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My point is that a plane crash (killing hundreds) would be a top story around the world, even if it happened on the day Obama wins the Iowa primary, hence, Obama isn't plan crash important.

If he won the presidency, that would possibly be plane crash important.

>>run4yo+(OP)
I suppose that win made top news in a lot of countries, though. It did in Germany, I know as much.

The news item was actually interesting for me, because it was the first time I watched a video of Obama. Also, I think he is under special scrutiny, and his speech seems to refer a lot to that, doesn't it? At least I thought the "change" meant that there might be a black president of the US after all?

Not trying to argue that it belongs on news.yc, but so far news.yc did a fine job filtering out the most interesting mainstream news (including the best xkcd cartoons, apparently).