New York, Nov 5: The financial crisis in the United States was main concern of the voters which led to the defeat of Senator John McCain in the race for the White House.
“I mean, just look at the figures. We have been put in the middle of a dire economic downturn, and we need change,” the Washington Post quoted Jackie Barnard, 62, of the mostly Republican bastion of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, as saying.
Preliminary poll data showed the economy was the paramount concern of 62 percent, or nearly two-thirds, of voters.
London, Nov 7: Unknown foreign entity or organisation sought to gather information on policy issues of US presidential elect Barack Obama and his Republican rival John McCain by hacking their computer systems, Newsweek magazine has said.
Republican John McCain has accepted the victory of Dem
Washington Washington, Nov. 5 : Barack Obama, who will be the nation’s first African-American president, won the largest share of white support of any Democrat in a two-man race since 1976 amid a backdrop of economic anxiety unseen in at least a quarter-century, according to exit polls by The Associated Press and the major television networks.
Washington - Republican John McCain never had much of a chance to defeat Democrat Barack Obama.
Hanoi - The former warden of the "Hanoi Hilton," the prison where John McCain was held as a POW during the Vietnam War, expressed his condolences Wednesday morning for his former captive's loss in the US presidential elections.
