US presidential hopeful Barack Obama has obliterated Hillary Clinton's lead in national polls of Democratic voters and maintains a solid edge in New Hampshire as declared by the latest poll results which are released by Gallup poll ahead of New Hampshire poll results.

We are less than 24 hours away from the results of the New Hampshire primary, and we here at Civic Alert know that you are excited, not only for the assuredly exciting results, but also for our Civic Alert Liveblog of the primary.

TBILISI, January 5 (RIA Novosti) - Mikheil Saakashvili has won Georgia's presidential election in the first round with 52.5% of the vote, according to early exit polls organized by Georgian TV companies.

What are the United States presidential candidates’ positions on scientific topics ranging from evolution to global warming? A special news report, which is being published in the 4 January issue of the journal Science, addresses these questions and profiles the nine leading candidates on where they stand on important scientific issues.

On Wednesday, the Pakistani electoral committee will announce whether the elections due to take place on 8 January will go ahead. The committee was expected to decide on the matter on Monday, but the decision has been postponed twice.

At least 140 people have died in Kenya in post-election clashes across the nation. Incumbent President Mwai Kibaki was declared re-elected on Sunday in a close vote. His opponent Raila Odinga disputes the result and has called for a recount.

Disturbances continue in Kenya following the controversial re-election of President Mwai Kibaki, with more than 100 supporters of opposition candidate Raila Odinga killed in the past day. At least 64 people were killed overnight in western Kenya, and another 40 died in the slums of the capital Nairobi.

The electoral commission of Pakistan held a meeting today to decide whether the general election of the country will go ahead as planned next week on Saturday January 8, 2008.

Pakistan's electoral commission has delayed a decision on whether to postpone the 8th of January parliamentary elections until Tuesday.

China is not keen on holding free elections in Hong Kong in 2012, but it is holding the door open to residents of the former British colony electing their own principle administrator in 2017.

Unofficial early results from Kenya's presidential election show the incumbent, Mwai Kibaki, trailing his main challenger Raila Odinga.

As voters in Iowa and New Hampshire prepare to head to the polls for the 2008 presidential primary season, new research by two Brown University economists shows just how much power these early voters hold. In a National Bureau of Economic Research working paper, Brian Knight and Nathan Schiff demonstrate that early voters have up to 20 times the influence of voters in later states when it comes to candidate selection.