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Nearly one-fourth of voters in last November's election were minorities, the most diverse election ever, fueled by high turnout from black women and a growing Hispanic population, an independent research group found.
Enthusiasm among blacks and Democrats for Barack Obama's candidacy pushed voter turnout in this year's elections to the highest level in 40 years.
Americans voted in unprecedented numbers in Tuesday's election, topping the record set in the 2004 presidential race by several million.
Voter turnout will be the highest in decades, dwarfing recent presidential elections, experts predict. The only question dividing experts is how huge will it be. Will it be the largest since 1968, largest since 1960 or even, as one expert predicts, the largest in a century? Soaring early voting levels hint at a big turnout, but that could just be the same voters casting ballots earlier instead of more voters hitting the polls. Weather should generally be favorable, according to forecasts.
Voters came out in record numbers in about half the states that have voted in presidential primaries so far, according to an analysis Wednesday.
Voter turnout hits 40-year high at 61.6 percentEnthusiasm among blacks and Democrats for Barack Obama's presidential candidacy pushed voter turnout in this year's elections to the highest level in 40 years.
What's Going On In Ohio?Still, why were 45 percent of white no-shows nationwide from the state of Ohio? My guess that it is because Ohio is a borderland.
That huge voter turnout? Didn't happenDespite widespread predictions of record turnout in this year's presidential election, roughly the same portion of eligible voters cast ballots in 2008 as in 2004.
(Video) ABC Reporter Chokes Up After Obama Win"Well, this evening, the country has proved my old man wrong and we're the better for it."... See more irresistible headlines
Afghan President Demands Obama End Civilian DeathsThe U.S. military said Wednesday it was investigating claims a U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan hit a wedding causing civilian deaths, as President Hamid Karzai urged U.S. election winner Barack Obama to bring an end to civilian deaths.
(Video) Jesse Jackson Tears Up Over Election of Barack ObamaThe election of Barack Obama as president brings the Rev. Jackson to tears. Watch now See more irresistible headlines
Dying Man Stopped to Mail Absentee Ballot on Way to HospitalA dying Florida man fulfilled his last wish on the way to the hospital when he stopped to mail his absentee ballot. Lloyd Chamberlain died a few days ago during a triple bypass operation. See more irresistible headlines
Voter Turnout Best In Generations, See the PercentageAmerica voted in record numbers, standing in lines that snaked around blocks and in some places in pouring rain. Voters who queued up Tuesday and the millions who balloted early propelled 2008 to the highest turnout in generations, maybe a century.
How Obama might just win Ohio In the state that broke Democratic hearts in 2004, favorable poll numbers and a wave of early voters could point to victory.Oct. 31, 2008 | COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The Buckeye stops here. Ohio is where Democratic dreams died four years ago as John Kerry came up 120,000 votes short of winning the state's 20 electoral votes and the White House.
(Pic) Fake Flyer in Virginia Tells Democrats to Vote Nov. 5With less than a week to go before voters are expected to head to the polls in record numbers, a bogus flyer directing Republicans to vote Nov. 4 and Democrats to vote Nov. 5 has surfaced in Virginia.
Change Voting Day from Tuesday to SaturdayOur country needs to adjust as there are changes in the USA and in the World. What was once a very practical decision to vote on Tuesdays' is no longer applicable and we need to make a change.
Obama campaign targets black voters -- carefully - Los Angeles TimesStrategists believe they've identified a new and potentially decisive Democratic electorate in at least five battleground states. The trick lies in wooing them without alienating whites.
The new American segregationSome have blamed the rise of right-wing media for the polarization of America. Others point to the gerrymandered, hyper-partisan districts that House members now draw each decade to protect their incumbency.
In tribal Pakistan, religious parties are foundering - International Herald TribuneSenator Asfandyar Wali, the leader of an opposition party, the Awami National Party, is campaigning for the elections next week from the safety of his bed, under a quilt and propped up on bolsters for his bad back at his country home outside Peshawar.
All too often, when election season enters into full swing, we forget that we do have a sitting executive whose power and authority will continue to dominate the American political landscape for some months to come.
The Voters Revolt The Reagan administration had its pragmatists and its so-called ideologues. It had James Baker as well as Ed Meese. Reagan carried moderate states like Connecticut, Wisconsin and Washington, as well as conservative ones like Wyoming and South Carolina.
NH Primary Sets Records with Voter Turnout!CONCORD, N.H. - Hot races and unseasonably warm temperatures helped produce record voter turnout in Tuesday's New Hampshire presidential primary.
Daily Kos: Partisanship has *increased* voter turnoutKos examines trends in voter turnout. Have Air America, Fox News and Rush Limbaugh (AKA Plump Numbskull) increased or decreased voter turnout?
Young Voter Turnout Up for Second Major Election in a Row...Turnout among 18 to 29- year-old voters increased by more than 2 million voters in the 2006 elections compared to 2002, according to an early exit poll analysis released today as part of the first comprehensive look at the youth vote in the midterm elections, presented by Young V …
Connecticut: Huge voter turnoutThe state of Connecticut expects a whopping 70 percent of registered voters to cast their ballots today, according to the News Times in Danbury. In the last midterm election, only 56 percent of voters went to the polls.
How to Stop the November Elections from Being StolenProgressive Democrats are saying "we need to get people to the polls in large numbers, win big, and protect the vote counting to make sure that the congressional elections are not stolen on November 7th."
Democrats Fear Disillusionment in Black VotersFor Democrats like these in tight races, black voter turnout will be crucial on Election Day.
Election alerts aimed at youthIn Johnson County, Kansas, the election commissioner plans to increase young voter turnout with a messaging service that sends reminders of election dates, writes Finn Bullers of the daily Kansas City Star.
Ned Lamont said he was proud that the voter turnout for his stand-off with three-term Senator Joe Lieberman got as high as it did. (1) Proud that, from what CNN reported earlier tonight, 47% of those eligible to vote, actually did.
More than a month ago, French officials passed a law entitled le Contrat Première Embauche (CPE), or First Job Contract, in an effort to lower the twenty-three percent unemployment rate facing the youth of France (the 18-24 age bracket), a rate more than twice that of France's n
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