Democrat Barack Obama is set to be the first African-American President of the United States of America after defeating his Republican rival John McCain.
When reports last came in Obama had managed 297 Electoral College votes as against McCain's 146 while he needed 270 to win the historic the race for the White House.
Mccain called Obama to congratulate him on victory.
US poll projections say that Obama is set to win more than 50 per cent of the vote.
"I called Obama and congratulated him. I recognise the significance of this election to African-Americans. We both recognise we've come a long way from old injustices," said John McCain, Republican candidate for President.
Mccain said: "We fought as hard as we could, failure is mine not yours."
A crowd expected to top 100,000 began gathering on Tuesday night in Grant Park in Chicago, where Obama scheduled an address after his victory.
Hundreds of thousands more - Mayor Richard Daley said he would not be surprised if a million Chicagoans jammed the streets - were expected to watch on a large television screen outside the park.
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It will not be a walkover for India: Ponting
India completed a crushing victory over Australia by a record margin of 320 runs in the second Test to seize a 1-0 lead in the four-match series.
But Ricky Ponting, who has been speaking exclusively to NDTV through this series, has come up with a warning to India, said the Border-Gavaskar series won't be a walk-over for the host.
"Too early to talk about decline won't go down without fight. nothing is putting more pressure on us than the way we are playing," Ponting said.
Australia have lost experienced stars Justin Langer, Adam Gilchrist, Glenn McGrath, and Shane Warne to international retirement.
"A series win is well within our reach, it won't be a walkover for India, we can't fill in shoes of Justin Langer, Adam Gilchrist, Glenn McGrath, Shane Warne," Australian skipper said.
"Mike Hussey has been our most consistent batsman in the tour so far, we need our experienced players to play as well as they can. So, the younger players have something to look up to. This is team capable of winning this Test series. we don't care what others are saying," he said.
Ponting also played down a spat with pace spearhead Brett Lee on the fourth morning after the bowler, who has struggled in the series, had been denied a bowl throughout the session.
The Australian skipper said he had told Lee he would not bowl first up, to take the pace off and deny easy runs to Indian as they looked to declare their second innings.
"It doesn't bother me, too much was made of it, Brett understood why he hadn't bowled in the opening session, nothing is putting pressure on us other than the way we're playing our cricket, skipper said.
But Ricky Ponting, who has been speaking exclusively to NDTV through this series, has come up with a warning to India, said the Border-Gavaskar series won't be a walk-over for the host.
"Too early to talk about decline won't go down without fight. nothing is putting more pressure on us than the way we are playing," Ponting said.
Australia have lost experienced stars Justin Langer, Adam Gilchrist, Glenn McGrath, and Shane Warne to international retirement.
"A series win is well within our reach, it won't be a walkover for India, we can't fill in shoes of Justin Langer, Adam Gilchrist, Glenn McGrath, Shane Warne," Australian skipper said.
"Mike Hussey has been our most consistent batsman in the tour so far, we need our experienced players to play as well as they can. So, the younger players have something to look up to. This is team capable of winning this Test series. we don't care what others are saying," he said.
Ponting also played down a spat with pace spearhead Brett Lee on the fourth morning after the bowler, who has struggled in the series, had been denied a bowl throughout the session.
The Australian skipper said he had told Lee he would not bowl first up, to take the pace off and deny easy runs to Indian as they looked to declare their second innings.
"It doesn't bother me, too much was made of it, Brett understood why he hadn't bowled in the opening session, nothing is putting pressure on us other than the way we're playing our cricket, skipper said.
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