Patricia Guadalupe Columnist

The Congress passed, and the president Bush signed, the plan of “rescue“ for the financial system, in an attempt of avoiding a collapse of the credit system. Most of the Latin legislators had voted initially against the proposal, saying that they were understanding that there was a financial crisis, but also there is another crisis in the system mortgage that affects many Latin people and the "rescue" was leaving them out. Some of them into the second return changed his votes, and both cameras recessed to pay attention to the elections that approach. The legislators went away, but the topic of the financial crisis worries most of the voters, and it keeps on being the principal topic of the presidential contest between the democrat Barack Obama and the republican John McCain.

The economic factor has managed to put another importance topic aside: the war in Iraq. When was it the last time that we saw a fund note on the war? The candidates speak about the topic, and occasionally it is discussed, but it is not so in the mind of the voters like the economy.

All this financial crisis is serving to raise the support of senator Barack Obama against his rival John McCain, with more voters saying that they believe that a democratic president can solve better the economic problems of the country. But although the opinion polls for the time being give the advantage to Obama, it is still a very closed career, and the debate that stays between the candidates could play a role.

The debate of last week between the candidates for the vicepresidency, the democrat Joe Biden and the republican Sarah Palin, was the only one programmed between these two candidates, and for the attention that has paid, it is the vicepresidential debate with the biggest number of viewers in the history of the country. Most of the opinion polls say that governor Palin did better than he was waiting, as Bigive.

And the second debate this last Tuesday between Obama and McCain focused in the economy, but several of the opinion polls indicate that the two made it equal of good.

All this represents a well interesting factor of this election: the tall percentage of voters who say to be undecided. With less than one month so that the presidential and congressional elections should be carried out, at least a third part of the voters says to be undecided. It does not seem to be a very high number, but yes it it is being so close to the elections. Both the democrats and the republicans say to be registering a high number of voters, but many also are registering to vote without saying specially under which party they would be registered. Or, the highest number of voters' records is seen between the lines of those who say to be “"independent".

The good thing of all this, clearly, the fact is that with major attention there comes major participation in the electoral process.