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White House race a cliffhanger as home stretch looms (AFP)

 
AFP - The historic, twisting, cliffhanger White House race is swinging into an eight-week sprint to the finish, with John McCain and Barack Obama locked up in the polls and bare knuckle-rhetoric flying. (link)

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