The 2008 campaign for President of the USA has attracted more attention and prompted more people to get out and vote in caucuses and primaries than any other. It has also been kind of crazy: the initial line-up of contenders were a black man, a woman, an Italian-American, a POW held in solitary confinement for years, a millionaire Mormon, a Latino, a bass guitar playing former preacher and a Vegan who has seen a UFO. "Vote for Me" reveals what it takes to become president of the biggest democracy of them all. Written by Australian journalist and News Radio presenter John Barron, who happens...

From the corn fields of Iowa to the White House - candidates from Jimmy Carter to Barack Obama have taken a grassroots path to the Presidency. But how did the long, colourful contest for the most powerful political office on earth get to be this way? Journalist and American politics expert John Barron follows the story back to the anti-war movement of the 1960's and along the way meets some of the men and women who paved the way for the election of America's first black President in 2008. Barron encounters some well-known figures including 1972 Presidential nominee George McGovern and the...