Barack Obama won the endorsement Tuesday of three prominent Republicans, including Jim Leach and Lincoln Chafee, both of whom lost their congressional seats to Democratic opponents in the 2006 mid-term elections.
Their support swells the ranks of so-called "Obamacans" and is likely to fuel speculation that bigger names, such as Colin Powell, the former secretary of state, and Chuck Hagel, the Republican senator for Nebraska, might also endorse the Democratic nominee.
Describing Mr Obama's call for change as "more renewal than departure" and thus in line with conservative principles, Mr Leach said: "This is simply not a time for politics as usual . . . a lot of Republicans will be attracted to Obama in spite of the flaws in this year's primary process."
The three, who include Rita Hauser, a former White House intelligence adviser, stressed foreign policy as their principal motivation and alarm at what Ms Hauser described as the Republican nominee's "bellicose" stance on Russia's conflict with Georgia.
Most "Obamacans", among them Susan Eisenhower, the grand-daughter of the former Republican president, Dwight Eisenhower, come from the so-called realist wing of the Republican party which has fallen into deep disenchantment with George W. Bush's foreign policy.
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