And so, here we are. It's about 5am on the east coast, which means that the first polls not in Dixville Notch, NH open in just under one hour. It's been a long road, but by this time tomorrow, we should know who will be the next President of the United States - Senator John McCain of Arizona or Senator Barack Obama of Illinois ( Read more... )

 arack Obama is promising a $150bn "Apollo project" to bring jobs and energy security to the US through a new alternative energy economy, if his final push for votes brings victory in the presidential election on Tuesday.

"That's going to be my number one priority when I get into office," Mr Obama has said of his "green recovery" plans. Making his ( Read more... )

While Andrew Keen thinks that Obama may be about to sort the traffic out, Mark Steel is 'cacking himself':

I know all the commentators are saying Obama's already won but I find myself scouring the internet for reassuring polls, and there'll be an article from Nevada quoting a truck driver that's supporting McCain, and I'm like a hypochondriac that's ( Read more... )

It is the about the last, the most overblown but perhaps the most potent argument John McCain has left. Elect me, he tells voters, or watch the Democrats gain a hammerlock on Congress and plunge the country into socialism.

If Obama wins, not only would the Democratic Party control the White House, but also both houses of Congress, and by expanded ( Read more... )

Dominic Lawson writes that Democrats are worried that a tape from bin Laden is even now being conveyed to Al Jazeera, in an attempt to swing Americans behind John McCain. After all, Senator McCain is possibly even more belligerent than President Bush, while Senator Obama is the candidate who will speedily withdraw US troops from the Middle East and ( Read more... )

Al-Qa'ida supporters suggested in a website message this week they would welcome a pre-election terror attack on the US as a way to usher in a McCain presidency.

The message, posted on Monday on the password-protected al-Hesbah website, said if al-Qa'ida wants to exhaust the United States militarily and economically, "impetuous" Republican ( Read more... )

Catherine Townsend writes on her blog that she has found it difficult to stomach Sarah Palin as a role model for women:

We are facing a monumental moment in history, because the next president will almost certainly be nominating one or more Supreme Court justices and Roe vs. Wade and our reproductive freedoms lie in the balance.

The website Jezebel ( Read more... )

Writing on the Independent's blogs, Andrew Keen feels the debate marked the effective end of the election:

The Odd Couple Show is now history and the election is over. McCain and both old and new American media have lost. On 4 November the electoral soap opera will end. Rather than facing a weirdly uncomfortable 72 year-old from Phoenix, Arizona ( Read more... )

Greetings one and all, and welcome back for US Election 2008's coverage of the third and final Presidential debate of this election cycle, from the campus of Hofstra University in Long Island, NY. This week, a confident Barack Obama leads in the national polls, but John McCain reckons he's got them right where he wants them. Only the next 3 weeks ( Read more... )

Leonard Doyle writes that Virginia has been faithfully in the Republican column in every presidential election for the past 44 years. The state's large military population and a wider community of veterans and family members could always be relied on. However, judging by a series of interviews with serving and former members of the Marines over the ( Read more... )