One of the headline news in Tuesdays October 21,2008 stated that Madelyn Payne Dunham age 85, whom is Obama’s grandmother had fallen and broken her hip.
Since her fall there have been report of her being gravely ill and from some sources has said that may not make it to see the results of the election.
Im sure that without a doubt this will and is now affecting Obama from what I have understood in the reports she was like a mother figure to Obama.