Washington, Oct 25 : American voters have a heady sense of historic occasion, a phenomenon that favors Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

He would be the nation’s first Black president, and many people want to be a part of the momentum. A record turnout is expected, the Washington Times has said.

“This is indeed a historic election of epic proportions. It looms large on the Richter scale of history, so to speak,” said Bruce Buchanan, a presidential historian at the University of Texas at Austin.

“The maltreatment of African Americans has been the great stain on the American experiment and has been at the heart of our politics since the beginning,” Buchanan said.

Washington, Oct 25 : President George W Bush and first lady Laura Bush on Friday cast their votes for Republican candidate John McCain in the 2008 presidential election, filling out an early voting ballot that will be sent by mail back to Texas.

“Today the President and Mrs. Bush cast their ballots for the 2008 election during the early voting process,” said White House press secretary Dana Perino.

“The ballots will be mailed back to Texas today. They plan to be here at the White House on election night,” she said.

Washington, Oct 25 : Republican presidential nominee John McCain has turned to an argument that has served his party well in recent history, using stump speeches and television ads to drive home the idea that his rival Barack Obama would raise taxes on average Americans.

But for the first time in decades, Democrats appear to have the upper hand in the debate over taxes.

Washington, October 25 : The world’s oldest cooked cereal, enjoyed by European diners about 8,000 years ago, was prepared instantly just by soaking it in hot water.

The researchers behind this finding have revealed that the ancient cereal, dating from between 5920 to 5730 B. C., consisted of parboiled bulgur wheat that Early Neolithic Bulgarians could refresh in minutes with hot water.

"People boiled the grain, dried it, removed the bran and ground it into coarse particles," Discovery News quoted lead author Soultana-Maria Valamoti, an assistant professor of archaeology at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece, as saying.

Washington, Oct 25 : Republican presidential candidate John McCain has lost the advertisement and earned media war, and it is too late to win the skies back, but the only hope now is for his campaign to win the war on the ground.

Advertisements and earned media are what make an air war, and the air war is what drives the ground game. Trouble is that there has been a complete lack of message discipline at the McCain campaign.

Now it is entirely up to McCain’s field troops to deliver victory, FOX News reported.

Pittsburgh, Oct 25 : A woman who lied about being attacked because of the McCain bumper sticker on her car will face charges of filing a false report.

Police now have the answer to the most important question behind a 20-year-old McCain campaign volunteer’s claim that she was attacked by a robber who carved a “B” into her cheek when he saw a McCain bumper sticker on her car.

It was a hoax, FOX News reported.