John McCain

Losing Republican presidential candidate and Arizona Senator John McCain has revealed that he is ready to help President-elect Barack Obama fix America up.

McCain is said to have conveyed this message to Obama when the two of them met here on Monday afternoon to discuss ways to work together in the future.

Both met in Obama''s transition headquarters in Chicago and were assisted by Rahm Emanuel, Obama''s incoming White House chief of staff, and South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, McCain''s close friend, Fox News reports.

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.

The Telegraph quoted the magazine as saying that a federal investigation was opened after both the campaigns were victims of a sophisticated cyber attack.

Senator John McCain, who lost to Democrat Barack Obama in US presidential race, will be returning to Congress and continue to reach across the Senate to remain a powerful voice for the Republican Party, strategists and experts have said.

“John is someone who has always served his country and he has his entire adult life, and I anticipate that after some time off, well deserved, and some time with his family, well deserved, he’ll be back in Washington, rolling up his sleeves and getting back to work,” John Weaver, McCain’s former top campaign strategist, told said.

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.

Having already secured New Hampshire, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, continues to maintain a clear advantage over Republican rival John McCain, even as both made final appeals in battleground states in advance of Tuesday''s balloting.

The Washington Post-ABC News tracking poll showed Obama leading by nine percentage points -- 53 percent to 44 percent. That is slightly narrower than the 11-point lead Obama held the day before, but in general, Obama''s lead has held steady for the past several weeks.

Despite lagging behind his Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama in opinion polls, Republican candidate John McCain has said that he was still confident of his victory in today’s presidential poll.

He predicted his victory at a rally of about 5000 supporters in GOP-friendly northeastern Tennessee.

Above cell phone cameras on upraised hands and children perched on parents'' shoulders, the crowd waved signs saying, “Support our troops," ''''Save Our Coal" and "Remember Sept. 11 — vote security."

With less than 48 hours to go before American voters decide on who their 44th President will be, the Indian American community appears to have already decided that the United States is ready to have its first Afro-American head of state.

In their view, Illinois Senator Barack Obama is on all counts, a transformational candidate, a man who has the potential to lead the country, a candidate who will bring fresh energy to the White House and to the administration in Washington.

With less than 48 hours to go for Election Day, both John McCain and Barack Obama''s campaigns are trying to motivate voters to come out and vote on Tuesday.

According to FOX News, both camps are positioning themselves for a long night on Tuesday and do expect the closing stages of the race to be tight, as there is a potential for fraudulent voter registration.

The latest Investor''s Business Daily-TechnoMetrica poll out Sunday showed the race with just a 2-point spread, with Obama at 46.7 percent, McCain with 44.6 percent and 8.7 percent of the 844 likely voters still undecided.

While Barack Obama and John McCain battle against each other in the run for the White House seat, a University of Missouri professor has claimed that the television ads for 2008 presidential campaign have been one of the most negative in history.

Based on candidates'' television spots along with the latest 30-minute ad by Obama, William Benoit, professor of communication in the College of Arts and Science, found that only one other campaign matched this level of negativity.

Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama told supporters to expect rival John McCain’s campaign to end in a crescendo of attacks on him.

“More of the slash and burn, say-anything, do-anything politics that’s calculated to divide and distract; to tear us apart instead of bringing us together,” Obama told 25,000 in Des Moines, Iowa.

The Illinois senator said he admired a presidential candidate who said in 2000, “I will not take the low road to the highest office in this land.”