October 25, 2008	Saturday	Shawwal 25, 1429

NEW YORK, Oct 24: With less than two weeks to US presidential elections the buzz in the mainstream media is that Democratic nominee for the president of the United States Barack Obama would win the elections handily, perhaps in a landslide.

In what is the sign of times a new Republican ad appears to suggest that Barack Obama has all but won the presidential race, an argument several vulnerable Senate Republicans may have to reluctantly embrace with only days until election day, an expert in campaign advertisement said.

With the latest polls warning of a GOP bloodbath on Nov 4, vulnerable senators in red states (Pro-McCain) may have no other option but to suggest that Obama will capture the White House and warn that the Illinois senator needs to be checked by Senate Republicans.

Scot McCellan, a former spokesman for President George Bush, surprised Senator John McCain by endorsing democrat Barack Obama on Friday. McCellan has written a tell-all book about his years in Bush White House.

The New York Times endorsed Barack Obama for

USpresident on Friday, saying he had “met challenge after challenge, growing as a leader and putting real flesh on his early promises of hope and change”.

Earlier this year, the newspaper had endorsed Sen Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination, but now it says Obama has erased the reservations that led it to make that decision.

“He has drawn in legions of new voters with powerful messages of hope andpossibility and calls for shared sacrifice and social responsibility,” the Times said.

“He has shown a cool head and sound judgment. We believe he has the will and the ability to forge the broad political consensus that is essential to finding solutions to this nation’s problems.”