The latest Wall Street/NBC poll finds that 45 per cent of voters surveyed favour Obama while 42 per cent have inclination towards McCain -- the three point lead is down from six points a month ago. The poll points to a big challenge for Obama as his party gathers in Denver next week for its convention.
Obama, the first Black American president, said Harris "is more than prepared for the job," adding that it is, "a good day for our country".
"Shame on You, Barack Obama," Clinton, the New York Senator, said during a rally in Ohio. The Democratic nomination contest will be held on March 4 here along with the southern state of Texas. She charged the Obama campaign with producing misleading leaflets on her health care and free trade positions.
Disapproving of US' reliance on President Pervez Musharraf in the war against terror, presidential hopeful Barack Obama, who raised a storm by suggesting unilateral action against Al Qaeda in Pakistan, has vowed to go after the terror network there.
Biden, 77, will be formally nominated by the Democratic party during the National Convention in Wisconsin in August.
Biden has urged the Senate not to act on the vacancy until the American people select their next president and the next Congress.
Obama received the bracelet from Tracy Jopek of Merrill, Wisconsin, at a rally on Friday night in Green Bay. He was still wearing it on Saturday as he campaigned across the state before Tuesday's primary, reports the New York Times.
In her article titled US-Indian Relations: A New Era, Clinton said that one of the most difficult tasks for the new president would be "taking our foreign policy in a new direction and restoring America's leadership in the world." "As president," she declared, "I'll reach out to our allies again and work with them to tackle global problems. America's partnership with India will be among the most important."
"What they are doing is that they're putting lives on the line and resources into the fight. So they're fighting it. We have made it clear that we will support them as they request," he said.
After the latest projections in Wisconsin, Biden has 253 electoral college votes as against Trump's 213, making it much difficult for the President to win the polls. The winner of the 2020 presidential election should have at least 270 Electoral College votes out of the 538-member electoral college.
Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama has advocated "tough, thoughtful and realistic" foreign policy for the US, and said that an open-ended commitment by Washington on Iraq was a "strategic mistake".
US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has said the elusive Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden should be executed if captured alive. "If he was captured alive, then we would make a decision to bring the full weight of not only US justice, but world justice down on him," 47-year-old Obama said in an interview to CNN, excerpts of which were released by the network on Friday.
Slamming president George W Bush's administration for not 'planning' for the troop-withdrawal, the New York Senator said, "Starting on day one of my presidency, we will begin that planning. We will begin to withdraw our troops within 60 days".
Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton will face her first major political test on Wednesday when she shares the stage with four other aspirants at the party's inaugural debate of the 2016 presidential campaign.
Top Democratic Presidential contenders, including Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, are of the view that outsourcing was an issue for Americans and favoured measures to retain jobs, including ending tax breaks for outsourcing.
Over 1,200 guests paid from $1,000 to $2,300 apiece to attend the event at the Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers.
This was the first Indian-American fundraiser for Clinton not only in Silicon Valley, but on the entire West Coast of the USA.
Joseph Biden, who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said there were still "incredible restrictions" on the press and little time left for other parties to campaign for the polls.
Consensus among media analysts was that the Las Vegas debate would go down as a plus in the Hillary Clinton column, a no-score for Edwards, and a definite minus for Obama who largely failed to show at his best.
The Senate confirmed the nomination of Barrett as the Supreme Court Judge by 52-48 votes, overcoming the unified opposition of Democrats.
"It would be my job as commander in chief, to set the mission, to make the strategic decisions in light of the problems that we're having in Afghanistan, in light of the problems that we are having in Pakistan, the fact that Al Qaida is strengthening, as our national intelligence estimates have indicated, since 2001," Obama told Fox News.
Senator Joseph Biden argued that an out of control Pakistan with nuclear weapons is far more dangerous to the United States than Iran seeking 2.6 kg of enriched uranium. "This is complicated stuff. The fact of the matter is that the Iranians may get 2.6 kg of highly-enriched uranium. But the Pakistanis have hundreds -- thousands of kilograms of highly-enriched uranium," Biden argued in a debate among Democrats seeking the party's nomination in Philadelphia.
Seeking an expansion of the UN Security Council, he said India, Japan and Germany should be included in the Security Council as permanent members but without veto power.
US Democrat presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton is leading her party rival Barack Obama by only 5 percentage points in Pennsylvania, a new survey shows, indicating that she might not be headed for a convincing victory that she needs to jumpstart her stuttering campaign. With margin of error at plus-minus 4 per cent, the new poll shows statistical dead heat between two rivals.
Democrat presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton vowed that if she comes to power she will fight for every single job that is being shipped out of the US. She promised her government would create millions of employment opportunities "that can't be outsourced". She blamed President George W Bush for standing by & watching as "we have lost three million manufacturing jobs since he became president". She said loopholes in the US' tax code should be plugged to stop job outsourcing.
However, the 68-year-old leader continues to maintain lead in some of the key battle ground states, other polls said.
The two leaders are understood to have discussed the ongoing bilateral talks on civilian nuclear cooperation among various facets of bilateral relations.
Top Democratic Presidential hopeful Barack Obama has proposed denying tax reliefs to companies that ship job overseas but said that education system must improve to check the trend.
Democrat presidential hopeful John Edwards has bowed out of the race for White House after his dismal performance in most of the primaries dominated by front-runners Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
Biden won the Republican stronghold of Georgia, a top state official said after a manual recount, becoming the first Democrat to have won the key battleground state since 1992.
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The CEO of infoUSA says the NYT article is a 'hatchet job' to embarrass Hillary Clinton and is motivated by the newspaper's support for Obama.
Immigrants from five countries -- India, Bolivia, Lebanon, Sudan and Ghana -- stood in a line during the ceremony in the White House.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is unelectable and would make the country less safe, US Vice President Joe Biden said as he launched an unprecedented scathing attack to prevent the real estate billionaire to enter the White House next January.
The new group's website said it aimed to advance progressive values.
Another major media outlet for the first time projected Hilary's electoral college votes below the half way mark of 270.
India Currents, a monthly publication from Bay Area, said in an editorial on Tuesday that it endorsed Clinton as it felt "intense outrage" after the resurfacing of an old video of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
The four candidates are billionaire real estate magnet Donald Trump; two first term Senators Ted Cruz from Texas and Marco Rubio from Florida and the Ohio Governor John Kasich.
Attempts are being made by both sides to clinch the deal before President George Bush visits India in February.
Kamala Harris is now the first woman, the first Black American and the first Asian American to hold the country's second highest office, and is now in a strong position to run for the top job four years from now.
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