Daily Kos/Research 2000's Obama vs McCain poll, conducted from October 19 to October 21, shows Obama leading McCain by 8 % points — 50 % to 42 % among the likely voters nationally.

Reuters/CSPAN/Zogby's Obama vs McCain poll, conducted from October 19 to October 21, shows Obama leading McCain by 10 % points — 52 % to 42 % among the likely voters nationally.

Investors Business Daily/TIPP's Obama vs McCain poll, conducted from October 18 to October 22, shows Obama leading McCain by 1 % — 45 % to 44 % among the likely voters nationally.

According to White House spokeswoman, Dana Perino, the reigning first couple of the country, President Bush and Mrs. Bush, cast their ballots Friday for the 2008 election, using Texas’ early voting process. In the three elections, Bush voted in Crawford, Texas, where he owns a 1,600 acre ranch.

Saying that the President and his wife, Laura, would be at the White House for election night, Perino said the ballots will be mailed back to Texas.

The reporters, of course, are leaving no stone unturned to know which of the two presidential candidates – Republican McCain and Democratic Obama – got the present President’s vote.

In a unique way to rally support for Barack Obama, the actor-turned-director Ron Howard reprises his role on “The Andy Griffith Show,” in a video posted Thursday on Funnyordie.com.

The Web video features iconic North Carolina actor Andy Griffith praising Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

Griffith, a resident of Manteo, N.C., has made numerous ads for Democratic candidates, but the video is his first endorsement in a national race, and the only one he has done in character as Mayberry’s Sheriff Taylor.

A complaint has been filed with the Federal Election Commission, by a watchdog group, against Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, the Republican National Committee, Larson and other political operatives associated with the RNC, alleging that the Republican Party improperly spent $150,000 on clothing for Palin and her family.

According to the campaigns finance report for September, Jeff Larson, a Minnesota-based Republican consultant, made most or all of the purchases at high-end chain stores in Minneapolis.  

If the beginning of this week had the former Secretary of State, Colin L. Powell, announcing his endorsement of Obama, the end of the week has former White House Press Secretary, Scott McClellan, going Obama’s way too.

The accomplished Bush loyalist no more who has an uncanny knack for dropping bombshells, did it this time around with his tell-all book about life and lies in President Bush’s inner circle. The book has McClellan bashing his former bosses in the Bush administration.

McClellan’s declaration of Obama endorsement, taped for a new weekend CNN show, “D.L. Hughley Breaks the News,” comes through his dramatic statement that he has a favorite in the presidential election, and “it is not John McCain.”

The full body of Central Election Commission (CEC) will visit Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh today to review the arrangements for assembly polls there.