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Ok here I will post all the election information you need to know including a new posting on the electoral math every month or as needed.
I should be able to keep you in sync with the major stories throughout the fun.

Todays major story is from The Guardian

Barack Obama is recruiting senior staff to a new unit which will combat virulent rumour campaigns on the internet that threaten to cost him votes in the presidential election against John McCain.

The unit is part of a huge expansion of Obama's campaign team as he shifts from the Democratic nomination race to the campaign for November's election.

As well as the rumour-mongering problem, units are being set up to deal with other perceived vulnerable points, including off-the-cuff remarks by his wife Michelle. McCain's wife, Cindy, questioned Michelle's patriotism in February after she said: "For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country."

Brooks Jackson, director of the Washington-based FactCheck.org, an independent academic organisation set up in 2003 to monitor the factual accuracy of statements made in elections, said yesterday there had been false rumours on the internet about George Bush and John Kerry in the 2004 election.

"With Obama, it is particularly vicious," Jackson said. He added that one of the most persistent is that Obama, a Christian, is "some kind of Muslim Manchurian candidate, planted by Islamic fundamentalists to betray the country and it is very widespread".

McCain too suffers from rumours on the internet, mainly from former Vietnam veterans disputing his account of his five-and-a-half years in a Hanoi prisoner-of-war camp.

Obama yesterday began a three-week campaign through potential swing states in which he will focus on concerns about job losses, collapsing house prices and soaring petrol costs. McCain, short of funds compared with Obama, held fund-raising events.

The latest Gallup poll nationwide puts Obama on 46% against McCain's 44%. CBS has Obama on 48% and McCain on 42%. Obama is ahead in the key swing states of Ohio and Pennsylvania, while McCain leads in Florida. In Virginia, normally a state Republicans can rely on and Obama is targeting, McCain is only 1% ahead.

Obama delivered his speech in Raleigh, North Carolina, which he has only an outside chance of taking, but his campaign team said he wants to send a message he is going to compete in all 50 states, not just the swing ones.

Obama paid homage to McCain as an American war hero and acknowledged that the two shared many of the same goals such as tackling climate change.

But Obama said the two had fundamentally different views of how to deal with the economy. Reflecting Obama's strategy of tying McCain to the unpopular Bush, Obama said: "For all his talk of independence, the centrepiece of his economic plan amounts to a full-throated endorsement of George Bush's policies. "http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/10/barackobama.johnmccain

Ok get this, Pew Research polled major foreign countries, all in all about 24,000 people on who would be the best president. and Obama won....huge.....leading by 51 points in France, Germany, and Australia. The only country that was even close was the US where they are neck and neck.Just goes to show that McCain just wont cut it.

Well its interesting now Obamas chief strategist has said that with all the states in play he doesnt have to win Ohio and Florida ....and the Math agrees with him...good

Obama 46
McCain 41
Obama with small leads in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida, momentum Obama for now...It seems right now, Hes a step ahead of McCain...
Especially on the brilliant strategy of public funding...hes going to make more than $85 Mil between now and November....McCain just passed the $100 mil mark...he needs to take the money...if he doesn't. its going to get negative qucik with the coming Negative ad Blitz....Fortify your homes....its going to get ugly

Well I would say the big story of the week is Obamas Momentum...He has Minnesota and Wisconsin leaning his way and a few southern states ,Arkansas biggest.....The southern strategy that they said McCain would be too smart to follow....one problem...its working AWWWW SNAP

Bout dman time too...anyways...Most speeches from now till the convention (at least) will be about the economy...Dows under 11000 for the 1st time since 06..

If you hadnt heard Obama, is going to places most wouldnt hes in Afghanistan and Iraq and i even think hell be in the west bank soon....risky, but well have to see if itll pay off