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...While she was talking with the press in front of the polling place, in the cafeteria of an apartment building, a man who identified himself as a representative of the city's District Attorney showed up, spoke briefly with the Democratic poll workers and left, saying there was "no situation here" and advising reporters to stay away from the uniformed man. Election watchdog group The Committee of 70 reported at mid-afternoon that they were seeing only a handful of problems in the area, including poll workers who were improperly demanding driver's licenses from all voters at a crowded...
Iowa Democratic Party Press Secretary Brooke Borkenhagen declined to directly address whether high turnout benefits her candidate. She pointed to the strong support and organization built for Barack Obama during the Iowa caucuses, saying "that has carried over." But she quickly added that the campaign's focus right now is on voters. "We are just really encouraged by our volunteer efforts - we are focused on that exclusively, knocking on doors, making phone calls, turning people out," she said. - By Betsy Rubiner / Des Moines...
...1990s, the major news networks and the Associated Press formed a polling consortium called Voter News Service (VNS) to cut costs, eliminating the redundancy of reports from multiple sources. But redundancy isn't always a bad thing, as proved, disastrously, in 2000 - when VNS (and the networks soon afterward) declared the race for Al Gore around 8 p.m., only to switch to George W. Bush at 2 a.m. and declared the race locked at "too close to call" two hours later...
...nuts. Here are the early trends based on Associated Press exit-poll reports...
...44th President and our first African-American Commander in Chief - ran a smart and steady campaign. They won't focus on William Ayers or Joe the Plumber or socialism or racism. They won't debate whether John McCain blew it by targeting Pennsylvania or by avoiding the press or by ignoring the Rev. Jeremiah Wright or by picking Sarah Palin as a running mate. They won't remember the robo-calls or "cling" or the Paris Hilton ad or the crazy chick who carved the B into her face. The pundits filling airtime on their 24-hour news channels might...