Congress is batting around a stimulus package with the presidential election two weeks away. Yesterday on Capitol Hill, Federal Reserve Board chair Ben Bernanke endorsed the idea of another stimulus package.

They're swing counties in swing states — and they may be the spots where this election is decided. In the seventh of a series on "counties that count," The Takeaway's Political Director Andrea Bernstein talks with voters in Weld County, Colorado.

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If the NSA is listening to your phone calls and reading your emails, would you want to know about it?

This year, the blog FiveThirtyEight.com has become a political force. By analyzing daily polls, the blog is projecting that the Obama campaign's push in crucial swing states and red states may help him win 270 electoral votes.

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The Takeaway talks to the top economic advisers for the presidential candidates about how each envisions coping with the most difficult economic conditions in memory.

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Closing arguments come this morning in the four-week-long corruption trial of Alaska Republican Senator Ted Stevens. Stevens is charged with the felony offense of lying on his financial disclosure forms about gifts worth more than $250,000. The jury is expected to start deliberation Wednesday, and there are less than two weeks until Election Day, when voters will have their chance to choose Stevens' fate.

This presidential election, no matter who wins, will be historic. Either Americans will elect the nation's first African-American leader or the first female vice president. We also know that what's past is prologue. For a look at how former presidencies have shaped this unprecedented race, The Takeaway turns to award-winning filmmaker David Grubin. Grubin has produced a number of presidential biographies for PBS' American Experience.