In Bone-Chilling Rain, Obama Says Change is Coming

by Jitendra Joshi – 18 mins ago
HARRISONBURG, Virginia (AFP) – White House rivals Barack Obama and John McCain entered the final seven days of their historic campaign Tuesday, sparring in rain-lashed Pennsylvania as the Democrat exhorted his fired-up supporters to nail down victory.

While McCain canceled one event in the rust-belt state owing to the foul weather, Obama paid tribute to more than 9,000 hardy supporters who turned out at an outdoors rally despite freezing rain and driving winds.

"This is an unbelievable crowd for this kind of weather," the Democratic senator from Illinois, who is bidding to be America's first black president at the youthful age of 47, said to huge cheers in Chester, Pennsylvania. "If we see this kind of dedication on election day, there is no way that we're not going to bring change to America," Obama said on the final countdown to next Tuesday's vote.

Michael McDonald, a political scientist with George Mason University in Virginia, said about 12 million voters had already cast ballots nationwide ahead of the November 4 election.
McDonald said that based on stated party affiliation, most of the early votes have gone to Obama. A new Suffolk University poll meanwhile showed Obama surging to a 10 point lead of 50 percent-40 percent over McCain in Nevada, which along with Colorado and New Mexico could be set to flip from Republican red to Democratic blue.

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