Americans' chance to make history
Americans' chance to make history
Dubai: American voters will have the chance on Tuesday to make history as they go to poll to elect their new president, who according to pollsters should be Barack Obama. But his rival, Republican candidate John McCain says he will fight on and win.
Obama, who if elected will be the first Black president in US history, said on Monday he was "feeling good" and urged Americans to "change history".
"This is a defining moment in our history," Obama wrote in an article published on Monday in The Wall Street Journal.
Urging people to go out and vote for him, he wrote, "I ask you to write our nation's next great chapter... If you give me your vote, we won't just win this election - together, we will change this country and change the world."
Jim Zogby, of the New York-based Zogby International pollsters, agreed. "This is big, bigger than [the election of] Ronald Regan in 1980," he said. "I hate to make predictions, but he polls are very clear, Obama should win," he added. "It is a historic turnaround."
According to the latest polls, the Democratic candidate leads by 11 points. But McCain appeared defiant as he wrapped up a frenzied day of campaigning with a midnight rally in Miami.
"My opponent is measuring the drapes at the White House," he said. "The Mac is back! And we're going to win this election," he added.
For Zogby, McCain "has no chance" in the "most exciting" and expensive elections ever in US history. He attributed that to "eight years of frustration" with fellow republican President George Bush.
