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Face the Nation: India gives Obama the thumbs up
Published on Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 03:37, Updated on Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 03:57 in 
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Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain faced the verdict of US voters on Tuesday after a long and bitter struggle for the White House, with Obama holding a decisive edge in national opinion polls.
Opinion polls indicate Obama is running ahead of McCain in enough states to give him more than the 270 electoral votes he needs to win.
And that brings us to the question of the day that was asked on CNN-IBN show Face the Nation: Eve of historic election – has Obama's time come?
On the panel of experts to debate the issue were acclaimed author and commentator on American politics Zachary Karabell, former diplomat Neelam Deo and Professor of Christ Church College in Kanpur AK Verma.
Who will become the next leader of the free world? Either way, this election, which was the longest and most expensive campaign ever in America, is being seen as a forward movement in history.
History in the making
Karabell began the debate by saying that about 120 million people have voted so far which means the highest percentage in the 20th Century.
Right wing magazine like The Economist have endorsed and said that it is time for change in America. They, too, have endorsed Barack Obama. Does the US need Obama at this point?
“It is clear after Iraq and the financial crisis that this has been a very difficult decade for the US. It is a nameless decade. Every decade has something that it is referred by. The last few years of the new millennium has not gone America’s way. So everything now is a repudiation of what has been going on for the last eight years. There is now a strong passionate desire to move ahead in a constructive fashion,” Karabell said.
What does it say about race in America? Is the American voter ready to transcend racial identity or is it just a myth?
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