Thousands of people took to the streets across the United States to celebrate the victory of incumbent Barack Obama in the United States presidential election. We bring you some images of the party.
Rediff.com's Bikash Mohapatra, who is covering the US presidential elections, finds out what experts are saying about President Barack Obama's chances of a re-election.
As many as 56 per cent of Americans think incumbent Barack Obama will win the 2012 presidential election, compared with 36 per cent who think Mitt Romney will win, a poll said on Tuesday.
Days before America goes to polls to decide its next president, incumbent Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney appear to be a running a very close race, though a majority of Americans still believe the incumbent is better poised for a victory, if a series of national polls are to be believed.
If Xi Jinping can establish control over the PLA Ground Force, relations between India and China will settle down to an even keel. The next few weeks will show whether Xi has finally succeeded in gaining control over the PLA Ground Force. That could bring about the substantive shift in India-China relations that both our leaders have been working for, observes Ambassador Prabhat Shukla.
The Obama camp has launched a withering attack on Mitt Romney, who is leading the race to bag the Republican nomination to challenge incumbent Barack Obama in the presidential elections, labeling him "a corporate raider" who profited from the termination of average workers.
Notwithstanding the latest opinion polls suggesting a close fight between incumbent Barack Obama and his rival Mitt Romney, both the Democrat and Republican camps have claimed victory ahead of the crucial presidential elections set for Tuesday.
An electronic voting machine selected Republican nominee Mitt Romney even when a voter choose incumbent Barack Obama in the just concluded United States presidential poll.
Eying the about 3 million Indian-origin voters, three well-known members of the community -- actor Kalpen Modi, California Attorney General, Kamla Harris and Sai Iyer, who served as a White House intern in 2011 - have been roped in for the Obama Campaign.
As the presidential poll campaign in the United States moves towards its climax, independent surveys predict that incumbent Barack Obama holds an edge over rival Mitt Romney, but the two are locked in a virtual tie in the crucial battleground states believed to be holding the key.
Republican hopeful Mitt Romney has secured a commanding win in the Illinois presidential primary, taking him a step closer to bagging the party's nomination to challenge incumbent Barack Obama in the November presidential elections. With about one-fifth of the votes counted, Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, had garnered 54 per cent of the total votes polled, with his nearest rival Rick Santorum, the former Senator from Pennsylvania.
With just a day to go for the United States presidential elections, both contestants -- incumbent Barack Obama and his Republican rival Mitt Romney -- are leaving no stone unturned to woo the voters and were engaged in a heated exchange of words in their final leg of campaigning.
Minutes after he was projected as the winner of the closely fought 2012 US presidential election against Republican rival Mitt Romney, incumbent Barack Obama sent a letter to his supporters, thanking them profusely for standing by him.
The United States presidential election, which is just 10 days away, appears to be headed down to the wire, with opinion polls suggesting that incumbent Barack Obama's Republican rival Mitt Romney maintaining a lead over him, albeit a small one.
American millionaire businessman Mitt Romney effectively won the Republican nomination to challenge incumbent Barack Obama in the United States Presidential race after his closest challenger Rick Santorum suddenly dropped out of the contest.
Various poll surveys ahead of the November 6 United States Presidential elections have come out with mixed results, indicating a possibly close contest between incumbent Barack Obama and his Republican rival Mitt Romney.
The possibility of Republican candidate Mitt Romney winning more states, and the popular vote, and yet losing the election looms large. Rediff.com's Bikash Mohapatra reports from Ohio, one of the battleground states in America's presidential election
Republican Mitt Romney is all set to challenge incumbent Barack Obama after the party nominated the former Massachusetts governor as its candidate for the presidential elections in November this year.
Mitt Romney swept three Republican primaries in Indiana, North Carolina and West Virginia, moving closer to sealing the party nomination for November presidential polls against incumbent Barack Obama.
Rediff.com's Bikash Mohapatra reports from Ohio, one of the battleground states in America's presidential election
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's campaign team has quietly been preparing itself for the transition to presidency if he manages to defeat incumbent Barack Obama.
Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney has won the Republican primary in Florida, defeating Newt Gingrich. The victory has brought him closer to bagging the Republican nomination to challenge the incumbent, Barack Obama, in November presidential elections.
American electorate was deeply divided ideologically and exceedingly polarised in their political beliefs in the just concluded presidential election, according to an exit poll on Wednesday.
Frontrunner Mitt Romney has won the Puerto Rico's Republican presidential primary, taking him a step closer to bagging the party's nomination to challenge incumbent Barack Obama in the fall.
With 60 per cent of precincts reporting in Washington, Romney was well ahead with 37 per cent, while Ron Paul and Rick Santorum, each of whom got 24 per cent, battled for the second spot, US media reported. Newt Gingrich was a distant fourth with 11 per cent.
Two of the world's most powerful economies -- the US and China -- will see key developments on the political front.
In an op-ed in Daily Beast, former CIA officer Bruce Riedel issued a strong warning to the two candidates that Pakistan is more important foreign policy issue than Libya, the Middle East or the attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi.
Michelle Obama contemplated divorcing Barack Obama in 2000 after he ignored her advice not to run for a House seat in Chicago, making him so "depressed" that friends feared he might commit suicide, says a new book.
Former United States President Bill Clinton dubbed Barack Obama "incompetent" and pressed wife Hillary to quit her job as secretary of state to challenge the incumbent President in the primaries, a new book has claimed. "The country needs you!" the former president had told Hillary Clinton, urging her to run this year, according to accounts of the conversation included in Edward Klein's new biography of Obama.
Six Indian Americans have won the elections to the House of Representatives, increasing their number from five in the current Congress.
United States President Barack Obama has nominated two veteran diplomats to be the US ambassadors to Afghanistan and Pakistan.Almost two months after the incumbents resigned, Obama nominated James B Cunningham as the new US Ambassador to Afghanistan and Richard G Olson as the new envoy to Pakistan.
Last week 36-year-old Khanna, who has previously served in the Obama administration as one of his top ranking trade official, had announced his Congressional bid for the 2014 general elections from California against his own partyman and incumbent Mike Honda from California's 17th Congressional district as the new State laws allows two opponents from the same party to run against each other in general elections.
Nine Indian Americans are running for the US House of Representatives, which includes a re-election bid by six of them while three are making their maiden foray into Congressional politics.
United States President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney on Wednesday exchanged sharp barbs over major domestic policies ranging from economy, taxation, jobs and healthcare to education during the first of the three high-stake presidential debates.
Barack Obama's re-election campaign team has confronted Mitt Romney head-on with an advertisement campaign in six key battle ground States, challenging his claims about the incumbent United States President.
A photo finish to the White House was predicted by final United States poll surveys with rivals Barack Obama and Mitt Romney deadlocked as the gruelling 18 month campaign entered its last moments.
Presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney has asked United States President Barack Obama to "start packing", showing confidence that he would be able to defeat the incumbent in the November presidential elections.
Americans are united by their shared vision for the future of the country, Vice President Kamala Harris said on Monday, making a surprise appearance on the opening day of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
"Tonight is the beginning of the end of the disappointments of the Obama years," Romney said in his remarks after mainstream media outlets virtually declared him the presumptive Republican nominee. "I have a simple message: Hold on a little longer. A better America begins tonight," Romney said in his victory speech in Manchester, New Hampshire.
Barack Obama's maiden election campaign, back in 2008, focused on hope.
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