While poll participants were clear that they prefer a Democrat in the White House, when asked to pick between McCain, Obama and Clinton, the votes were tied. Voters prefer Democrats for issues such as the economy and health-care, but on terrorism and social issues, the Republicans came out as the preferred party.
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A growing number of voters have concluded that Senator John McCain's running mate Sarah Palin is not qualified to be vice president, weighing down the Republican ticket to the White House in the last days of the campaign, a new poll shows.
The Wall Street Journal-NBC News poll found that 52 per cent voters favour Obama against 42 per cent who support McCain, showing a four per cent increase since the poll two weeks ago. The poll has a margin of error plus or minus 2.9 percentage points.
Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is spending a whopping US $ 4.5 million daily on campaign advertisements on TV, four times more than his Republican rival, John McCain as the two slug it out in the race for the White House.
Though Buffett, chief of the Berkshire Hathaway holding company, supported Obama in the race for the White House, McCain was all praise for Buffett's contribution to the global economic crisis.
As Americans queued up at polling stations across the nation, leading Democratic contenders Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton fought a see-saw battle while the main Republican frontrunner John McCain sought to bury his rivals at the Super Tuesday primaries, a 24-state showdown.
Admitting that Clinton was a 'favourite' and he the 'underdog,' Obama unleashed star campaigners Senator Edward Kennedy, influential brother of former US President John F Kennedy, the slain leader's daughter Caroline and talk show host Oprah Winfrey to convince undecided voters.
All efforts by Republican Presidential nominee John McCain to establish himself as a "change factor" seems to have gone in vain, with a recent poll indicating that most American voter still consider him as a "typical Republican." In one of the sharpest differences highlighted in the latest New York Times/CBS News poll, 65 per cent of those polled said that Obama would bring real change to Washington, with only 37 per cent voting in favour of McCain.
With about 80 per cent of the precincts reporting, Romney, who earlier lost the Iowa and New Hampshire votes, had 39 per cent of ballots in his his native state, McCain 30 per cent and Mike Huckabee 16 per cent.
Republicans convened their national convention in St Paul, Minnesota on a subdued note focussing much of their attention on how best they could rally forces to the beleaguered folks of Louisiana and Mississippi affected by Hurricane Gustav.
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Palin, who is young (44) and moderate, might be able to stake a claim to many of the undecided and independent voters, where pundits expect the battle for the Presidency to be won or lost. Aside from her physical attractiveness (she is a former beauty queen), Palin's reputation as a 'clean government, anti-corruption' candidate would be a refreshing departure from the closed doors and whispered secrets of the Bush administration.
Playing to the gallery on the hot button issue of outsourcing in his acceptance speech, Obama kept up with the rhetoric on the subject that has been a staple of Democratic campaigning and went on to spell out what he would do as President on the front.
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, who hopes to be the first black-American President now holds a three-point lead over the Senator from Arizona, in an average of national polls, 47 per cent to 44 per cent, down from the five-point margin he held over the Vietnam war veteran, television channel CNNs poll of polls says.
In what has now become a routine media query, Indian-American Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has once again said he is not going to be the vice presidential candidate with the presumptive Republican nominee Senator John McCain. Despite his daily statements to the contrary, the name of 37-year-old Jindal for the running mate simply does not go away from the radar screen.
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Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal told Fox News on Wednesday he will not run for vice president on the Republican ticket
The survey has shown that 47 per cent said they trust McCain more in handling the war while 45 per cent have more faith in Obama.
Indian-American Governor of Louisiana Bobby Jindal denied being the running mate to the presumptive Republican nominee Senator John McCain, saying he had "never" talked about the subject with him.
Bobby Jindal, the Governor of Louisiana, has ruled out the possibility of becoming the running mate to the presumptive Republican nominee John McCain, saying that his focus was on getting his state back on its feet after the debilitating Katrina. Jindal's name has surfaced as a potential running mate to Senator McCain but the Indian American has persistently ruled it out. "I think it'd be presumptuous of me to turn down something I've not been offered," said Jindal.
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has said Republican front runner and presumptive presidential nominee Senator John McCain will not ask him to be his vice-presidential mate even though his name was circulating in some Conservative circles.
A new immigration Bill 'almost certainly' faces opposition from Republicans in the US Senate who say that allowing citizenship to illegal aliens would be another form of amnesty that will only increase illegal immigration, a report said on Friday.
Polls show that Hillary's contenders are stronger than her.
The US Senate has decided to release documents detailing any drug use by American athletes.
McCain and Sen. Joseph Biden, a Delaware Democrat, said the U.S. public needs to be told more clearly and realistically the difficult challenges in Iraq.
A gaggle of past presidents, prominent Senators, and other famous and eminent personalities gathered at Capitol Hill for the swearing-in ceremony of Donald J Trump as the 45th President of the United States.
One Congressmen said the Uri terror attack along with the bombings in New York and New Jersey "demonstrate our need to continue to work together through our" counter-terrorism partnership to defeat terrorism.
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Pakistan on Thursday said it has asked India to provide "additional evidence" for the early completion of the Mumbai attack trial in which Lashkar-e-Tayiba operations commander Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi and six others are accused.
India on Thursday downplayed the United States Senate rejecting a key amendment recognising the country as "global strategic and defence partner", saying it would be "premature" to speculate about its final content.
The bill which would have given a two-year window to bring a replacement of Obamacare was defeated by 55-45 votes on Wednesday in the Republican-majority Senate.
The former Alaskan governor said, "I'm proud to endorse Donald J Trump for president."
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has warned that any military attack against his embattled regime would lead to a regional war, as United States President Barack Obama on Tuesday said he is confident of getting Congress' authorisation for military intervention in Syria.
McCain, who lost to Obama in the 2008 presidential election, made the comment while Obama was in Orlando visiting with the families of those killed in Sunday's attack.
Three top US lawmakers have asked the Congressional leadership to invite Prime Minister Narendra Modi to address a joint session of the US Congress when he visits Washington at the invitation of President Barack Obama.
The announcement comes days after Trump and his Russian counterpart held their maiden summit in Helsinki on Monday.
The US Senate has confirmed Indian-American woman administrator Nisha Desai Biswal as the Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia, making her the first person from the community to hold the top diplomatic position.
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