Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack Obama leading by eight points
ahead of election.

ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, UNITED STATES (OCTOBER 20, 2008) NBC -
Democrat Barack Obama has opened an eight-point lead over Republican
John McCain two weeks before the U.S. presidential election, according to a
Reuters/C-Span/Zogby poll released on Tuesday October 21). If elected, Obama
will become the country's first African-American president and one of the
nation's youngest.
Obama leads McCain 50 percent to 42 percent among likely U.S. voters in the
latest three-day tracking poll, up from a six-point advantage for Obama on
Monday. The telephone poll has a margin of error of 2.9 percentage points.
Obama has shattered campaign fundraising records. His campaign recently
announced that they had raised more than $150 million in September. Obama also
recently broke his event attendance record, drawing around 100,000 people to a
rally in St. Louis on Saturday (October 21).
Obama's has risen in the polls since September when news of economic
crisis broke in the United States in September. He has accused Senator John
McCain of being wrong on the issue of the Iraq war and has cast the Republican
candidate as being out of touch on economic issues.
On Sunday (October 19), Obama received an endorsement from former Secretary
of State Colin Powell.
The Democratic candidate's campaign announced on Monday (October 20)
that he will suspend political events on Thursday (October 24) and Friday
(October 25) to be with his ailing grandmother in Hawaii.