But, 72-year-old McCain, seeking to leave behind the legacy of incumbent George W Bush who is being criticised for his foreign and economic policies, hopes to make a remarkable comeback in the race for Presidency defying poll pundits. If he wins he will be the oldest person to be inaugurated as President.
The state of Kentucky is attracting lot of attention this election season where the Senate Republican Minority leader Mitch McConnel is involved in a tough re-election battle.
The Obama campaign is very much hoping for Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio to fall in the democratic column and is in the process boosting the electoral college votes.
By the same token the McCain campaign is hoping that Virginia, the political mid-west and Florida will stay with the Republicans and it is even hoping to wrench Pennsylvania away from the Democrats from where John Kerry was elected to the Senate in 2004.
Image: People stand in line early morning to cast their votes at the polling place in the Albright United Methodist Church in Phoenix, Arizona.
Photograph: Doug Pensinger/Getty Images
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