The Plank

by Walter Alarkon - 08/06/08 9:30 AM ET

Polls in the presidential race are inconclusive, with some showing Barack Obama ahead and others showing the race tied, writes Nate Silver, who determines that most Americans aren’t paying nearly as much attention to the race as journalists. Though a new Republican National Committee fundraising pitch says Obama would support a global poverty measure that would require $845 billion over 13 years in U.S. spending at the United Nations, the Congressional Budget Office’s estimates spending on the measure would amount to less than $1 million annually, notes Jonathan Cohn.

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