A look at former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani's failed campaign for the US presidency.
The backing of a major liberal media establishment will undoubtedly be seen as a shot in the arm for both major party candidates as they wrestle through the nomination.
Democratic Party nominee Barack Obama, by flipping Virginia, Ohio, Iowa and New Mexico from red states in the 2004 elections to blue in this year's contest, took a commanding lead in the 2008 US Presidential Election, causing CNN to project him the winner and the 44th President of the United States of America
Even Karl Rove, the man known as George W Bush's 'Brain' and the person behind Bush's 2000 and 2004 campaign victories, predicts a win for Democratic candidate Barack Obama in the US presidential election on Tuesday.
'The choice is made easy in part by Mr McCain's disappointing campaign. It is made easy in larger part, though, because of our admiration for Mr Obama and the impressive qualities he has shown during this long race,' The Washington Post opined in its editorial.
Sonia Gandhi, chief of India's key ruling alliance member Congress party, and Ratan Tata, who heads one of the country's top business houses, have been named in a list of 100 most influential in the world by Time magazine. The list also includes international figures like Tibetan leader Dalai Lama, US President George Bush as well as three presidential aspirants Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John McCain, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
The Berman Bill H R 7081, named after Howard Berman, a Democrat strongly opposed to the deal on non-proliferation grounds and who converted only a couple of days back, was adopted with 86 voting for and 13 against. The Senate also rejected the killer amendments introduced by Democratic Senators Byron Dorgan and Jeff Bingaman to ensure that the US nuclear exports to India do not help boost New Delhi's nuclear weapons programme
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has launched a new enhanced web portal -- narendramodi.in -- which would enable the common man to interact with him.With the launch of the portal, Modi joins a league of United States politicians like Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain, who have been using the internet as a tool to reach out to their supporters, gathering donations and getting feedback on policies and programmes.
Sean McCormack, spokesman for Rice, said that the US Secretary of State would return to Stanford University, where she was a tenured professor.
'I am suspicious of the Democratic Party in the US; two, that I fear that Obama is all style and no substance; and three, that I believe his war-cry of 'change!' is no more than election rhetoric, because there is no way anybody is going to turn the battleship that is America except very, very slowly.'
Obama, the Illinois senator, has won the Wisconsin vote to pick a US Democratic presidential candidate, handing rival Hillary Clinton the ninth straight defeat on Tuesday.
Barack Obama, who is attempting to script history by being the first black President of the United States, leads his Republican rival John McCain among all registered voters by 45 per cent to 39 per cent. However, in a sign of how racially polarised US voters are, Obama draws support from 89 per cent of blacks, compared with two per cent for McCain, the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.
Senator Hillary Clinton, bidding to become the first woman president of the US, consolidated her position by winning the hard-fought Nevada caucuses edging past her Democratic rival Barack Obama
Over half of the American Whites consider presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama as a "risky" choice for the White House, whereas two-thirds believe McCain as a "safe" pick, a new survey has revealed.
In the wake of the movement in recent days with speculation rife that Prime Minister Singh is willing to go ahead with the deal even if the Left allies in the coalition withdraw their support, the Bush administration -- which some perceived was a totally unrealistic statement, but which sources said was consequent to indications from New Delhi that there would be movement on the deal from its current moribund status -- vowed to work to complete the deal.
Presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama has said that the United States should finish the fight against terror outfits Al Qaida and Taliban instead of sending troops to Iraq."We should finish the fight against Al Qaida and Taliban instead of going into Iraq. We need to take more resources and put them in Afghan - at least two additional combat brigades and US$ 1 billion in non-military assistance each year," Obama said.
Barack Obama is in the final stages of putting in place a crack team of cybernauts that will respond aggressively to rumours that the presumptive Democratic candidate for the US presidential election is "unpatriotic and a Muslim."
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The Republican senator trails Obama by only two points, or 45-47 per cent. Obama's lead falls within the survey's margin of error.
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.
But his nature, temperament, his skill to listen to others, and empathise with their pain and hardships will make him a far better president, a leader America has been longing for four years, notes Aseem Chhabra.
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.
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.
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.
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.
John McCain's top economic adviser suggests that Obama may be dragging down the greenback
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.
In a significant development in the war against militant group Islamic State, Iraqi forces have retaken control of Ramadi from the Islamic State with the United States also hailing their victory.
Obama added that Trump has shown he is "woefully unprepared to do this job" after his comments on military families as well as his handle on foreign affairs.
Polls show that Hillary's contenders are stronger than her.
Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, announced on Friday that he will not make another White House run in 2016, ending weeks of speculation over his possible bid.
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.
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.
A growing wave of lawmakers have called on the defiant US presidential nominee Donald Trump to drop out of the race in the wake of a video showing him make crude sexual remarks.
The United States is extremely disappointed on Russia giving temporary asylum to former Central Intelligence Agency contractor and national Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, adding that it is evaluating its ties with Moscow now, the White House said.
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.
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.
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