By Mark Egan
ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama counterattacked on Sunday against a new Republican tactic by saying rival John McCain was more interested in a smear campaign than fixing the U.S. economy.
With McCain losing ground in opinion polls, a campaign strategist was quoted as saying the Republican presidential candidate needed to “turn [...]

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By Joan Bryden, The Canadian Press
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s stand-pat, don’t-panic response to economic turmoil seems to have fallen flat with voters, sending the Conservatives to their lowest support levels of the campaign, according to a new poll.
It’s an apparent chink in the Conservatives’ electoral armour that opponents will try to exploit [...]

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By Rashid Suleiman
The behaviour must have been quite comical. An exiled former powerful president and hero of the African anti-colonial struggle cowering in his bedroom in fear, though nobody was really after him.
Unbeknown to many, this was the other side of life Ghana’s founding father, Kwame Nkrumah, led in exile in Guinea-Conakry. This was [...]

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The untold story of 2007 poll
By Standard On Sunday reporter
Details of how badly Electoral Commission chaired by Samuel Kivuitu bungled last year’s elections continue to emerge even as he leads his team in resisting calls for honourable exit.
Mr Raila Odinga walks out of KICC after ODM disputed presidential election results in 2007.
Its highlights, [...]

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By Oscar Obonyo
Political activity is intensifying right under the nose of Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi within the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) and in his Western Province backyard.
But in his characteristic gentleman-mien, the Sabatia MP is impassive and unmoved.
Curiously, the vocal players inflicting the most lethal damage are “home-boys” from his very own political [...]

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