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On the home straight

US ELECTIONS 2008:All the polls point towards a crushing victory for Barack Obama. But polls can be, and often are, wrong. Desperate to get a feel for how ordinary Americans will vote in this week�s presidential election, Andrew Purcell took a road trip across some of the states that will decide the next president of the USA

Barack Obama cannot lose. Living in New York, watching cable news and obsessively checking poll results has convinced me of this. But no matter how much evidence stacks up, the neighbours dare not say it out loud.