Obama and McCain fight out key swing states

The issue I chose to write about is the competition between Barack Obama and John McCain over the key swing states that will decide who wins the White House on November 4th. I sorted through many different articles on the topic and found 1 article from each forum that I decided to use.
The first article I chose was published in the Washington Post and is titled AP polls: Obama ahead in 6 swing states, even in 2. The article is structured in a very convenient way. Each state is listed and then the article lists the poll used and the amount of electoral votes the state gets. After that the article lists the numbers from the poll. (i.e. Obama 52% McCain 46%.) Then the article lists the points of interest in the state. (i.e. which candidates are supported by which demographics and what issues are of the most importance in that particular state. Then there is a small details section that gives a few more bits of information about the state and it goes on to the next state. The article does this for the 8 swing states in the election, providing unbiased and detailed information. I found this article to be extremely informative and interesting. It is very structured and to the point. The article does not waste time with opinions or silly statistics. It is all very business like and brief. They are very careful to provide sources for all of their statistics and they don't make any claims unless they are proven to be supported by fact.

The next article I chose to write about was published on Yahoo by Yahoo news. It is titled "Obama widens lead over McCain in nation, key states." This article is also very informative but it differs from the Washington post article in many ways. The first major difference is the structure of this article compared to the other one. It isn't sorted out nearly as clear as the newspaper article. Where the newspaper article is put together very specifically the online article is written more freelance. The online article lists more than just current issues and statistics. It talks about past elections and what the candidates can do to change the trends that have occurred in past elections. It is very clear that the newspaper article exists only to give fact and to provide the reader with unbiased facts and statistics. The online article is much more free to write a more biased piece and to provide the reader with more then just proven facts and non-partisan facts.
Although the structure of these articles are different the content is somewhat similar. Both articles are focused on getting the most information out of the polls and finding out which candidate has a better chance to win the White House. They both rely on facts to give the public their best idea of who is going to win the election. The articles do rely on different polls so both of them offer different statistics. I found both articles to be extremely informative and although they had some differences both of them were similar in that they were both trying to discover and portray the same thing.

1)http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20081025/pl_bloomberg/acc_gj9gwbk8
2)http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/29/AR2008102900894.html