Daily News staff offers ways for Obama to win

-- Mustafa Akyol: He can praise Turkey's role as a soft power in the region and promise to support the country's EU process. He might visit a mosque and praise the country's synthesis of the Muslim faith with secular democracy.

-- David Judson: He could address the issue of the marginalization of the Roma people in Turkey, and in Europe as a whole. As Obama’s personal story is so much about the inclusion of formerly excluded groups, the symbolic embrace of the Roma issue in Turkey’s Sulukule neighborhood would be very much appropriate in the larger European contest, and in Turkey, home to the world’s oldest Roma community.

-- Barçin Yinanç: He can go to Ortaköy and show that he is brave enough to eat kokoreç.

-- Nejat Başar: He could kiss a baby in a rundown neighborhood.

-- Taylan Bilgiç: He could maybe apologize for past U.S. policies toward Turkey.

-- Suraj Sharma: He could put on a cap with the Turkish flag on it.

-- Serkan Demirtaş: Obama should meet with the people of Gürtepe, in Van, who sacrificed 44 sheep upon his election as the 44th president.

-- İrem Köker: He should go to Kumkapı and have fish and rakı with the local people.

-- Çetin Cem Yılmaz: I would love for him to go and see a gig by a Turkish rock band.

-- Sevim Songün: I think he should ask Turkish officials to not block the roads of Istanbul while he is in the city.

-- Mustafa Oğuz: Obama should play football with the political parties' Istanbul leaders, then go to Tophane with them to smoke a water pipe.

-- Ben McIntosh: He should go on TV, but this time to pit his wits against the intellectual powerhouse that is the 50 Sarışın (50 Blondes).