London- US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama enjoys the support of large parts of the global population and is seen as preferable to his Republican rival, John McCain, a poll published by the BBC suggested Wednesday.

Backing for Obama is, not surprisingly, strongest in European countries, but otherwise ranges from just 9 per cent in India to 82 per cent in Kenya, where the 47-year-old Illinois senator was born.

Washington, Sept. 10 : Pastors or, should we say former pastors, don’t seem to gell with either the Republican camp or the rival Democratic campaign.

If Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama had a problem with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, who claimed that the 9/11 attacks were a case of “America’s chickens coming home to roost”, Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s former pastor at the Wasilla Assembly of God Church, has generated fresh controversy by saying that he sees powerful signs that the end of the world is close.

Washington, Sept. 10 : Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is now making the pitch that his Republican rival John McCain has miscalculated by focusing the discussions on who can do more to change Washington.

During a brief news conference in Ohio, Obama dismissed the polls and said the real significance is that the Republicans have decided to challenge him on his own turf.

Washington, Sept. 10 : Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is scaling down his expectations and concentrating more of his resources on winning the vote in the traditional swing states, and ultimately winning what is being predicted as a “close race” for the White House.

According to The Telegraph, the Obama campaign is targeting Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico, which are seen as key battleground states.

New York, Sept. 10 : A new CBS Poll has found that uncommitted voters could favor John McCain rather than Barack Obama

Although it is less than 2 months before the U. S. presidential election, many voters throughout the nation still remain undecided.

According to CBS, about a third of the voters were still uncommitted to either Obama or McCain one month ago, but now, they seem to have made up their minds, and settled on the Republican ticket than the Democratic one.

Washington, Sept. 10 : The McCain-Palin campaign has termed Barack Obama’s ““lipstick on a pig” comment as "offensive and disgraceful" and demanded an apology. 

The McCain campaign mobilized its new “Palin Truth Squad” Tuesday to accuse Obama of comparing Palin to a pig, and called on him to apologize.

The “Truth Squad” consists of dozens of McCain supporters.