Just because she's black?' Such questions have led some Brazilians to compare Silva's candidacy with Obama's historic campaign.

BOURNEMOUTH Whatever happens, it will be a historic campaign for the south-coast club in their first season at the highest level.

Anyone who took part in this historic campaign, or who observed it dispassionately, knew by last weekend that something spectacular was going to take place.

This year is the 50th anniversary of Robert Kennedy's 1968 assassination, the same year of his historic campaign for the presidency.