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Sanjaya Malakar is a contestant on American Idol. A blog dedicated to Sanjaya and American Idol.

At first, it sounds like a bad joke: What if a woman, a black, and a Mormon ran for president? Yet with Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Mitt Romney running for the White House, this welcome burst of diversity in US presidential candidates is no joke. Each of these politicians comes with enough experience, patriotism, and popular support to be taken seriously for the 2008 contest. Yet polls show a number of Americans still hold some prejudice against them simply for their sex, race, or religion. Polls find that, while a strong minority of Americans say the US is "not ready" for a woman or black president, a vast majority of them say they could vote for one. A more worrisome poll finds 37 percent would not vote for a Mormon - a much higher negative response than for an evangelical Christian, a Catholic, or a Jew, although not as high as for a Muslim.

A website that synchronizes latest postings from digg and reddit and shows the differences between them. People then can submit missing links to the other news source.

Join our hunt to find the next web hit - from new sites to web technologies; unique blogs to new concepts; exciting web games to new internet services and old sites and ideas with a new spin. If we think it's going to be popular or an internet buzzword, we'll feature it. Tell us if you think you have the next big success story - or think you know what it may be. We'll feature the ones we like here. At the end of each month we'll choose the best for you to vote on - the winner is awarded the 'The Next Big Web Thing' award for that month.