One could not avoid a virtual billboard for the Obama campaign this week, during an online session of the racing game Burnout Paradise on the XBox 360. 

The reporting of a billboard was first confirmed on Thursday to the people at GigaOM by the game's publisher who sent an email related to it on Monday. This indicates to one thing, that for the very first time, video games have been chosen by a major political campaign to advertise. 

New York, Oct. 16: Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is of the view that FOX News has cost him a few points in the polls.

In an interview with NYT reporter Matt Bai, to be published Sunday, Obama says: "I am convinced that if there were no Fox News, I might be two or three points higher in the polls."

Obama says in the article. "If I were watching Fox News, I wouldn''t vote for me, right? Because the way I''m portrayed 24/7 is as a freak!"

Washington, Oct 16 : Following the trend witnessed in the two earlier US presidential debates, more uncommitted voters favoured the former as the winner ahead of today’s third debate between Democratic candidate Barack Obama and his Republican John McCain too.

According to the findings of the poll conducted by the CBS News and Knowledge Networks, 53 percent of the uncommitted voters identified Obama as the winner of tonight''s debate, while 22 percent said Republican rival John McCain would win won. 25 percent of the voters saw the debate as a draw.

Washington - In the final television debate of the 20-month US presidential campaign, Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama Wednesday had sometimes testy exchanges over taxes and the increasingly negative tone of the final weeks before the election.

With 20 days before the November 4 general elections, the two candidates held an often fast-paced, free-wheeling debate on domestic policy at Hofstra University in New York state.

Washington, Oct. 15 : The race factor might play a significant role in who will be the 44th president of the United States when voting takes place on November 4 this year.

Though both Obama (a black) and McCain (a white) almost never talk directly about it, the topic has surfaced openly during the final weeks of the campaign.

Either way, the situation is confounding aides on both sides, who like everyone else are waiting to see what role race will play in the privacy of the voting booth.

Washington, Oct. 15 : Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has distanced himself from the low-income advocacy group ACORN, which has been under fire for allegations of voter fraud.

Obama, who rarely discusses the controversy surrounding the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, spoke to reporters about the issue in Oregon, Ohio, on Tuesday, just one day before he''s set to square off against John McCain in the final presidential debate.