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Presidential elections held in the US today

04 November 2008 08:26 (UTC +04:00)

Voting started at different times, because the territory of country is situated in various hour zones.
Voters in Dixville Notch and another New Hampshire town, Hartâ€™s Location also used their voting rights. 75 people live in Dixville Notch and 20 of them have voting rights. 27 of 41 people in Hartâ€™s Location will use their rights.
Main presidential candidates are Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain. Mass media announced last statistical information on the results of elections yesterday. According to preliminary calculations , presidential candidate of Democratic Party Barack Obama left his rival Republican John McCain behind for collected opinions, donations and expenses, numbers of election offices, newspapers supported him and U.S flags, APA reports quo ting RIA Novosti that the results of 10 new public opinions were made public in the US on Sunday. Barack Obama has 2-13% privilege over his rival in all opinions. Karl Rove, close political adviser to U.S. President George W. Bush told Fox TV Channel that John McCain won social opinion on September 25, but Obama won 251 public opinions held by now.
Obama collected donations worth $639 million and McCain $ 360 million. Obama spent $573 million and McCain $293 million for election campaign. George Bush broke a record for amount of election donations collected by now. Current President collected $367.2 million donations in 2004 and spent $345.5 million for election campaign. 241 daily newspapers supported Obama., but 115 of them supported McCain. Obama established over 700 election offices in various states and cities and Mr. John about 400 election offices. Obamaâ€™s office spent $140.000, McCain spent $7000 for buying national flags.
The US media spent $9.6 million to cover pre-election campaign of Obama , $4.4 million for McCainâ€™s visits.