During the 2008 election campaign, millions of blue-collar workers were more favorable towards John McCain, but labor unions swayed many of these workers' decision by repeatedly saying that Mr. McCain wanted to tax their health benefits, and they should thus go the Obama way.

Even as the net neutrality proposal was unanimously approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Thursday, the regulation still faces a rather uphill task in the wake of evident opposition from the Congress as well as a likely legal challenge.

The American media got a new term "Twitterview" on Tuesday, when the ABC News' George Stephanopoulos interviewed John McCain, the Republican senator and former Republican presidential candidate, through the online social network and microblog, Twitter. "Twitterview" was the online interview between Stephanopoulos and McCain, conducted entirely on Twitter.