Sen. Barack Obama speaking on July 3, 2008, in Fargo, N.D. (MPR Photo/Than Tibbetts)
President, U.S. Senate, Congress, and the Minnesota House of Representatives are the major races in the campaign of 2008. This is the first presidential election without an incumbent or sitting vice president involved since 1952.
Let the smearing begin
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The Barack Obama campaign has said it will "respond forcefully" to any attacks made on the Democratic presidential candidate. The latest, but not the last, negative barrage comes from a book by Jerome Corsi, called "The Obama Nation."
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Dermot McEvoy: Senior editor at Publisher's Weekly. He writes about political books.
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Sid Bedingfield: Visiting professor, electronic and print journalism at the University of South Carolina. He was head of CNN's US network.
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