Tonight's Dateline with Yalda Hakim comes live from Chicago at 9.30pm on SBS ONE, as the final week of the US election race gets under way.
While the close-run battle between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney is being played out in the world's media, Yaara Bou Melhem is on the streets with a group of young campaigners trying to make their voices heard.
The DC Young Republicans travel across the country encouraging people not just to vote for Mitt Romney, but in a country where voting is optional, to make the effort to vote at all.
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Away from the loud voices of the politicians, what are the concerns of the real American public?
See Dateline's on-the-ground insight into the unfolding election battle tonight, plus Mark Davis and Yalda Hakim will be hosting an election special from the United States on the day of the vote, next Tuesday 6th November, at 9.30pm on SBS ONE.
