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working on political campaigns this year. From high schoolers to recent college graduates, the young political aspirants are getting hands-on experience in the election process.

Danny talks with Rev. Peter Gomes, the preacher to Harvard University, about his new book, "The Good Book," which explores the abuse of the Bible by the Religious Right to vindicate their positions on abortion and other items on the conservative agenda. Gomes accuses the Religious Right of idolizing the Bible, noting the Holy Scriptures should be used as a guide two and from God, and not worshipped as a god itself.

NPR's Brooke Gladstone reports on a group of renegade advertisers who are breaking with the pack to OPPOSE pitching tobacco to children. Last August, the FDA established new limits on cigarette advertising. The tobacco and ad industries have formed a coalition to fight those limits. Now this breakaway group is launching an ad campaign to convince their advertising compatriots to get behind the government.

Robert Dornan now looks as if he's lost his bid to return to Congress for a tenth term. Latina challenger Loretta Sanchez is ahead by close to 1,000 votes, a week after the election, with only two or three thousand absentee and provisional votes still to count. NPR's Ina Jaffe reports that it was absentee ballots and a strong Latino vote that overturned the fiery conservative in his equally conservative Orange County, California. Dornan is threatening to challenge the results, claiming that Democrats may have signed up ineligible immigrant voters.

House Speaker Newt Gingrich is facing calls for him to step aside because of his unpopularity with the general public. Some of his problems stem from the conservative agenda, others from ethics charges. Even among his usual supporters, some GOP congressmen say Gingrich should step aside as Speaker for the good of the agenda. But NPR's Brian Naylor reports Gingrich still has many congressmen behind him, and is likely to be reelected Speaker next week when House Republicans meet to elect their leaders.

the federal budget among economic thinkers. Economists generally agree that reducing the budget deficit is a good idea. They disagree fundamentally on how much and how fast the deficit should be reduced, and on the means of reducing it.

Director of the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, about what the results of the election may be.

of the gubernatorial races.

- NPR's Eric Weiner reports from Jerusalem on a real estate trend in that city which some say could endanger hopes of a lasting peace there. Traditionally, Jewish Israelis have lived on the west side of the city and Palestinians have lived on the east side. But recently a private Jewish group has begun buying properties on the east side and renting them to Jewish families. And critics warn that the trend is only adding to tensions between Arabs and Israelis.

Robert talks with Jan Vansina, a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin who specializes in Central Africa, about the Hutu-Tutsi conflict in Central Africa. Vansina discusses the potential for a full-blown war in the area which includes parts of Zaire, Rwanda and Burundi.