New York, Sep 6 : Republican presidential candidate John McCain attracted a record 38.9 million television viewers to his acceptance speech last night, edging Democratic rival Barack Obama and his running mate, Sarah Palin.

The total exceeded the 38.4 million who watched Obama accept the Democratic nomination in Denver on August 28, Nielsen Media Research said today in a statement.

New York, Sep 5 : Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama will increasingly lean on prominent party women leaders to undercut Republican rival John McCain and his running mate Sarah Palin.

The Obama campaign is dispatching Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to Florida on Monday and is creating a rapid-response team to deploy female surrogates to battleground states, The New York Times reported.

Washington, Sept. 5: Alaska Governor and Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin almost managed to overhaul Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama in terms of attracting the number of television viewers to hear her acceptance speech on Wednesday night at the party’s convention in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Palin drew 37 million viewers, just 1.1 million viewers shy of Obama’s record-breaking speech in Denver on August 28, according to recent Nielsen Media Research ratings.

New York, Sept. 5 : The presidential race between Senators’Barack Obama and John McCain is now even at 42 percent, according to a new CBS News poll conducted Monday-Wednesday of this week.

According to the poll, twelve percent are undecided and one percent said they wouldn''t vote.

This is in contrast to a poll conducted last weekend, where the Obama-Biden ticket led McCain-Palin by eight points, 48 percent to 40 percent.

McCain has also closed the enthusiasm gap some with Obama, but it still exists.

Washington, Sept. 5 : Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama has given a stinging reminder to his Republican opponents to concentrate on delivering on their promises to the American people, rather than focusing their attention on his “perceived” shortcomings.

Responding to Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s charge that he was seeking to turn the clock back, CBS quoted Obama as saying: "You''re hearing an awful lot about me, most of which is not true."What you''re not hearing about is you."

Washington, Sept. 5: Barack Obama’s vice-presidential running mate, Joe Biden, has indicated that a new Democratic administration could pursue criminal charges against the Bush administration over the treatment of detainees in Guantanamo bay.