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...percentage points.Election Pulse also let users join groups to show their support for hot campaign issues. Those with the most support were “Reduce the Drinking Age to 18!” (131,919 supporters) and “Legalize Same-Sex Marriage” (98,930).Turnout of young voters—those between ages 18 and 29—jumped from 20 percent in 2002 to at least 24 percent in 2006, according to preliminary data from the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, based at the University of Maryland. That increase...
...undergraduates look for ways to celebrate Harvard-Yale weekend, they may find fewer options due to efforts made to encourage turnout at several campus-wide events...
...Yale-Princeton game in New Haven this Saturday had a remarkably high turnout, Yale students said, possibly owing to less enthusiasm for the upcoming Game. Christian E. Hudson, a sports broadcaster for Yale’s student radio station, WYBC, said that there were over 42,000 students in attendance at the Yale-Princeton game on Saturday. In the past the Princeton game never drew more than 30,000 spectators, while 55,000 students attended the Harvard-Yale game last year, Hudson said. Hudson, a senior, attributed the unusually high turnout to decreased interest in attending The Game, as well...
...With so much at stake, early indications were that turnout will be heavier than the 40% or so that typically occurs in off-year elections. Officials at polling places across the country were reporting lines of voters, as more than 80 million Americans were expected to cast their ballots today. "Its heavy, very heavy," said Rita Yarman, the elections director in Knox County, Ohio. "It's that way all across the county." However, nearly one-third of voters nationwide are using new polling equipment, and glitches were being reported across the country, particularly in Indiana, Ohio and Illinois...
...addition to the Congressional races, Democrats are expecting to make gains in the 36 states that are having gubernatorial elections. Of those, Republicans are defending 22 statehouses; Democrats are trying to hold onto 14. Turnout in many states is also being driven by hot-button ballot initiatives. Where bans on gay marriage helped bring out Republican voters in the last few cycles, initiatives on the minimum wage and on stem-cell research could have the opposite effect this time...