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Host Michel Martin continues the conversation about the big issues missing on the campaign trail. Issues like crime, caregiving, poverty and climate change might affect millions of people, but they may not win a lot of votes. Martin speaks with a panel of journalists about whether these issues will enter the conversation over the next four years.

Most of the ballots have already been cast in early voting in Nevada. Steve Inskeep checks in with Nevada political journalist Jon Ralston on voter turnout Tuesday and more.

It's an out of character move for the Kremlin, because Anatoly E. Serdyukov was a Vladimir Putin loyalist.

A bus driver had seen Shena Hardin of Cleveland pull her dangerous maneuver before. So he tipped off police and had his camera phone at the ready. Now, her license is suspended. She's been fined. And she has to stand at the scene of the crime with a sign telling the world that she's an idiot.

By holding the "Midwest firewall" — including Ohio, Wisconsin, and Michigan — the president handily defeated challenger Mitt Romney. Obama won seven of the eight battleground states and is ahead in Florida, the final battleground.

Melissa Block talks with Tamara Keith in Ohio.

Robert Siegel talks with Brian Naylor in Virginia, where the polls have closed.

Robert Siegel talks with Ron Elving about the big picture of Tuesday's elections.

The battle for the Senate was a proving ground for the new Citizens United politics. Outside groups unleashed heavily funded barrages of attack ads meant to help elect candidates while letting them keep their distance from the nastiness. In Ohio and Virginia, the tactic failed in rather dramatic ways.

Exit polls showed the economy was Issue No. 1 with voters in this presidential election. And it didn't take long for labor organizers and business leaders to start offering their thoughts on the re-election of President Obama.