Polls have an important role to play in the predictions of elections. Polls normally provide enough resource and data base for further analysis. Results obtained through the poll analysis may not be completely true but they very often open new dimensions directing towards new possibilities.

PresidentPolls2008 is one such website, a great online niche website that provides many types of polls that can be tracked by anyone. This niche website contains an updated state by state analysis of the poll results.

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United States will have its new President after 276 days from now. This time the US Election process is also establishing new records with the levels of expenditures in the primaries across the countries. The election is still 276 days ahead but all the previous records have already been broken.

A historical announcement made by Barack Obama for having raised $32 million in the month of January alone. It now becomes the largest amount that was collected in one month’s period ever.

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Senator Barack Obama won the South Carolina primary on Saturday. This victory of Obama proved that he has a potential to overcome the dirt thrown by Clinton’s campaign at him in the most confrontational week of the presidential contest so far. He was able to attract more voters across the racial lines even in a Southern state.

This victory however, may not be a decisive pattern as the turn out of large numbers of black voters made a dynamics that may not sustain the same growth across all the 22 states holding nominating contests on February 5.

Obama could attract almost 24% of the white voters, a little less than he did in the states of Iowa, and New Hampshire. It is a big question mark on whether the race will divide Democrat votes.

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Decades after the struggle against segregation, the racial issues are coming in prominence in US election politics. Barack Obama is fighting to prove that the United States is ready for a black president, observers say.

“The race card is on the table in this election and it is not coming off,” writes ‘Politico’, the US political news website.

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Hillary Clinton now feels that both the Democratic campaigns of her and barrack Obama must have a focus on concerning issues and there is no point in fighting with each other. She was referring the feeling of the former President Bill Clinton who was quoted saying that he might have gone too far in attacking Barack Obama.

Addressing and participating in the “Early Show” at CBC she was expressing the feelings of the former President.“He said several times yesterday that maybe he got a little bit carried away”, said Hillary Clinton.

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Republican presidential candidates, in an attempt to voice their messages to the voters in the states of Michigan and South Carolina, participated in a debate that was broadcasted on ‘Fox News Television’ today.

Both the states will be going through the primaries in coming days. Republican candidates addressed the issues of immigration, economy and the national security in the debate. Voters of the Midwestern state of Michigan are concerned over the issues of economic stability and job losses. South Carolina voters have their own worries related to the illegal immigration problems.

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Voters of the Michigan state were headed to the polls today. This presidential primary has been considered as pivotal for the leading republican candidates. Democratic front, on the other side could not generate enough momentum. Hillary Rodham Clinton is the only

Democratic candidate who has been able to generate waves in the state up to some extent.

Almost 20% of the eligible voters are expected to turn up across the state. This low turn out expectation is mainly because of prevailing freezing temperature and the forecast of snow.

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A CNN opinion poll results released on Saturday revealed that the Republican presidential candidates would be facing a tough general election fight.

CNN survey results show that, the Democratic Candidates, Barack Obama of Illinois, and Hillary Clinton of New York have a double digit advantages, speaking statistically of course, over their Republican candidate rivals Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, and Mike Huckabee. Both the Democratic candidates have drawn more than 50% support in each of the hypothetical matchup.

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