Democrat Barack Obama has never campaigned in Arkansas, where voters have correctly picked every president since favoring Richard Nixon in 1972.
The Illinois senator had good reason to skip over the state in the Democratic Party primary in Arkansas. In that contest, he essentially competed against power couple Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton, Arkansas' world-famous son. Obama secured 26 percent of the primary vote; Hillary Clinton won 70 percent.
Still, recent genealogical research shows the presumed Democratic nominee for president can claim personal ties to the state. As traced by Madison County genealogist Joy Russell, Obama's ancestors lived in the Republican stronghold of northwest Arkansas in the 19th century.
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If the phone rings, and it's a man trying to sell you an old newspaper clipping about some deceased family member or something odd that happened a long time ago at your house or business, don't be alarmed. It's only W.K. Jeffus, who lives in the past and makes a modest living there.
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Back in February, I installed phpGedView on this site and while I was not overly thrilled with the look-and-feel of the product, I felt that it did have enough features and potential for me to customize its appearance to continue to occasionally make updates to the content. However, as I was going through the other night and doing a review of the stats for this website I noticed something that I thought was little odd. The monthly stats for the website showed a sudden spike in traffic coming from an unexpected source. The stats showed for the month of May that 24% of the traffic to this site was coming from the Russian Federation whereas only 3% of the traffic was coming from Canada, UK, and Australia with the all other traffic coming from the USA. I considered this odd, because most of the content on this site is in English and none of the content is in Russian.

Back in March of this year,  I blogged about an article that appeared at that time in the Guardian (UK) regarding John McCain's possible relationship to the historic Robert Bruce, King of Scotland. The Guardian article referred to this possible relationship as "wonderful fiction" and "baloney". The other day I came across the website of Mark Humphrys, HumphrysFamilyTree.com.
Mark makes an excellant argument as to why the Guardian article is more "baloney" than the idea that Senator McCain might be a relative of Robert Bruce. As he points out the Guardian article is very skewed in its approach to debunking something that is fact really not worthy being debunked. In another blog Mark discusses a similar article that appeared in The Guardian in 2005 regarding George Bush.

In January 2005, The Guardian printed an article of genealogical nonsense about Republican US President George W. Bush's descent from Strongbow. They enjoyed associating Bush with the invader and villain Strongbow. They declined to print my letter of corrections.

In March 2008, The Guardian were back again, with another article of genealogical nonsense about the new Republican candidate for the US Presidency, John McCain. They attack claims by the McCain family to be connected to Robert the Bruce. They declined to print my letter of corrections.

In both articles they attempt to make the Republican look bad. Dare I suspect that they write this stuff because they don't like Republicans?

Please see The "John McCain and Robert the Bruce" controversy of 2008 by Mark Humphry