With only a few weeks until Election Day, Barack Obama is basking in the glow of his post-debate success and his lead in most polls, but the candidate remains cautious. Dean Reynolds reports.
Part1 Part2 America's top pollster discusses the impact of race, the economy and Sarah Palin on the US presidential election and explains why he thinks the US is moving beyond its traditional divides to form a national consensus.
While voter registration for the US presidential election ended on Monday, Republicans and Democrats across the country are still trying to sign up as many new voters as possible. Al Jazeera's Clayton Swisher reports from Ohio, a key battleground state, where nearly 700,000 new voters have been signed up since December 2007.
Opinion polls in the U.S. distort the truth about public opinion. They cover up the truth about the number of undecided voters and distort the perception of which policies people support. Thats according to David Moore former senior editor of Gallup Poll, a world renowned polling agency.
New polls show Barack Obama has a nine-point lead over John McCain. Meanwhile, Congress scores its lowest approval rating since CBS started asking in 1977. Nancy Cordes reports.
Democrat Barack Obama has broken out into a seven-point lead over Republican John McCain one month before the election, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll.
A new poll shows race will be a factor for a large number of voters this November. BET's Ed Gordon talks about the effect of the "Black Tax" on Sen. Barack Obama's strategy with Maggie Ro...
Barack Obama has been cautious to poise himself as an African American candidate. But, as Dean Reynolds reports, the racial stigmas of both conservatives and liberals could detriment his campaign.
Deep-seated racial misgivings could cost Barack Obama the White House if the election is close, according to an AP-Yahoo News poll, conducted in conjunction with Stanford University.
In Israel, Ehud Olmert, the prime minister, has been speaking of the need for a peace agreement with the Palestinians by the end of the year. But he is due to step down as prime minister as his Kadima party prepares for a leadership vote on Wednesday. The Palestinians main fear is that whoever wins will maintain the status quo: a military occupation consisting of checkpoints, walls, and settlement expansion. Al Jazeera's Nour Odeh reports.
Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama's long-standing lead in the race to the White House has disappeared. New polls are putting Republican nominee Senator John McCain statistically even with Obama, and in some surveys, ahead. The shift occurred after McCain picked for his vice presidential nominee a newcomer to national politics, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. V-O-A's Jeffrey Young has details.
In a sharp turnaround, John McCain has opened a 5-point lead on Barack Obama in the latest Reuters/Zogby poll.McCain now leads Obama among likely U.S. voters by 46 percent to 41 percent, wiping out Obama's solid 7-point advantage in July.... a 12-point swing.