Article: Blazing the trail: McCain and Obama campaign for the presidency.(John McCain, Barack Obama)(Cover story)

Photographers snap their pictures. News reporters beg them for interviews. Fans follow their every move.

No, these aren't the newest pop stars or teen actors. They're the 2008 presidential candidates: John McCain and Barack Obama!

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McCain and Obama can be seen everywhere--in newspapers, on TV, even at local diners. Election Day is less than two months away, and both candidates are doing everything they can to win.

"It's all really close," political expert Cary Covington explained to WR News this summer. "There's no front-runner right now."

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