Most important news story of the week (ending August 29, 2008)

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Poll question: Most important news story of the week (ending August 29, 2008)

Most important news story of the week, ending August 29, 2008

Choice 1: the nomination of Barack Hussein Obama as the Democratic candidate for the President of the United States!

Choice 2: Bayer sued as maker of pesticide that kills bees; unrelated explosion at Bayer plant in West Virginia

Choice 3: Hurricane Gustav

Choice 4: Both the Democratic and Republican parties miss the Texas state deadline to register a candidate for U.S. President

Choice 5: U.S. Attorney dismisses gunmen in Denver due to "insufficient evidence" constituting "a true threat" to Obama

Choice 6: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says Russia intends eventually to absorb the breakaway Georgian province of South Ossetia

Choice 7: New Yorkers are contracting HIV at three times the national rate

Choice 8: Louisiana GOP governor signs Christer "Science Education Act" into law allowing teachers to bring "supplemental textbooks" into science classes and school district of Clayton County, Georgia loses accreditation, the first U.S. district to do so in 40 years

Choice 9: Abramoff sentence may be reduced

Choice 10: Other (please elaborate in reply)