WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 (Xinhua) -- The two U.S.
presidential candidates intensified competition in their respective battleground
states as the elections drawing to an end, ABC News reported Saturday.
Democrat nominee Barack Obama, who is leading in the
polls, campaigned to secure victories in traditionally Republican states Nevada,
Colorado and Missouri on Saturday.
U.S. Democratic presidential nominee
Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) gestures that there are four days left until
the U.S. presidential election at a rally in Gary, Indiana, Oct. 31,
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Then, in the campaign's final two days, he will
attempt to seal the deal in large battleground states -- Ohio, Florida, North
Carolina and Virginia.
"We are three days away from changing the United
States of America," Obama told voters Saturday in Nevada.
Republican John McCain, meanwhile, spent Saturday in
Virginia and then travel to Pennsylvania -- a state billed, despite an
apparently sizeable Obama lead, as a must-win for the GOP ticket.
The candidates' running mates are joining the sprint
with heavily freighted weekend schedules of their own.
Obama's running mate Joe Biden, will spend Saturday
and Sunday in Indiana, Ohio and Florida, while Republican vice presidential
candidate Sarah Palin was scheduled to target Florida, North Carolina, Virginia
and Ohio.
McCain may be down in the polls, but neither his
aggressive schedule nor the tone of his stump speeches admits any hint of
defeat.
At a Saturday morning rally in the Virginia city of
Newport News, where the latest CNN-Time poll has Obama ahead 53-44, McCain
predicted a win, telling voters that the polls were swinging in his favor.
McCain will cap off the weekend in New Hampshire.
While Obama is polling ahead in this state, it delivered McCain victories in
both 2000 and 2008 primaries.
Last Friday's ABC News tracking poll had Obama with a
nine-point lead over McCain.
Despite the polls and last-minute endorsements, Obama
was taking nothing for granted and urging voters to continue to fight.
"We can't afford to slow down, or sit back, or let up
for one day, one minute or one second in this last week. Not now. Not when so
much is at stake. We have to go ahead and bring it home. We have got to go win
this election," Obama said.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 (Xinhua) -- Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama's home city of
Chicago is beefing up security before election night on Nov.
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 31
(Xinhua) -- U.S. Republican presidential nominee John McCain got much more
negative news coverage than his Democratic opponent Barack Obama, according to a
new study by Center for Media and Public Affairs (CMPA).
Since the general election campaign started in June,
comments about Obama on the network evening news shows have been 65 percent
positive, compared to only 36 percent positive comments about McCain, according
to the study, which was released Friday. Full story
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama didn't know his aunt might be living illegally in the United States, his campaign said Saturday.
"Senator Obama has no knowledge of her status but obviously believes that any and all appropriate laws (should) be followed," campaign spokesman Bill Burton told reporters. Full story
DAR ES SALAAM, Nov.1 (Xinhua) -- A local newspaper on Saturday reported that United States presidential candidate Barack Obama has Tanzanian blood flowing in him as well.
The Weekend African newspaper said in a bylined frontpage story that Obama's grandmother on his father's side had hailed from the Kowak Village in Tarime in Tanzania's Mara Region which borders southwestern Kenya. Full story
