The GOP and the Lessons of Last Year's Election Barack Obama's second victory showed Republicans that the nation is changing, and that's led to an agonizing reappraisal. They're agreed on the need to reach out to Hispanics, women, blacks and Asians, but are divided on how that should be done. Rethinking core policies could alienate one or more party factions. Re-writing election rules could look like rigging the system. Will the emphasis change on immigration, big business, foreign policy and social issues? Will they look to the states, rather than Washington?

Election Day Is Becoming Election Month President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are besieged with advice about how to score points with voters in three debates starting day after tomorrow. But with almost half the electorate, it may be getting too late. Early voting is already underway in states that could decide the outcome before Election Day. Meantime, Republicans have made "voter fraud" a major issue, and Republican legislatures have passed "voter ID" laws, even when there's not much evidence that fraud is widespread.  Now, in one of this year's political ironies, the Republican Party has fired Strategic Allied Consulting — a firm it hired to increase GOP registration. We hear how new forces are re-shaping national campaigns.

Part 1: Obama Picks Elena Kagan for Supreme Court President Obama has nominated Elena Kagan to replace John Paul Stevens on the US Supreme court. She’s been a law clerk, Dean of Harvard Law, Advisor to President Clinton and she’s the current Solicitor General, representing the Obama Administration before the court.

Down to the Wire on the Healthcare Bill With Congress set to vote on healthcare reform this Sunday, vote counting is underway in earnest on Capitol Hill. Having postponed his trip to Asia, the President is back on the campaign trail. Today speaking to students at George Mason University in Northern Virginia, the President emphasized that he still believes " we can do what's right ." Jeff Zeleny is White House correspondent for the New York Times .

Obama Accepts the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo President Obama accepted his Nobel Peace Prize today with humility and a defense of the war in Afghanistan. He said the use of force can bring lasting peace. Compared to others who've won the prize, he called his own accomplishments "slight." We hear excerpts of today's " lecture " and get different reactions. Why did he get the prize? Was it premature? Was the Nobel committee sending a message? Did it create an embarrassing contradiction? (View the slideshow )

20 Days in, Obama’s on the Road Again Plans for unveiling a new Wall Street bailout are on hold until tomorrow, so that President Obama can pitch his stimulus package to the American heartland. Speaking today in Elhart, Indiana, a place with high unemployment, the President cautioned against “the same failed ideas that got us into this mess in the first place…The American people rejected those ideas because they hadn’t worked.” Tonight at 8pm Eastern, the President will hold a prime-time news conference.  Tomorrow he goes to Florida. Jeff Zeleny reports for the New York Times .

Obama Speaks on Race and His Pastor Today in Philadelphia, Senator Barack Obama repeated his objections to the controversial sermons delivered by Rev. Jeremiah Wright , the former pastor of his Chicago church. In a campaign speech, Obama said it was time for America to "move beyond some of our old racial wounds." New York Times reporter Jeff Zeleny was at the speech.

Leading Democrat Says Iraq War Is 'Lost' The Senate's Democratic Majority leader--Harry Reid of Nevada—described the current course of the war in Iraq in stark terms today.  "As as long as we follow the President's path in Iraq, the war is lost."  Reid's comments came this morning after last night's House debate on the Iraq spending bill.  Jeff Zeleny is covering a hard-fought battle for the New York Times .