One missing vote

Today, Nov 4, is the general election day in the USA in 2008.
I found an interesting video to promote voting for Barack Obama.

"Obama's Loss Traced To Non-Voter"



In this video, single nonvoter tipped election to McCain-Palin ticket.
You can make your personalized version of the video with your name in it. I made it by the name of "Hillary Clinton".

I am not a voter in the USA and do not know well which candidate is better for Japan. But I question Sarah Palin's qualifications to be Vice-President in the USA.

In her first policy speech in Pittsburgh, Palin pledged to fully fund the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). She said that the specific projects designated by Congress spend earmarks more than the shortfall to fully fund the IDEA.
"And where does a lot of that earmark money end up ?" she said. "You've heard about some of these pet projects they really don't make a whole lot of sense and sometimes these dollars go to projects that have little or nothing to do with the public good. Things like fruit fly research in Paris, France. I kid you not."

In the speech, Palin also claimed early identification of a cognitive or other disorder, especially autism.
Here, human neurexins have been identified as a genetic risk factor for autism. A recent study reported that Drosophila neurexin is required for synapse formation in the adult central nerves system.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17498701
Furthermore, Drosophila researchers at the University of North Carolina demonstrated that neurexin has crucial roles in regulating the formation of synapses and in the proper development of active zones and regulating synaptic function in vivo.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17785181

Palin mocked Drosophila research, and is ridiculed by many Drosophilists.