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Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember.
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John McCain and his wife, Cindy, at a rally Sunday in Scranton, Pennsylvania -- Democrat Joe Biden's childhood hometownPennsylvania has twenty-one electoral votes. John McCain was still campaigning there last week even as polls showed a solid lead for Barack Obama. By late in the week Senator Obama appeared to have lost some of his lead in Pennsylvania.