Whilst the Cat (Obama) is away....

Rumours that John McCain will announce his VP running mate to coincide with Obama's speech in Berlin.

The Washington Post meanwhile has just published a poll from four of the battle ground states that will decide the election

Republican John McCain has quickly closed the gap between himself and Democratic rival Sen. Barack Obama in several key battleground states even as the Arizona senator struggles to break through the wall-to-wall coverage of Obama's trip to Europe and the Middle East this week.

reports the paper

Those states are Colorado where they are in a dead heat,along with Michigan and Minnesota,whilst

while the Illinois senator has a more comfortable double-digit edge in Wisconsin, according to polling conducted by Quinnipiac University for washingtonpost.com and the Wall Street Journal during the past week

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And surprise it is the economy that voters are more worried about.I wonder whether the World tour will come back to haunt Obama