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Once upon a time, there lived a Daddy bird. This was a very normal bird. It did not sing pretty songs. It did not have colorful feathers but it did have thing that made it stand out from the other birds.

It had a very long tail feather. And with this long tail feather, the bird could do wonderful tricks. He could fly in circles and fly at super-fast speed. Daddy bird lived on a quiet street, at a yellow house. Its nest was on top of a basketball pole that the kids who lived in the yellow house had outgrown.

The bird was a daddy bird and had two baby birds in its nest. One of the baby birds had a long tail feather like the daddy bird. The other baby bird did not. Instead, it had wings with many colors like the mommy bird.

This bird family lived at the yellow house all summer long. The mommy and daddy birds came back for many summers and had many more baby birds but only one, the very first baby bird, had a long tail feather and could do tricks like daddy bird.

1. Did the daddy bird have more than 1 baby bird?
2. What did the first baby bird inherit from its father?
3. Did the long tail feather help the birds do tricks?
4. What shape did the father bird fly in?
5. What color was the house they lived at?
6. Was it on a noisy, busy road?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Yes
2. A long tail feather.
3. Yes
4. Circles.
5. Yellow
6. unknown

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Washington (CNN) -- President James K. Polk holds a distinction among those who have sought the nation's top job: He's the only major candidate to win the White House despite losing the vote in the state where he was born and the state where he lived.

It happened in 1844, and now 168 years later, Republican nominee Mitt Romney may need to duplicate Polk's feat if he wants to defeat President Barack Obama in Tuesday's election.

According to polls, Romney faces the prospect of losing both the state of his birth, Michigan, and the state where he lives and served as governor, Massachusetts.

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Obama holds a double digit lead in Massachusetts, but the race is closer in Michigan, with the polls tightening, though the president remains in front.

Under the Electoral College system, each state is worth a certain number of electoral votes based on population. There are a total of 538 electoral votes available, meaning 270 are required to win.

Romney has many plausible paths to victory on Tuesday without winning Michigan or Massachusetts.

Yet the prospect that he might lose either or both raises the question of how many other presidential candidates in U.S. history also were unable to win their birth or home states?

Winners who overcame the loss of a state with strong personal ties included Abraham Lincoln, Richard Nixon and both George H.W. Bush and his son, George W. Bush.

New national poll shows Obama, Romney virtually tied

Honest Abe won his home state of Illinois, but lost his birth state of Kentucky in both of his presidential runs in 1860 and 1864. In 1968, Nixon won his birth state of California, where he also ran unsuccessfully as governor, but lost his home state of New York, where he had been working as a lawyer for a few years.

1. What two candidates are running for president?
2. Who is leading in Massachusetts?
3. Is he leading in another state?
4. Where?
5. What system is used in the US?
6. What is the most votes you can have in this system?
7. How many will make you president?
8. Where was Romney born?
9. Where does he live now?
10. Why does he live there?
11. Is he ahead in the race?
12. Has anyone ever won and lost their home state?
13. Who?
14. Where was Abraham Lincoln born?
15. Where was Nixon born?
16. Where did he live?
17. What did he do there?
18. When did Abe Lincoln run for president?
19. When did Nixon?
20. Where did Nixon run for governor?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama
2. Obama
3. yes
4. Michigan
5. Electoral College
6. 538
7. 270
8. Michigan
9. Massachusetts.
10. he served as governor there
11. no
12. yes
13. Abraham Lincoln, Richard Nixon, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush.
14. Illinois
15. California
16. New York
17. he was a lawyer
18. in 1860 and 1864
19. In 1968
20. California

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(CNN) -- A Mexican man who was allegedly killed on orders from his own cartel believed they were hunting for him after he began working as an informant and was fearful for his life, according to court documents.

Police say soldier Michael Jackson Apodaca, 18, acted as the gunman.

Jose Daniel Gonzalez Galeana began to worry after he began working as an informant for immigration officials in the United States.

"The victim was concerned for his own well-being and the safety of his family," the documents said, referencing statements the victim made to a witness.

When Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials gave Gonzalez a visa so he could live in El Paso, Texas, his fellow Juarez cartel members began to get suspicious, El Paso Police Chief Greg Allen said at a press conference.

Allen said Gonzalez's exit from Mexico, combined with a raid on a cartel warehouse and the arrest of cartel lieutenant Pedro "El Tigre" Aranas Sanchez led cartel members to believe he might be working as an informant, Allen said.

Then, a Mexican newspaper named Gonzalez as an informant in the arrest of the high-ranking cartel member, according to court documents. Police say Gonzales quickly became the target of his own cartel.

Police said Gonzalez knew if his fellow cartel members found him, he would likely be killed, police said.

On May 15, the cartel found him.

He was shot eight times outside his home in El Paso, Texas, police said.

Pfc. Michael Jackson Apodaca, 18, Ruben Rodriguez Dorado, 30, and Christopher Andrew Duran, 17, were each named as suspects Monday and each are facing one count of capital murder. The three men are being held on $1 million bond.

1. What did Immigration and Customs Enforcement give Gonzalez?
2. What happened to him in El Paso?
3. How many times was he s
4. By whom?
5. What happened at the same time Gonzalez left Mexico?
6. What was the date when he was shot?
7. How old was Apodaca?
8. Who is El Tigre?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. A visa to live in El Paso
2. He was shot and killed
3. eight times
4. Michael Jackson Apodaca
5. a Mexican newspaper named Gonzalez as an informant in the arrest of the high-ranking cartel member
6. May 15
7. 18
8. a cartel lieutenant