Washington, Oct 13 : With Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama taking a comfortable ten point-lead over his Republican rival John McCain as per the latest poll, he is all but set to ride the wave to the White House, as historically this kind of a lead in October has proven to be unbeatable in the past.

While there are few signs of progress for McCain in the poll, “recent history suggests that mid-October leads are vulnerable, although turning around a late double-digit deficit would be unprecedented in the modern era,” says a report in the Washington Post.

Anchorage (Alaska), Oct. 13 : An Anchorage judge has ordered Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to preserve e-mails from private accounts she has used to conduct state business.

Superior Court Judge Craig Stowers on Friday also ordered Alaska''s attorney general to recover messages from a Yahoo. com account of Palin''s that was breached by hackers last month, reports The Washington Post.

That break-in prompted Sen. John McCain''s presidential campaign to order closed at least one additional private account Palin maintained.

Washington, Oct. 13 : Barack Obama would like to offer John McCain a job if he becomes president, in what his allies says is an attempt to end the bitter partisan rancour that engulfed the White House race last week.

Both presidential rivals are working behind the scenes to calm the increasingly incendiary atmosphere on the campaign trail.

New York, Oct. 13 : September has been a great month to write about politics on the Web. The Los Angeles Times had an all-time-high 137 million page views, The Washington Post topped 320 million, and both Slate and the Huffington Post set their own traffic records. Much of the credit for driving page views goes to Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, according to the New York Times.

According to the paper, slightly more than one-third of Palin search queries drove traffic to news and media sites.

Scranton (Pennsylvania, US), Oct. 13 : Democratic vice-presidential nominee Joe Biden has said that the campaign of Republican presidential candidate John McCain has stooped to stunts and “ugly inferences” because it was losing and was out of ideas.

Rousing a crowd estimated by the police at 6,000 on an otherwise quiet day on the campaign trail, Biden said McCain’s campaign had become erratic, a reference to McCain’s changing positions on the financial crisis and his decision two weeks ago to suspend his campaign briefly to deal with it.

Washington, Oct. 13: Senator John McCain’s campaign said on Sunday that the Republican presidential nominee would not have any more proposals this week unless developments call for some.

McCain took a break Sunday from filming campaign advertisements and practicing for a final debate with Mr. Obama on Wednesday to cheer volunteers at a phone bank near his Northern Virginia headquarters.

On Saturday, his advisers were considering a range of economic ideas.