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For those that are either not following the race or just not into politics, the magic number that each candidate has to get is 270.  As of right now, Obama has 103 electoral votes while McCain has 58.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Okay, breath Vera.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The fact that McCain even has any electoral vote at all means that God did not answer my prayer &#8211; the one where all McCain supporters will mistakenly vote for Obama. <\/p>\n<p><em>Okay, I&#8217;m off.  I&#8217;ll update properly later.  Maybe tomorrow.  If Obama doesn&#8217;t win, I might not blog tomorrow.  In fact, I will <strong><u>NOT<\/u><\/strong> blog.  God, I&#8217;m really very scared.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay&#8230;.so this is not a real update. Forgive me. I have been typing up a post for y&#8217;ll since yesterday, and I still have not been able to post it. 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