Washington, October 31 : Two Kent State University sociology professors have likened U. S. presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s debating style to the technique boxing legend Muhammed Ali relied on during his matches.

Drs. Will Kalkhoff and Stanford W. Gregory Jr. say that Obama demonstrates a “rope-a-dope” debating style, which is similar to the way Ali would hang back during the beginning of a fight until his opponent exhausted himself, and then would dominate the end of the match, winning most of his contests with this style.

Wednesday night’s 11:00 p.m. half-hour campaign ad special on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show With Jon Stewart featuring Democratic presidential candidate – Barack Obama, pulled in its biggest audience averaging 3.6-million viewers, managed to beat its own 8th October record by 600,000 viewers, when Michelle Obama appeared on the show.  

With appearances scheduled in eight key states, an optimistic Obama embarks on the final stretch of his presidential campaign, much buoyed by a half-hour prime-time television advertisement campaign 26-million Americans watched and after receiving an impressive endorsement from former president Bill Clinton.

London, Oct 31: Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama’s senior advisers have drawn up plans to lower expectations for his presidency if he wins next week’s election, amid concerns that many of his supporters are harbouring unrealistic hopes of what he can achieve.

The sudden financial crisis and the prospect of a deep and painful recession have increased the urgency inside the Obama team to bring people down to earth, after a campaign in which his soaring rhetoric and promises of hope and change are now confronted with the reality of a stricken economy.

Washington, Oct 31: Republican presidential hopeful John McCain’s supporters are hoping for a “Bradley effect” bounce on the Election Day, but some pollsters and strategists say they may have another thing coming that is: Bandwagon effect.

Washington, Oct 31: Barack Obama is expected to do a turbocharged transition if he wins, with a Treasury secretary and White House chief of staff named days after his election, Democratic Party sources have said.

“They would like to make Treasury the first appointment as a symbol and have the other big ones done in the first week,” the Daily News quoted a source close to the Obama transition team, as saying.