Australians have embraced stewed cat as our new national dish after one was served up at a cooking contest in Alice Springs.

The three guys that know more about these Senate contests than anyone else -- Chuck Todd of the National Journal, Stuart Rothenberg of the Rothenberg Political Report and Charlie Cook of the Cook Report Political Report -- broke down the race for U.S. Senate on the Tim Russert Show.

Yep, you can win the title for grilling the tastiest hamburger in America. Sponsored annually by the Akron-Beacon Journal, this grilling contest features the best cooks around vying for 1st place hamburger. Read the story to get once secret recipies for great hamburgers like the Max Burger, Buffalo Burger, and Candied Onion Bacon Cheeseburger.

The United States presidential election of 2004 was held on Tuesday, November 2, 2004. It was the 55th consecutive quadrennial election for the president and vice president of the United States. Republican candidate George Walker Bush, the President of the United States, defeated Democratic candidate John Kerry, the junior United States Senator from Massachusetts. This marked the first time in United States election history where the sitting president was re-elected after losing the popular vote (but winning the presidency) in the previous election This was done in strong fashion, too. Bush not only finished first in the popular vote, but also became the first person since his father in 1988 to win a majority of the popular vote. It was also a very active election. In 2004, Bush received more popular votes than any presidential candidate in history, and Kerry finished with the second most ever for a candidate in history. Foreign policy was the dominant theme throughout the election campaign, particularly Bush's conduct of the War on Terrorism and the 2003 invasion of Iraq.As in the presidential election of 2000, voting controversies and concerns of irregularities emerged during and after the vote. The winner was not determined until the following day, when Kerry decided not to dispute Bush's win in the state of Ohio. The state held enough electoral votes to determine the winner of the presidency. Both Kerry and Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean have stated their opinion that voting in Ohio did not proceed fairly, and that had it done so, the Democratic ticket might have won that state and therefore the election.Bush received about 51 percent of the votes cast (62 million votes), making him the first presidential candidate to win a majority of the popular vote since his father George H. W. Bush in the presidential election of 1988. The 62 million votes cast for Bush were the most individual votes cast for anyone in history, though John Kerry's 59 million votes ranked second in that category as well.In the Electoral College George W. Bush received 286 Electoral Votes, John Kerry received 251 Electoral Votes, and John Edwards received 1 Electoral Vote (see “Faithless elector” in Minnesota section of this article).