Washington, Oct 2: Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama leads his Republican rival John McCain 49 percent to 40 percent among registered voters in a new CBS News poll.
The nine-point spread marks an increase of four percentage points in Obama’s lead from a CBS News/New York Times survey taken last week. Obama also leads by nine points among likely voters, 50 percent to 41 percent.
About 1 in 4 voters remains uncommitted to either candidate - they are either undecided or favor one candidate but say they could change their mind.
Washington, Oct 1 : Republican presidential nominee John McCain reduced a complex problem of the situation in Georgia and the Caucasus to simple sloganeering when he stated, “We are all Georgians.”
The immediate implication was that Georgia is the current equivalent of Cold War Berlin. But this is not only a misreading of history and a misunderstanding of where Russia is today in its historic cultural conflict between westernization and despotism, the Washington Times said.
It is also an example of irresponsible sloganeering from someone who wants to lead the United States.
New York, Oct 1 : The failure of the House of Representatives to pass the 700 billion dollar plan to unclog the credit markets represented a colossal failure of American leadership -- not just by President Bush and the congressional leadership but also by the Republican and Democratic presidential nominees.
Washington, Sept. 30 : John McCain’s move to select Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate may have seemed brilliant to most people a month ago, especially Republicans keen to kick start their campaign to wrest the White House for another four years, but now, according to CBS, that first publicity attracting stunt is coming unstuck.
Washington, Sept 30 : The US presidential debate on foreign policy issues last Friday eliminated Republican nominee John McCain’s best chance of delivering a knockout punch to his rival Barack Obama, whose most important asset may be his capacity for self-correction.
McCain is supposed to have a command on foreign policy issues and he should have owned Friday’s debate. During their respective primary battles, McCain was a better debater than Obama, who could be hesitant, wordy and thrown off his stride, the Washington Post reports.
New York, Sep 30 : A month after Sarah Palin joined John McCain’s ticket to a burst of excitement and anticipation among Republicans, she heads into a critical debate facing challenges from conservatives about her credentials, signs that her popularity is slipping and evidence that her party is worried about how much help she will be for McCain.
Washington, Oct 2: Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama leads his Republican rival John McCain 49 percent to 40 percent among registered voters in a new CBS News poll. 
New York, Oct 1 : The failure of the House of Representatives to pass the 700 billion dollar plan to unclog the credit markets represented a colossal failure of American leadership -- not just by President Bush and the congressional leadership but also by the Republican and Democratic presidential nominees.
Washington, Sept. 30 : John McCain’s move to select Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate may have seemed brilliant to most people a month ago, especially Republicans keen to kick start their campaign to wrest the White House for another four years, but now, according to CBS, that first publicity attracting stunt is coming unstuck.
Washington, Sept 30 : The US presidential debate on foreign policy issues last Friday eliminated Republican nominee John McCain’s best chance of delivering a knockout punch to his rival Barack Obama, whose most important asset may be his capacity for self-correction.
New York, Sep 30 : A month after Sarah Palin joined John McCain’s ticket to a burst of excitement and anticipation among Republicans, she heads into a critical debate facing challenges from conservatives about her credentials, signs that her popularity is slipping and evidence that her party is worried about how much help she will be for McCain.
