New York, Aug 26: Republican presidential nominee John McCain may announce his choice for a running mate earlier than expected.

McCain had previously said he would announce his vice presidential pick on Friday and would appear with that individual at a rally in Dayton, Ohio, following the announcement.

But sources close to McCain’s campaign told FOX News that his decision may come sooner than that - possibly on Thursday, when Barack Obama accepts the Democratic nomination at Invesco field in Denver, Colo.

McCain campaign spokesman Tucker Bounds diminished the news.

London, Aug 26: Democrat Barack Obama will lose the November US presidential election to John McCain unless he overhauls his message of change, outlines specific plans and reassures Americans that he is one of them, according to swing voters in Denver.

The results of a focus group held by Frank Luntz, the leading American pollster, on the eve of the Democratic convention should sound alarm bells for the Obama campaign after a month in which McCain, has drawn level in the polls.

New York, Aug 25 : The organizer of Vietnam Veterans Against John McCain claims that Senator John McCain, the Purple Heart-winning former POW, has never admitted the full extent to which he cooperated with his captors.

Green Beret Ted Sampley, who helped Democrat John Kerry in the 2004 presidential race, charges that in the 1990s McCain ignored "credible evidence" that American POWs were still alive in Southeast Asia.

The New York Daily News while quoting Sampley said, "He wanted to normalize relations with Vietnam."

Denver, Colorado - The scramble for the White House was dead even between Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain, according to two separate polls released late Sunday, the eve of the opening of the Democratic nominating convention.

The Gallup Poll showed each candidate with 45 per cent support from registered voters, while a CNN/Opinion Research Corp poll showed a 47-per-cent stalemate.

Washington, Aug 25: Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s aides have said that they intend to use Democrat rival Barack Obama’s running mate against him, to make the presidential contest a two-against-one fight.

They added that with Obama on one side and Joseph Biden and McCain together on the other, not just on Iraq but on the North American Free Trade Agreement, which Biden voted for, and the 2005 Republican Energy Bill, which Biden and McCain voted against.

Denver, Colorado - Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama and his Republican rival John McCain are head to head in the run for the White House, a new poll said Monday.

According to CNN both candidates can count on 47 per cent voter support, the news channel said a few hours before the Democrats kick off their presidential convention in Denver.

One month ago, Obama was comfortably ahead by 7 per cent.