Ben Affleck and Matt Damon pledged their support for presidential wannabe Barack Obama at a fundraising event in Miami, Florida on Saturday.

The pair was accompanied by their pregnant wives Jennifer Garner and Luciana Barroso at the gala, to raise money for the Democrat’s push for the White House.

The foursome paid $1,000 each for tickets to the black tie event and Affleck, Garner and Damon all gave speeches.

A source tells People.com, “Jennifer Garner gave the first speech supporting Obama, and she was very witty, clever and funny. She was followed by her husband Ben, then Matt Damon. The men gave serious political speeches on how the country needs change.”

Damon later explained his support for Obama, “Mostly because I don’t like the path this country’s on and if McCain is elected we’ll be continuing down that same path.”

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Matt Damon has taken the summer off to lose weight and launch a new children’s charity.

The actor piled on 30 pounds to play the “chunky” lead in Steven Soderbergh’s The Informant and now he’s working out to shed the weight before shooting war drama Green Zone in September.

But it’s his new charity the One X One Foundation, which is taking up much of his time.

He tells USA Today newspaper, “I have to make calls. Sheryl Crow is going to play at one of our events.

“It’s the easiest call in the world to make. I just tell what the charity is about, and everyone wants to do everything they can.”

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Break out the pink onesies. Matt Damon’s wife, Luciana – whom the actor says is “due soon” – is having another little girl!

“I’m so outnumbered down here, it’s crazy,” Damon, 37, told USA Today via telephone from his home in Miami.

This child will be the third girl in the Damon household, joining big sisters Isabella, 2, and Alexia, 9.

And while they’re undoubtedly prepared with tons of hand-me-downs, one thing the couple doesn’t have yet is a name. “We decided to wait till she’s born,” Damon said. “We’re going to get a look at her and we’ll probably keep debating it!”

The Bourne star also chatted about packing on the pounds for his “doughy” role in The Informant, joking that he was in danger of forfeiting his Sexiest Man Alive title.

Even now – when he’s started to drop the weight – he told USA Today, “I’m the Sexiest Man Alive’s chunky cousin.”

How is he slimming down? “I’m just boxing,” said the actor, who’s getting ready for re-shoots on Green Zone, in which he plays a soldier. “I figure if you get hit enough times, [the weight] will fall off.”

After the re-shoots in September, Damon is looking forward to a much-deserved break. “[I’m] taking the rest of the year off,” he told the paper. “I’m just hanging out with my family.”

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Matt Damon’s wife Luciana may be pregnant, but it’s his expanding waistline that’s making all the headlines in Hollywood.

“I think I lost my [Sexiest Man Alive] title,” the actor joked to People Wednesday at the Ante Up For Africa poker event in Las Vegas.

But that’s no sympathy bump. Damon estimates that he gained between 20 and 30 pounds for his upcoming thriller, The Informant, directed by Steven Soderbergh.

“It wasn’t necessarily that I needed to be fat,” he said. “It was that I needed to be ‘doughy.’ ”

Even though the weight-gain was required for a role, that doesn’t stop Damon’s friends from mocking him mercilessly.

“Some thing are just self-evident and don’t even require making fun of,” his B.F.F. Ben Affleck said at the Rio Hotel and Casino event, which raised money and awareness about the genocide in Darfur. “I mean, the man buys two seats on an airplane!”

So how did the Oscar-winner pack on the pounds?

“I just stopped working out and basically just ate whatever I wanted,” he said. “I ate a lot of In-N-Out, a lot of burgers, a lot of beer and basically had a great time … When you’re in your 20s you can do that kind of stuff. When you’re in your 30s, its a whole different ballgame.”

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They were celebrating Ben and Jen’s 3rd wedding anniversary!

Ben Affleck says life at home is “pretty great.”

“We’re very happy. Things couldn’t be better. We’re kind of taking it easy and just kind of enjoying a little downtime at home,” Affleck told Access Hollywood’s Billy Bush for The Billy Bush Show Friday.

Earlier this week, E!’s Ted Casablanca speculated Affleck and wife Jennifer Garner were close to splitting.

Garner’s rep denied the report, telling Usmagazine.com, “There is not one ounce of truth to it.”

This summer, the dad to two-year-old Violet plans on taking it easy.

“I’m at a point now where even… vacation sort of feels a little bit like work,” Affleck told Bush. “I’d rather just kind of chill and take it easy.”

Of course Affleck has been busy.

The actor traveled through the Congo filming as a guest correspondent for Nightline about the war torn country.

“It’s definitely changed me,” Affleck said of the experience. “It’s definitely been a part of… I guess a growing sense that I have a responsibility to do something with my life that’s other than just serving mileage in some way… You have a responsibility to your kid and also a responsibility to the world around you, so all that [is] part of the motivation for doing all this stuff.”

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Oh man, that’s HOT! Matt had to put on some weight for this role, and he looks about 10 years older! Maybe he’ll get the Oscar for this one!

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Bourne it’s apparently not. Matt Damon’s latest, The Informant, which he began shooting in Illinois last month, has been long aborning – at least six years.

First announced in 2002, the film is based on New York Times reporter Kurt Eichenwald’s book of the same name about real-life agribusiness giant Archer Daniels Midland and how it was brought to justice after one of its employees leaked info about it.

That would be Mark Whitacre (Damon), who revealed the intricacies of the company’s price-fixing scam that ultimately resulted in its being fined $100 million. Ocean’s 11’s Steven Soderbergh is directing, and, from the look of early production snaps, People’s Sexiest Man Alive isn’t his usual sleek self. Guess he needs to shed those secrets.

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