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Today, It's all about America, baby!

By Adam Smith on Nov 4, 08 04:24 AM in Politics

Adam Smith
In Miami

AMERICANS will elect their president today in the final chapter of an election that has gripped the world.
After a race that has lasted two years voters will finally have the chance to decide who will replace the country's most unpopular president ever, George W Bush.
The 2008 election has broke records constantly with more people voting in the primaries, more voters than ever registering, more Afro-Americans set to vote and is the first $billion dollar election.
And Barack Obama's campaign has raised more money from more donors and has attracted the most ethnic diverse army of volunteers of any other political campaign in history.
And there are more volunteers giving their time for Barack Obama than in any campaign and the internet has played a massive part in the election.
However, In a country where you can buy a cheeseburger within a minute some voters will have to wait for over five hours to cast their vote.
Supporters of both parties will be descending on the polls to prevent either side putting off voters with every precinct a possible flashpoint.
The democrats have sent thousands of lawyers to battleground states to ensure the vote, and consequently, the result is legitimate.
Leland Keel, an attorney from Los Angeles who has flown to observe the election in Miami, said: "I am here to observe and ensure that everyone that is entitled to vote can enjoy that opportunity.
"There have been problems in Florida in the past, including the butterfly ballots and hanging chads in 2000, and in the last election there was mistakes and misdeeds."
Mr Keel, who is giving his time for free, added: "Obama's campaign is making the unprecedented, most comprehensive and to make everybody's vote counts."
Over 20 million have already voted early at polls in 31 states in America and there is already mistakes being made.
Mr Leland added: "Voters are being asked to fill in a bubble on the voting form and are given the opportunity to write a name of a candidate, we are getting a lot of people writing Obama and filling the bubble and these are being spat out by the machines."
With polls pointing to a Barack Obama victory America is on the brink of choosing a mixed race president, just fifty years after the civic rights movement, catapulting the aspirations of every ethnic minority child in the world.
As well as the Presidential election there is a whole slew of other votes and races that will have far reaching effects for millions of Americans.
The are races for congressmen across America including the most dirty campaign in America in Miami.
Gays and lesbians from across America are descending on California in a bid to win a crucial vote that could ban gay marriage in the country's most liberal state.
And Christian Conservatives are pouring cash in to the campaign believing that if California upholds gay marriage then countless other states will sanction same sex marriage.
And in South Dakota voters are being asked to ban abortion unless a woman is raped.
But with the future direction of the biggest economy in the world, the Iraq war, a woman's right to make decisions over her own body, the composition of American's Supreme Court and the hopes of a new generation at stake, the Presidential election is the biggest vote since World War II.

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