Katty Kay
World News America presenter

National polls are misleading at this point, it’s all about the battlegrounds and polls in those states suggest, at the time of writing, that this election still leans toward Clinton. From Ohio to North Carolina to Florida one issue matters more than most, jobs. It is, again, the economy stupid that voters care about. 

You wouldn’t know that from this campaign which, in the final week will be dominated by issues of trustworthiness, emails, sex, FBI and personality. 

A lot of voters I’ve spoken to don’t like either candidate but some will vote Trump almost as a roll of the dice - they want to see if someone else can fix their economic problems. 

For me elections are always about what they tell us about the state of the country and how people are feeling. This year I’m struck by the anomalies this campaign has thrown up, scrambling all the usual political lines. 

There was the union worker in Ohio who told me he’d voted Democrat his whole life but this year switched party registration and will vote Trump “to save my job.” In North Carolina I met an elderly black veteran who was proud to buck racial trends and vote Trump too. 

And in the suburbs of Philadelphia I remember independent women who told me Trump’s misogynistic language had set American women back a decade so they were voting for Clinton. 

You can make a prediction of your own using our Predict the president game. 

With just one week until election day, early voting has been a key strategy for Democrats in the battleground state of Florida, where Clinton is campaigning.  

The BBC's Rajini Vaidyanathan is at the scene.

Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller is under fire after allegedly referring to Clinton by an offensive word - which starts with the same letter - in a tweet.

The tweet was deleted shortly after it was posted and the Republican official's office said it was a result of a hack on his account. 

in the tweet, Miller was purported to show results of a "new auto alliance poll" in which Trump led Clinton 44 to 43. He used the obscenity in place of Clinton's name.  

Miller ended the tweet by cheering on the Republican: "Go Trump Go!"

The commissioner describes himself as a "deplorable" in his Twitter bio - a reference to Trump supporters. He has been one of Trump's most vocal supporters in Texas, according to the Texas Tribune. 

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Brian Wheeler

We promise you this is not a spoof. Donald Trump has made a campaign ad aimed at the American Indian community in which he wraps his thick Noo Yawk vowels around a Hindi election slogan.

"Ab Ki Baar Trump Sarkar," declares Trump, which the caption helpfully translates as meaning "This time Trump government”.   

The Republican nominee has adapted the slogan from one used by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Trump says he looks forward to working with Modi and vows to "defeat radical Islamic terrorism," before shouting: "We love the Hindus, we love India".

The ad has been mercilessly mocked on social media, not for Trump's efforts to reach out to a minority so much as for the rudimentary editing.

See if you can spot the join in the part where Trump tries Hindi.   

Indians respond to Trump's Hindi

The BBC's Rajini Vaidyanathan has spent much of the election listening to voters.  

Last month, she spoke to Conservative voters about whether they think their country's values have been lost. 

Donald Trump appeared to claim during a campaign stop at a grocery store in Wisconsin that one of America's biggest trade unions was backing him.

The Republican nominee asked a supporter who wanted a picture whether he was a Teamster.

When the man replied that he was, Trump told him: "The Teamsters are all with me. You know that. Teamsters are always good." 

In fact, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which represents 1.4 million American workers, endorsed Trump's rival Hillary Clinton for the presidency back in August.

There is a Teamsters for Trump Facebook page, external though.

The BBC's Rajini Vaidyanathan is live on Facebook at a Hillary Clinton rally in the crucial battleground state of Florida. 

We ask supporters, will the latest FBI email probe cost Clinton votes?

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Hillary Clinton has ignored the latest revelations about the email controversy that has enveloped her on the campaign trail and instead focused on Donald Trump's demeaning comments about women. 

“For my entire life, I’ve been a woman, and when I think about what we now know about Donald Trump and what he has been doing for 30 years, he has spent a great deal of time demeaning, degrading and assaulting women," she told a crowd in Dade City, Florida.

“I would, frankly, rather be here talking about anything else," she said. "But I can’t just talk about all the good things we want to do, because people are making up their minds. This is a consequential choice". 

Brian Wheeler

This is the campaign ad that has charmed America. 

It's a world a way from the nasty, shouty, overblown attack ads currently dominating commercial breaks. 

Instead, it's a gentle comedy, featuring Texas Republican Gerald Daugherty, the "always on" county commissioner, who drives his long-suffering family and friends up the wall by talking constantly about fixing problems in Travis County.

The ad has had more than 3.5 million hits on YouTube and made a star of Daugherty, who is doing the rounds of the morning TV shows to talk about it.

The agency behind the spot told Advertising Age, external they had originally planned to film Daugherty fishing or fixing his car, but his wife Charlyn - who is the real star of the clip - told them "Gerald doesn't really have any hobbies".

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Starbucks has unveiled its holiday coffee cup, and instead of the normal red, they've decided to choose a slightly less political colour.

"During a divisive time in our country, Starbucks wanted to create a symbol of unity as a reminder of our shared values, and the need to be good to each other,” said Starbuck CEO Howard Schultz.

The Seattle-based coffee empire found itself in hot water last holiday season when they unveiled a solid red cup, rather than one decorated in mistletoe and stockings, leading to accusation that they were participating in the perennial "War on Christmas".

Trump supporters have gathered outside a supervisor of elections’ office in Florida, shouting through bullhorns at voters and Clinton supporters, ProPublica reports, external.

"How many Syrian refugees, Muslim refugees, are you taking into your home?" screams one Trump supporter in a video filmed by a Clinton supporter.

A spokesperson for the Palm Beach County Sheriff's office said that they are aware of the video, but "from what we reviewed we do not believe there are any violations occurring".

Theresa Barbera added that "we did not observe any infractions in the video," pointing out that Americans have the First Amendment right to free speech as long as they do not violate the law.

The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, which fields complaints about elections, received a call last Wednesday about Trump supporters violating the 100-foot perimeter around voting booths, which campaigners are not permitted to electioneer within. 

Christopher Moore, who voted there on Wednesday, said the Trump supporters were “behaving like soccer hooligans”.  

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The FBI has unexpectedly released 129 pages of documents related to a 2001 investigation into then-President Bill Clinton's controversial pardon of Democratic donor and financier Marc Rich.

The release reportedly comes in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) submitted to the FBI, NBC News reports. The investigation was closed in 2005. 

Hillary Clinton's campaign questioned the timing of the release.

The dump comes after FBI Director James Comey was accused of attempting to influence the election with his announcement that the bureau found more emails that could be connected to its investigation into Clinton's private server. 

The FBI did not respond to the BBC's request for a comment on the latest dump. 

One week to go... 

Alicia Machado, the woman that Donald Trump weight-shamed after her Miss Universe victory in 1996, has introduced Hillary Clinton during a rally in Dade City, Florida.

Speaking in a mix of English and Spanish, she addressed Latino voters, saying "this is our election, Latinos!"

"Let's work our heart out so we can finally say madam president, senora presidenta."

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Katty Kay
World News America presenter

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North Carolina, due to its changing demographics, has become America's newest swing state.

The not-quite-red/ not-quite-blue southern state has seen an influx of newcomers, blurring ethnic and class lines.

There has been a rapid rise in the Hispanic population, but a lot of well-educated whites from the Midwest have also moved there seeking jobs in the thriving urban centres of Raleigh-Durham and Charlotte.  

Many of them lean Democrat.

But poor white voters tip North Carolina's rural areas towards Donald Trump.

These are people who used to work in textile mills that have now shifted jobs to Vietnam and Bangladesh.

Donald Trump promises to make American manufacturing great again and even if rural voters don't quite believe him they think he is more intent on trying than the established politician, Hillary Clinton.

Read Katty's full piece on America's newest purple state

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"If there is a silver silver lining at the end of this democratic sewage tunnel, it is that at least it will all be over soon." 

British journalist and author Robert Colville sums up the feelings of many Americans - and those watching this election around the world - in a post for the CapX website., external

But what if it isn't all over soon? 

Colville - author of The Great Acceleration, a book on how technology is speeding up our lives - paints an extremely gloomy picture of life after 8 November, whoever wins the White House: A divided nation, a dysfunctional Congress, rolling scandals and politicians incapable of achieving anything.

Belgium functioned perfectly well for more than a year without a government but, adds Colville, "America isn’t Belgium. It’s the country that’s meant to inspire the world, by the power of its ideological and economic example.

"That’s why its friends overseas will be praying that this current political mood is a fever that breaks, rather than a permanent contagion."  

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At least seven states explicitly allow voters to change their ballot if they've voted before election day.

With experts predicting that up to 40% of Americans will vote before 8 November, the concept has received some attention. 

One state, Wisconsin, allows voters to change their mind up to three times before the vote becomes official on 4 November. 

Although permitted, asking to change your vote won't win you any friends among the city clerks that record voting.

Oshkosh City Clerk Pam Ubrig told ABC News , externalthat the process can be very time-consuming.

“All the ballots are secured in the vault at city hall. We would pull that from the group. We would let the individual, the voter, vote again and document that this was their second ballot issued. We’d keep a record of that, so they would only have up to three opportunities.”   

The woman that has been described as "Hillary Clinton's brain" - Huma Abedin - is once again staying clear of the campaign trail.

The key Clinton aide hasn't been with her boss since Friday, when the news first broke that the FBI had found emails "pertinent" to their Clinton investigation, on a laptop belonging to Abedin's estranged husband.

A Canadian judge has appointed a receiver to oversee the sale of Trump International Hotel & Tower in Toronto, after the developer failed to make payments on its loans.

The 65-storey building, in the heart of the city's financial district, bears the name of the Republican presidential candidate, and has struggled since it opened in 2012.

Project developer Talon has tried through various means, including arbitration, to have the Trump name removed from the building.

Another Canadian Trump building, scheduled to open in 2017 in Vancouver, has had troubles of its own, as the BBC's Toronto correspondent Jessica Murphy writes.

A tale of two Trump towers

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