After the democratic party primaries, there are two major candidates. A republican, John McCain, and a democrat, Barack Obama. Their pasts are totally different, but both are senators.
John McCain, republican, was born in 1936, august 29th, in the military camp of Coco Solo, in Panama. His mother is Roberta McCain and his father is John S."Jack" McCain jr..He was a soldier during the Vietnam, war , and he was a war prisonner. He is the Senator of Arizona since 1987.
Barack Obama, democrat, was born in 1961, august 4th, in Honolulu. His father, Barack Obama Sr., is Kenyan, and his mother, Stanley Dunham, is from Kansas. Obama is senator of Illinois. During the primaries, his adversary was Hillary Clinton. A black man has never been president of the United-States.
Both have a running mate. Sarah Palin, from Alaska, is with John McCain, and Joe Biden, senator of Delaware,is with Barack Obama.