The Research 2000/Daily Kos’ latest McCain vs Obama opinion polls show that John McCain is currently leading Barack Obama in Georgia, Mississippi, Texas, and Wyoming — and McCain and Obama are statistically tied in North Dakota.

A day after the first of the three presidential debates, White House hopefuls - Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain – stepped up their attacks, accusing each other of playing politics with the financial crisis. Following a high-pressure 90-minute encounter in Mississippi, which ended in a virtual tie, Obama hit the campaign trail while McCain returned to Washington to work on a rescue package for the financial sector.

The major media now suspects that McCain’s campaign ‘suspension’ – which took the world by surprise - was a bogus call. Beginning officially on Wednesday afternoon, the so-called suspension ended Friday afternoon.

On Friday, for the first of three presidential debates, with less than six weeks remaining until Election Day, Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama stood behind identical wooden lecterns on the stage of a performing arts center at the University of Mississippi. McCain accused Obama of being an extreme liberal on spending, while Obama accused his rival of being President Bush’s protégé.

Rejecting Republican McCain’s call to postpone the first U.S. presidential debate, scheduled in Mississippi on Friday, to work on legislation dealing with the worst U.S. financial crisis since the Great Depression, Democrat Obama said: “What I’m planning to do now is debate on Friday.”

Shaking up the presidential campaign yet another time, Republican John McCain announced on Wednesday that he will suspend campaigning on Thursday, for the purpose of working on the Wall Street bailout legislation. He has also urged that the first presidential debate, scheduled for Friday, with his Democrat rival Barack Obama be delayed.

For their respective first presidential debates on Friday, both Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain are involved in deliberate planning - preparing to focus on foreign policy and national security issues – more so since the presidential campaign appears to be locked in a virtual ‘dead heat.’ This will be first of three presidential debates before Election Day, and will be held at the University of Mississippi. The debate will be moderated by PBS’ Jim Lehrer.

John McCain is currently having big lead over Barack Obama in Alabama, Alaska, Idaho, Mississippi, and Montana — that’s what say the September’s Obama vs McCain polls conducted in these states.

Alabama has 9 Electoral College votes. Capital Survey Research Center/Alabama Education Association’s McCain vs Obama AL poll, conducted from September 3 to September 9, showed McCain leading Obama by 20 % points— 55 % to 35 % among the registered voters of Alabama.

John McCain is enjoying a hefty lead over Barack Obama in the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Utah, Wyoming — that’s what the recent Obama versus McCain Louisiana, Mississippi, Utah, Wyoming pre-election opinion polls conducted in these states show.

According to Louisiana, Mississippi, Utah, Wyoming opinion polls, these states appear to be the safe states of the Republicans. Here’s what the recent Obama versus McCain Louisiana, Mississippi, Utah, Wyoming pre-election opinion polls show —

First a car accident and now divorce. “The Dark Knight” star, Freeman seems to be definitely going through a dark phase. Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman and his wife for 24 years, Myrna Colley-Lee, a costume designer for theater, have filed for divorce, Freeman’s business partner says.

The latest U.S. government figures has shown that more than a quarter of all Americans are obese with the South topping the list again. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported that the percentage of obese adults rose by 2 % from 24 % in 2005 to 25.6 % in 2007. Among the Southern states, Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee are the worst off with 30 % of adults being obese.

The Mississippi River burst through a levee on Friday, causing the 36th disaster in the last two weeks, and the havoc inundated a small town Winfield, a town which is about 800 north of St. Louis and has about 100 homes and 1,300 acres of crop land.

This was an addition to the U.S. Midwest's multibillion-dollar flood disaster that is said to be fueling the fears of inflation of global food price.

The potency of Marijuana surged last year to the highest level in more than 30 years, posing greater health risks to people who think that the drug is harmless – articulated the report from the University of Mississippi’s Potency Monitoring Project released on Thursday.

The states of Iowa and Vermont provide the best child health care facilities, but Oklahoma and Florida are the worst – says the survey released today by an independent healthcare research foundation.

The Mississippi State Health Department, on Monday, confirmed the first human case of West Nile virus for 2008, in Lincoln County. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it’s the second reported human case in the United States since this year’s inception.