Everyone gets to shamelessly promote his or her own new book. And I'm everybody right now. But I've got something interesting to say, so read on.

"Paranoid Nation: The Real Story of The 2008 Fight For The Presidency" is already on sale at Amazon.com, and it will be on bookshelves Nov. 5, the day after the election. (And just in time for the holidays!) At one point it was already in the top 1 percent of Amazon books. I hope that my loyal readers -- the sympathetic and the not so -- will buy a copy and spread the word.

The real story of the election sketches the astonishing number of unanswered questions and untold stories of how -- probably -- Barack Obama will have gotten elected. (If he doesn't, my fast fingers will be explaining his upset at the tail end of the book!)

-- Here are just some of the strange facts surrounding this historic presidential contest:

-- Barack Obama's current director of campaign field operations started the job of organizing the state of Iowa for an Obama for President campaign the same month in 2005 that Obama was sworn in as a U.S. senator.

-- The decision to move the date of the Florida primary, and the curious reaction of Howard Dean and the Democratic National Committee to refuse to count Florida delegates, was a deliberate attempt to derail Hillary Clinton.

-- George W. Bush made a series of decisions that all but guaranteed that his Republican Party would have a nearly impossible time of it in 2008.

-- Ted Kennedy played a key, behind-the-scenes roll in pushing Obama's candidacy early on.

-- Oprah Winfrey made a single public appearance that changed the course of the Democratic primaries.

-- Republican presidential candidates Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul played a bigger role in the GOP selection process than media has reported.

-- A single poll in Iowa all but guaranteed Obama's win there.

-- The president, Congress and the presidential candidates ignored an obvious looming housing crisis.

-- Republican voters should be fuming mad at the party's leaders, because these voters have been duped. Continued...