Washington, Sept 29 : Senator Barack Obama’s new campaign video features a ‘Bad News’ picture of a Senator John McCain victory.

According to the Washington Times, the YouTube video shows a mock MSNBC projection of Senator McCain “winning” the November 4 contest with 51 per cent, to 49 per cent vote against Obama.

“John McCain elected 44th president” and “Voter turnout lower than expected” are the mock captions with an MSNBC “Breaking News” headline under a smiling McCain.

New York, Sept. 29: Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s campaign to wrest the White House from Republican rival John McCain has gathered steam.

Over the past fortnight, the Illinois Senator has managed to narrow McCain’s lead and is now up by as many as six or seven points.

Pollsters say that’s in part because the vital independent voters are now shifting his way.

“There are still a substantial number of independents that are undecided, principally independent women,” says pollster John Zogby.

New York, Sept 27: Going by party lines, Republican Party’s presidential candidate John McCain should be strictly following his partyman and US President George Bush’s policy of attacking Pakistan to root out terrorism, but during the first presidential debate it was Democrat Barack Obama who appeared to toe Bush’s policy.

Washington, Sept 27: If one goes by a poll conducted minutes after Friday night’s debate between Republican candidate John McCain and his Democrat opponent Barack Obama last night, the former is seen garnering more uncommitted voters than the latter.

46 percent of voters surveyed said their opinion of Obama got better tonight, while 32 percent said their opinion of McCain got better, reported cbsnews. com.

London, Sept. 27 : British daily '' The Guardian '' has described the first presidential debate between Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama as probably the most confusing ever, and believes that it will take at least 72 hours to really assess its impact.

Giving its assessment of the issues taken up during the debate, the paper says that on the issue of the American economy and the current meltdown, McCain did fine on what was ostensibly Obama''s terrain.

Washington, September 27 : As many as 61 Nobel Laureates are urging Americans to vote for Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.

A small sub-group of scientists among them believes that Obama will make science education and research funding a priority, if he is elected U. S. President.