leadership Council, a group of moderate Democrats, who met yesterday in Washington. They talked about how their party might have done better in the election and disagreed fundamentally on the campaign strategy pursued by their Presidential candidate.

NPR's Mike Shuster reports from Jerusalem on the Israeli election for prime minister that will be held tomorrow. Prime Minister Ehud Barak and his challenger, right-wing party leader Ariel Sharon, wrapped up their campaigns yesterday. The latest polls show Barak trailing Sharon by 20 points.

NPR's Pam Fessler reports the Republican party is starting to settle into the possibility of controlling the White House for the next four years. But they still have a perfectly divided Senate to deal with - half Republican and half Democrat. That means the end of the election controversy has little hope of lowering the partisan tension.

NPR's Kenneth Walker in Johannesburg reports South African voters go the polls Tuesday in the first multiracial municipal elections since the end of the Apartheid era. The country's main political parties have aggressively courted black voters, leaving white South Africans feeling marginalized.

The two majority party Presidential candidates are moving into high gear for the weekend before the elections. George W. Bush is attacking Al Gore as a divisive big spender. But the Republican is also working to move beyond an admission that he was arrested for drunk driving in 1976. NPR's Steve Inskeep is traveling with the Bush campaign.

NPR's Elizabeth Blair reports on composer Aaron Copland, who would have been 100 years old today. Copland's music has become a symbol of Americana, but some details about his life remain little known. Copland was Jewish, homosexual, and often identified with the Communist Party. Some believe these affiliations made his music all the richer.

Campaign 2000 is already one for the record books: the most money spent by the presidential candidates and their parties; most money raised at a single event; most expensive Senate race; most expensive House race; most money spent by an individual for his own campaign. NPR's Peter Overby catalogs some of the spending and looks at how the records fell so fast.

In the second of two commentaries on abortion, Democratic activist Julia King worries that her party may be softening its support for abortion rights at a time when, she says, conservatives are working harder than ever to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Michele Norris talks with Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL), who gained a national profile when he spoke last year at the Democratic Convention. Obama points out that as 99th-ranked senator in seniority in the minority party, discipline and prioritization are key to achieving his goals.

The Senate confirms Alberto Gonzales as attorney general, 60-36. The vote was mostly along party lines, with nearly every Democrat voting no. Several lawmakers criticized his policies on interrogating detainees in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.