Obama visits grandmother in two-day campaign break
Barack Obama takes a break from the campaign trail
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Tuesday, 21, Oct 2008 07:34
White House frontrunner Barack Obama is taking a two-day break from campaigning to tend to his ill grandmother.
There are just 11 days to go until voters decide whether the Illinois senator or Republican party candidate John McCain will succeed George Bush in the White House.
Despite the impending vote Mr Obama has decided to take some time off as he heads to Hawaii to visit his 85-year-old grandmother.
"Recently his grandmother has become ill and in the last few weeks her health has deteriorated to the point where her situation is very serious," campaign spokesperson Robert Gibbs was quoted by the Reuters news agency as saying.
Mr Obama's decision may fuel accusations of complacency in the Democrat camp as their candidate continues to extend his lead in the polls.
A Reuters-C-SPAN-Zogby poll released today gives Mr Obama an eight per cent advantage over Mr McCain, placing him on 50 per cent to the Arizona senator's 44 per cent.