During the week of the State of the Union, we asked our listeners for the song they thought best summed up the state of the nation. Our phones, email boxes and website comments all lit up, as our listeners have keen ears for appropriate music for any situation.  Here's a list what they sent, from indie-rockers to Motown classics to gospel to pop, in roughly the order they came in:

John Hockenberry walks through some moments from past State of the Union addresses, looking at the themes that always recur: the economy, health care, jobs, the deficit and changes big and small to our constitution and government.

UPDATE: Sunday 8:30pmEST

Alex here on the Sunday shift ... and credit to my friends from Friday. Much of what they planned is still as relevant now after the weekend's news. We'll still start our pre-State of the Union analyses as planned with a look at some possible changes President Obama may be preparing to announce on Wednesday. Our Haiti coverage will continue and shift to more forward looking as the grim rescue efforts end with a look at how they might begin to rebuild and compare the obstacles now with past disasters. 

The most surprising of our stories on tap for tomorrow may turn out to be our weekly family segment. This week we hear an unexpected but well researched theory on child sexual abuse. We might be understanding the notion of trauma all wrong. And if we get it right, maybe that would encourage more than just 5% of abused children to come forward. 

We're also following the rumblings around the re-confirmation of Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, still hearing and receiving responses to last week's Supreme Court ruling on campaign finance and yes, we'll have a preview of the Superbowl and recap of the NFL championship games last night. 

We just finished our Wednesday all-staff meeting, and the room is in full swing, getting tomorrow's show set up.  This afternoon, John Hockenberry will be doing an interview with Adm. Mike Mullen, current chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.  The interview will air on the radio tomorrow morning (and possibly Friday) but we'll get pieces of it up this afternoon on the website.

Adam, here, after the morning's editorial meetings.  We're looking at two main stories tomorrow: ongoing Haiti coverage, and the results of the Massachusetts election.

Here's what we're considering for tomorrow's show after the morning editorial meetings:

Tomorrow marks one week since the earthquake in Haiti, and a natural point to look at the initial responses to the event and how well they've succeeded.  We're looking to compare how humanitarian organizations reacted in Haiti and how they reacted to other natural disasters: the Indonesian tsunami being one fairly recent example.

We got this email on Sunday from Carol Fipp, an aid worker with The Hôpital Sacré Coeur in Milot, Haiti. She is trying to coordinate an airlift of injured quake victims from Port-au-Prince to their full-service hospital in Milot, which is 75 miles north of Port-au-Prince. So far, the hospital has only airlifted four patients. The New York Times reports a similar story from the medical charity Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières.

For every Thanksgiving Day grocery shopper procrastinator who hasn't picked up the essentials, Melissa Clark, our food contributor and food writer for The New York Times, offers us wisdom. Where can you best put your money to work for you at the Thanksgiving table? The turkey or the side dishes? (click through for Melissa's tips and her recipe for Spicy Sweet Potato and Red Pepper Hash)

Celeste Headlee sits down for an after-air conversation about the first mass-market rap single, "Rapper's Delight," which was released by The Sugarhill Gang 30 years ago this week. She's joined by hip hop musician Paul Miller (better known as DJ Spooky) and Keith Shocklee, who produced Public Enemy with The Bomb Squad.

The Ms. Senior America Pageant is not exactly your grandmother’s pageant ... because your grandmother could be in it!  For 38 years the pageant has been promoting the idea that seniors are active, vibrant and useful members of society.  Every year, state queens compete for the title of Ms. Senior America. The Takeaway’s Femi Oke reports from the 2009 pageant, held at Harrah’s Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

To find out more about senior pageants: www.senioramerica.org

Unemployment numbers are due out this morning and economic analyst Lakshman Achuthan, Managing Director of the Economic Cycle Research Institute, joins us with his predictions. In April, Lakshman predicted that we’d be coming out of the recession this summer. We wanted to road test some of your ideas, so The Takeaway's Femi Oke went looking in unusual places for indications on how the economy is doing. First stop: the ASPCA in New York City, where the rates of pet adoptions tend to follow people's economic well-being. Could the dogs here give us a peek at which direction the economy is going?

Next stop: Wall Street, but not to visit the banks. Instead, Femi spoke with cobbler Minas Polychronakis, who for over 30 years has been repairing shoes for rich and poor alike.

Let's say you're a musician and a news junkie, and you want to combine the two. If you were really talented, you might end up with something like the work of musical brothers Evan and Michael Gregory. They use the sound tool "Autotune," often used by rappers like T-Pain and Kanye West, to make music with the news. Evan and Michael, two of the four members of The Gregory Brothers, join us with more on how they Autotune the News.

Let's say you're a musician and a news junkie, and you want to combine the two. If you were really talented, you might end up with something like the work of musical brothers Evan and Michael Gregory. They use the sound tool "Autotune," often used by rappers like T-Pain and Kanye West, to make music with the news. Evan and Michael, two of the four members of The Gregory Brothers, join us with more on how they Autotune the News.

If the food you served on your kitchen table were to star in a film, the cast would probably not be all that surprising.

• Steak: lean, dark and juicy- obviously the romantic lead.
• Chicken: any way you dress it- the comic relief…
• And tofu: the shape-shifting villain willing to take on multiple forms…

But nowhere in the script is there a role for buttermilk. Unless that film is made by Joe York, starring Tennessee farmer Earl Cruze. Cruze and his buttermilk are the stars of York's documentary "Buttermilk: It Can Help," screening at this year's NYC Food Film Festival.

Takeaway producer Jesse Baker went to the opening night of the festival to gauge New Yorkers' response to Cruze and his buttermilk.

The most accurate polls around might be a little on the unconventional side: Halloween mask sales, schoolchildren, coffee cups, and cookies.

Mary Beth Williams hits the streets of New York to look at this year's "Xtreme" polls:

DENVER — Senator Hillary Clinton gave a rousing speech tonight, though her requests for her supporters to vote for Senator Obama fell on at least a few determinedly deaf ears.

In a crowded Denver office, I held my back to a widescreen television and a video camera on the crowd of PUMAs watching. PUMA ostensibly stands for "People United Mean Action," though anyone familiar with the group knows it colloquially stands for "Party Unity My Ass": a sharp retort from supporters of Clinton's presidential run to those pressuring them to get behind Obama's bid. Estimates of their numbers generally put them at a very small minority... but they're a very vocal minority for all of that.

From the screen behind me Clinton spoke naturally, as if she were talking to friends (no teleprompter stumbles), delivered a clear emotional arc over the course of the speech, recognized the accomplishments of her husband, President Bill Clinton, repeatedly told people that voting for Senator Barack Obama would be necessary to avoid the consequences of electing Republican Senator John McCain, and left the stage to waving signs and raucous cheers.

But it wasn't enough to convince the folks I was with at "The PUMA Den" – a Denver bail bond office repurposed for the evening's speech.

The crowd watched the speech as carried on Fox News, which obliged them by showing polls with McCain on top (big cheers!) and cutting away in the middle of former Virginia governor Mark Warner's speech for a commercial break that featured the latest ad for McCain, using Senator Clinton's own words. (Huge cheers for this, as well.)

Once the speech began, there was lots of yelling for Clinton herself, and whoops at any mention of John McCain — this from self-described "lifelong Democrats and feminists" — along with boos and hissing at any mention of Barack or Michelle Obama. The crowd fogged the building's windows with wounded anger.

There were some tears. The people I spoke with tonight love Senator Clinton profoundly. It's hard to overstate just how much. But despite Clinton's entreaties, only one PUMA at the Den said she'd even consider voting for Senator Obama come November. The rest said they intend to skip the polls or vote for McCain — a message to the Democratic National Committee and Howard Dean, whom they hold responsible for quashing Clinton's shot at the White House.