A shaman holds coca leaves in his mouth next to a picture of U.S. President Barack Obama during a ritual to predict the winner in the upcoming U.S. elections at San Cristobal hill in Lima. The shamans prognosticated that Obama will succeed.

Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III throws a pass. File picture. The Washington Redskins suffered a 13-21 home defeat to the Carolina Panthers and if you believe the ‘Redskins Rule’ that could be good news for Republican candidate Mitt Romney in Tuesday’s presidential election. Since 1940, with just one exception, George W. Bush’s win over John Kerry in 2004, a Redskins win in their final home game before a presidential vote has meant victory for the incumbent with a loss meaning a triumph for the challenger.

A Barack Obama mask is seen at New York Costumes, a halloween supply store, in New York. Obama masks are slightly outselling Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney masks, said store manager Tony Bianchi.

A reporter holds a cookie with a likeness of U.S. Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on it, brought by U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) from Busken bakery to the airport in Vandalia, Ohio. Busken cookies is selling cookies with each candidates face on them, in the hopes of predicting which will win on the basis of which cookies sell best.

Elections are screwy, so why not ask a squirrel? Gnocci the squirrel predicted President Obama to win in the last election in 2008 but swung to Romney in 2012.

According to a panel of five ABC News astrologists, the stars of Hollywood aren't the only ones backing him, and his victory is written in the heavens.

John Dimo, a traditional witch-doctor, performs an ancient rite with mystical artifacts to predict the outcome of the U.S. elections in Kogelo village, Nyangoma Kogelo, 430 km (367 miles) west of Kenya's capital Nairobi. Kogelo is the ancestral home of U.S. President Barack Obama. Dimo, about 115-years-old, says he knew Obama's father who was buried in the village in 1982. The former army officer says he inherited his trade as a witch-doctor from his father in 1962 and is certain his rite will help favour Obama in the U.S. elections. Four years ago, Kogelo, and Africa in general, celebrated with noisy gusto when Obama, whose father came from the scattered hamlet of tin-roofed homes, became the first African-American to be elected president of the United States. Looking across the Atlantic to the November 6 presidential election, the continent is cooler now towards the "son of Africa" who is seeking a second term. There are questions too whether his Republican rival, Mitt Romney, will have more to offer to sub-Saharan Africa if he wins the White House.