Long lines and malfunctioning machines greeted voters today as polls across the country were deluged by people wanting to cast ballots in this historic race between Barack Obama and John McCain.
Democratic candidate Barack Obama and Republican Sen. John McCain battled for the White House on Tuesday in an election that challenged attitudes about race as surely as it gauged sentiments about the battered economy and the war in Iraq.
The presidential candidates are capping a history-making campaign with a dash from Florida through a half-dozen other crucial states as John McCain tries for an upset over Barack Obama.
Barack Obama came up a big winner in the presidential race in Dixville Notch and Hart's Location, N.H., where tradition of having the first Election Day ballots tallied lives on.
The world is riveted by the election drama unfolding in the United States, inspired by the hope embodied by Barack Obama or simply relieved that - whoever wins - an administration that spawned Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay was coming to an end.
Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama have joined voters eager to cast ballots before making one last pitch for supporters to turn out for their historic presidential contest.
Election officials across the US braced for record turnout on Tuesday in a historic presidential race, hoping to avoid the long lines and malfunctioning machines that scarred previous contests for the White House.
Gov. Sarah Palin violated no ethics laws when she fired her public safety commissioner, the state personnel board concluded in a report released on Monday.
A suburban Detroit woman has decided to scare up the vote among neighbourhood children by just offering treats to John McCain supporters.
Sarah Palin has been cut loose.
U2 frontman and activist Bono says next week's presidential election provides a great opportunity to "relaunch Brand USA" amid worldwide scrutiny.
They really will do anything to get elected.
Promises and proposals from Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama:
Facts went astray on tax cuts, negative campaign advertising and oil exports when Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain engaged in their third and final presidential debate.
Republican John McCain expressed incredulity in the presidential debate on Tuesday that Democrat Barack Obama would tip off the enemy by saying publicly that he would attack al Qaeda in Pakistan under certain conditions.
A Dunedin-based American expatriate with time on his hands has found a new hobby - encouraging United States citizens to vote.
John McCain is once again trying to dress the political wound that never heals: his role in a 1980s banking scandal that is featured in a new Barack Obama attack video.
By claiming that Democrat Barack Obama is "palling around with terrorists" and doesn't see the US like other Americans, vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin targeted key goals for a faltering campaign.
Democrat Barack Obama lashed out at rival John McCain's campaign, accusing it of lying and trying to undermine his White House bid with the same tactics used to torpedo John Kerry's presidential bid four years ago.
Republican presidential candidate John McCain has tried to distance himself from President George W Bush and his own party, arguing that he has often stood against them and that he can bring change to a deeply-divided country.
