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We will update the result state by state as they will be announced. There are 270 votes for any candidate to win the election out of 538 electoral votes.

MCcain (Republican) - 155 Electoral votes

Obama (Democrats) - 338 Electoral votes

MCcain (Republican) - 48%

Obama (Democrats) - 51%

Kentuky - (Mccain) Republican won - Total electoral votes 8.

Vermont- (Obama) Democrat won - Total electoral votes 3.

Georgia - (Mccain) Republican won - Total electoral votes 15.

Ohio - (Obama) Democrat won - Total electoral votes 20.

Viginia - (Mccain) Republican won - Total electoral votes 13.

Indiana - (Mccain) Republican won - Total electoral votes 11.

West Virginia - (Mccain) Republican won - Total electoral votes 5.

South Carolina - (Obama) Democrat won - Total electoral votes 8.

North Carolina - (Obama) Democrat won - Total electoral votes 15.

Oklahoma - (Mccain) Republican won - Total electoral votes 7.

Mississippi - (Mccain) Republican won - Total electoral votes 6.

Alabama - (Obama) Democrat won - Total electoral votes 9.

Georgea - (Mccain) Republican won - Total electoral votes 15.

Florida - (Obama) Democrat won - Total electoral votes 27.

Pensylvania - (Mccain) Republican won - Total electoral votes 21.

Maine - (Obama) Democrat won - Total electoral votes 4.

New hampshire - (Obama) Democrat won - Total electoral votes 4.

Massachussets - (Obama) Democrat won - Total electoral votes 12.

Connecticut - (Obama) Democrat won - Total electoral votes 7.

North Dacota - (Mccain) Republican won - Total electoral votes 3.

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The presidential election is going on in USA and voters have casted the votes to decide the most powerful man on the earth. The election is in USA while the whole world is keenly observing the developments in USA. In a true sense the world fate lies in the hand of next USA president, the most influential person on the earth.

Right now the whole world is facing financial and social crisis and needs careful planning to put it back to the right path. If Obama will be the winner then the new policies and changes can be seen while MCcain will continue the Bush admin strategies. The past 8 years were horrible for the world, it was seen the issues like terrorism and financial matters were handled wrongly. The world was imbalance due to the previous policies, in  one hand USA took strict measures against the Muslim countries by accusing them through lame excuses of threats and nuclear proliferation.

USA was seen trying hard to make its grip stronger in middle east, asia and central asian regions, due to which the world had witness the scenes of Iraq war, china Taiwan tension, Afghan war, Russian invasion in Georgia etc. Now a time comes for table talk, all the matter should be solved through negotiations otherwise the world will go in deep trouble. We hope the new president of USA will formulate the policies which will put the globe in a peaceful atmosphere.

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The federal agencies of USA have broken up a plot by two neo-Nazi skinheads to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and shoot or injure black people, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives said Monday.

In court records unsealed Monday in U.S. District Court in Jackson, Tenn., federal agents said they disrupted plans to rob a gun store and target a predominantly African-American high school in a murder spree that was to begin in Tennessee. Agents said the skinheads did not identify the school by name.

Jim Cavanaugh, special agent in charge of ATF’s Nashville field office, said the two men planned to kill 88 people, including 14 African-Americans by beheading. The numbers 88 and 14 are symbolic in the white supremacist community.

The men also sought to go on a national killing spree after the Tennessee murders, with Obama as its final target, Cavanaugh told The Associated Press.

“They said that would be their last, final act _ that they would attempt to kill Sen. Obama,” Cavanaugh said. “They didn’t believe they would be able to do it, but that they would get killed trying.”

An Obama spokeswoman traveling with the senator in Pennsylvania had no immediate comment.

The men, Daniel Cowart, 20, of Bells, Tenn., and Paul Schlesselman 18, of Helena-West Helena, Ark., are being held without bond. Agents seized a rifle, a sawed-off shotgun and three pistols from the men when they were arrested. Authorities alleged the two men were preparing to break into a gun shop to steal more.

The two men were arrested Oct. 22 by the Crockett County, Tenn., Sheriff’s Office. “Once we arrested the defendants and suspected they had violated federal law, we immediately contacted federal authorities,” said Crockett County Sheriff Troy Klyce.

Attorney Joe Byrd, who has been hired to represent Cowart, did not immediately return a call seeking comment Monday. Messages left on two phone numbers listed under Cowart’s name were not immediately returned.

No telephone number for Schlesselman in Helena-West Helena could be found immediately.

Cowart and Schlesselman are charged with possessing an unregistered firearm, conspiring to steal firearms from a federally licensed gun dealer, and threatening a candidate for president.

The investigation is continuing, and more charges are possible, Cavanaugh said.

The court records say Cowart and Schlesselman also bought nylon rope and ski masks to use in a robbery or home invasion to fund their spree, during which they allegedly planned to go from state to state and kill people.

For the Obama plot, the legal documents show, Cowart and Schlesselman “planned to drive their vehicle as fast as they could toward Obama shooting at him from the windows.”

“Both individuals stated they would dress in all white tuxedos and wear top hats during the assassination attempt,” the court complaint states. “Both individuals further stated they knew they would and were willing to die during this attempt.”

Cavanaugh said there’s no evidence _ so far _ that others were willing to assist Cowart and Schlesselman with the plot.

He said authorities took the threats very seriously.

“They seemed determined to do it,” Cavanaugh said. “Even if they were just to try it, it would be a trail of tears around the South.”

The court documents say the two men met about a month ago on the Internet and found common ground in their shared “white power” and “skinhead” philosophy.

The numbers 14 and 88 are symbols in skinhead culture, referring to a 14-word phrase attributed to an imprisoned white supremacist: “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children” and to the eighth letter of the alphabet, H. Two “8″s or “H”s stand for “Heil Hitler.”

Helena-West Helena, on the Mississippi River in east Arkansas’ Delta, is in one of the nation’s poorest regions, trailing even parts of Appalachia in its standard of living. Police Chief Fred Fielder said he had never heard of Schlesselman.

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Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama has cited a 1981 visit to Pakistan while he was a college student in a bid to counter rivals’ accusations that he lacks foreign policy experience.

He spoke of his trip to Pakistan while speaking to supporters at a fund-raiser in San Francisco on Sunday night, according to a dispatch in The New York Times on Thursday.

Senator Obama, an African-American, also made reference to his ties to relatives in poor villages in Kenya and the years he spent growing up in Indonesia, and says he has real-life experience of foreign countries.

In 1981, Obama visited his mother and sister Maya in Indonesia and then travelled to Pakistan. According to Obama, he was in Karachi for about three weeks and then visited Hyderabad in India.

In Karachi, he stayed with the family of a college friend, Muhammad Hasan Chandoo.

Chandoo is now a self-employed financial consultant, living in Armonk in Westchester County, New York. When contacted, Chandoo said that he would not comment about his relations with his “friend”.

According to The Times, he has donated the maximum, $2,300, to Obama’s primary campaign and an additional $309 for the general elections.

During the speech, Obama said that because of his trip to Pakistan, “I knew what Sunni and Shia was, before I joined the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.” During his years at Occidental College, Obama also befriended Wahid Hamid, a fellow student who was an immigrant from Pakistan and travelled with Obama there, the Obama campaign said.

Hamid is now a vice president at PepsiCo in New York, and according to public records, has donated the maximum $2,300 to the Obama campaign and is listed as a campaign fundraiser. Hamid was not available for comment as he is travelling abroad, his office said.

With the war in Iraq and extremism among the top issues in the campaign, all three of the presidential contenders have sought to emphasise the value of their very different foreign policy credentials.

Source daily Times

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Colin Powell the ex secretary state of US has announced his support for Obama in a coming US elections. According to him the African American president will be the history of US and the americans should be proud of that moment. News of his appearance on the flagship Meet The Press show this weekend sparked the latest flurry of rumours that the long-time Republican and friend of John McCain is planning to offer his backing to Mr Obama in his campaign to become the first African-America to win the White House.

A friend and ex-aide said that Gen Powell was extremely “upset” by the “vitriol, bile and prejudice” aimed at Mr Obama on the campaign trail.

Col Wilkerson said he did not know whether his old boss was planning to throw his weight behind Mr Obama - a move that could undermine Mr McCain’s efforts to regain ground in the battle for the presidency.

But he did offer an insight into Gen Powell’s thought process that could make an endorsement more likely just 16 days before the election and with the third and final presidential debate behind the candidates.

“He likes to make his decisions at the 60 per cent point in terms of information and timing. Most people make a decision too quickly or too late, on the basis of too little information or having waited for all the information they are a day late and a dollar short.

He believes the optimum point is 60 per cent for both” It might be argued that with just over two weeks to go before the election and with Mr Obama clearly ahead in the polls but still far from certain to win, the “60 per cent point” has also been reached in this election.

Nonetheless, Col Wilkerson also described Gen Powell as “a loyal soldier who owes a lot to some people in the Republican party” - a factor that could mitigate against an endorsement by a man not prone to gesture politics.

General Powell endoresement to Obama will help in deciding for those voters who have not decided yet.

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Barack Obama and John McCain clashed repeatedly over the causes and cures for the worst economic crisis in 80 years Tuesday night in a debate in which Republican McCain called for sweeping action by the government to directly shield many homeowners from mortgage foreclosure.

“It’s my proposal. It’s not Sen. Obama’s proposal, it’s not President Bush’s proposal,” McCain said in the debate that he hoped could revive his fortunes in a presidential race trending toward his rival.

That came after McCain accused him of foolishly threatening to invade Pakistan and said, “I’m not going to telegraph my punches, which is what Sen. Obama did.”

The debate was the second of three between the two major party rivals, and the only one to feature a format in which voters seated a few feet away posed questions to the candidates.

They were polite, but the strain of the campaign showed. At one point, McCain referred to Obama as “that one,” rather than speaking his name.

“It’s good to be with you at a town hall meeting,” McCain also jabbed at his rival, who has spurned the Republican’s calls for numerous such joint appearances across the fall campaign.

They debated on a stage at Belmont University four weeks before Election Day in a race that has lately favored Obama, both in national polls and in surveys in pivotal battleground states.

Not surprisingly, many of the questions dealt with an economy in trouble.

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USA Barack Obama al Gore announced his endorsement of  Monday and promised to help the Democrat achieve what eluded him the presidency. I present to you the next president of the United States Barack Obama! Gore said in a brief introduction of Obama at a Detroit fundraiser. He planned a later appearance with Obama at a 20,000-person rally at the Joe Louis Arena. In a letter to be E mailed to Obama supporters the former vice president and Nobel Prize winner wrote from now through Election Day I intend to do whatever I can to make sure he is elected president of the United States. In 2000 Gore won the popular vote but lost the disputed election to George W. Bush who captured Florida and its electoral votes after a divided Supreme Court ended the recount of ballots. Since then Gore has made combatting global warming his signature issue and has been recognized worldwide for his effort from an Academy Award to the Nobel prize. Gore is one of the most popular figures in the Democratic Party but he maintained a low profile in the primary campaign. It is the second time that Obama has rolled out a major endorsement in Michigan a state he did not campaign in during the primary because its election violated the party rules. Obama is counting on a win in Michigan in Nov.. but brought Gore and 2004 vice presidential nominee John Edwards to help validate him among Democrats in the state after skipping their primary. It means a lot obviously Obama said of Gores support as he greeted workers outside the General Motors Flint Engine South plant. He is somebody who is a visionary not just for the party but for the country. Gore also asked for donations to help fund Obamas effort the 1^st time he is asked members of his Web site AlGore.com to contribute to a political campaign over the past 18 months Barack Obama has united a movement. He knows change does not come from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue or Capitol Hill. It begins when people stand up and take action Gore wrote with the help of millions of supporters like you Barack Obama will bring the change we so desperately need in order to solve our countrys most pressing problems. Obama focused on his plan to improve the economy while in Michigan which has the nations highest unemployment rate. He told a crowd in flint which had a seasonally unadjusted April nemployment rate of 9.3 percent that they cannot fear globalization but must embrace it as a reality of the future. At critical moments of transition like this one success has also depended on national leadership that moved the country forward with confidence and a common purpose.

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Now Obama is hunting for votes out West, Democrat on Saturday rejected the idea that the region’s sparsely populated states aren’t important in the race and renewed his promise to appoint a high-level adviser on Indian issues if elected.

Obama also cast his usual message in more Western-friendly terms, talking about clean-coal technology as a way of protecting Montana’s beautiful mountains and civil liberties as part of the state’s tradition of independence.

An Obama supporter had scolded all the presidential candidates earlier for not addressing Western issues.

Montana and neighboring states have only a handful    of delegates, but every one of them is valuable as Obama seeks to keep Hillary Rodham Clinton from narrowing his lead heading toward the nomination convention.

Obama, speaking at the Montana Democrats’ annual Mansfield-Metcalf Dinner, mocked the suggestion from Clinton’s campaign earlier this year that his lead is suspect because he won lightly contested small states that hold caucuses while losing some big states with primary elections.

“There are people saying Obama wins all these little states, all these caucus states, these small little Western states. I don’t know about you, but I think they’re pretty important,” Obama told the crowd of 4,000.

And in a state where more than 6 percent of the population is American Indian, Obama talked about improving health and education for Indians. He promised to appoint a senior White House adviser on the subject and host an annual meeting of tribal leaders.

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Barack Obama hit back at rival Hillary Clinton on Saturday before a Wisconsin showdown next Tuesday in their Democratic presidential battle, as Clinton headed to the state for the first time.

Obama, a first-term Illinois senator, has beaten Clinton in the last eight state contests to gain the upper hand in their duel to become the Democratic presidential nominee in November’s election.

Obama has spent four days in Wisconsin since his last round of victories last Tuesday, while Clinton has focused on March 4 votes in Ohio and Texas hoping victories there will rejuvenate her flagging campaign.

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ABC News’ Teddy Davis Reports: For the second presidential debate in a row, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., came under fire for an Aug. 1 speech in which he said he would go after high-value Al Qaeda targets in Pakistan if the country’s president was not willing to act.

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“You can think big but remember you shouldn’t always say everything you think when you’re running for president because it could have consequences across the world and we don’t need that right now,” said Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y.

Clinton’s criticism of Obama, which was echoed at Tuesday’s Democratic forum by Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., and added to by Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., came two days after the Illinois Democrat was hammered for his policy towards Pakistan by former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney at a GOP debate sponsored by ABC News.

Obama, who had the bulk of the Chicago crowd with him during the tense exchange, fired back at Clinton and Dodd by contrasting his early opposition to the Iraq war with the pro-war votes cast by his Democratic rivals in 2002.

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