Friday, October 16, 2009

Geez...another article from African media....touting Obama's African birth...shouldn't OBAMBI just come out and set the record straight?

AMERICANS DECIDE TODAY. GO OBAMA!
By AP - newtimesonline.com
Tue, 04 Nov 2008
Americas

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After almost two years of campaigning, Democrat candidate Barrack Obama, Republican, John McCain yesterday brought their train to a halt in their respective home states to await the verdict of Americans.

So far, the odds favour the once underdog in American politics, Obama, the African-American Senator from Illinois State .

A Congressional Quarterly (CQ) politics monitored on BBC put the Kenyan born American ahead of his rival, Senator McCain.

Even though Senator Obama leads in all polls, unlike in other countries, aside of winning the popular votes, a presidential candidate would have to win a minimum of 270 out of the 538 Electoral College votes to ascend to the throne.

Each state has a certain number of electors who elect the president depending on the size of the state.

And so far, Barrack Obama has a lead of 146 as against 101 for McCain in the Electoral College.

These were the figures from the strongholds of the Democrats and Republican respectively.

Additionally, over 220 other Electoral College voters are leaning towards the Democrats while a little over 50 show a penchant towards the Republicans.

Apart from the CQ polls, four other polls put the dmocratic senator ahead of his republican rival. And in all the polls, his rival trails him.

The most favourable poll to the Republican was the one done by the New York Times, in which he had 163 college votes.

In spite of the polls that clearly put his rival ahead him, the Republican candidate still believes that he can pull a surprise in today's election.

At the wrap up campaigns across the country before ending up at the State of Arizona , Senator John McCain is hopeful to pull a surprise.

Americans will vote in what amounts to 51 separate elections in each state and the District of Columbia . Each state is allocated electoral votes based on the size of its representation in Congress. Whoever gets 270 electoral votes wins the White House.

While Obama has many combinations of states that he can use to get to 270, McCain's path is narrow. He has been mostly racing around states Bush won in 2004 trying to defend them while hoping to nab traditionally Democratic Pennsylvania.

In Congressional elections on Tuesday, Democrats appeared poised to make gains in their majorities in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate. All 435 House seats are at stake and 35 of the Senate's 100 seats are up for election.

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