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Subscribers to the VNS service must agree to an embargo on the data until the majority of the polls in a particular state have closed, in order to ensure that a projected outcome does not influence voters or reduce turnout...
After shockingly low voter participation in the primaries earlier this year--with just eight percent of registered voters in Cambridge turning out for the September primary--voter turnout was extremely strong on Tuesday...
...some crazed jumble high. It wasn't that I cared who became president, I just loved the sense of community. I loved the competition, and the pointless, complex electoral system. If we were voting for anything, even our favorite Gore girl - an election that would have an even higher turnout - I'd be just as excited. If we could vote more often, we'd be a better, happier country. Thank God for the Internet...
...loving husband and father. He worked extraordinarily hard throughout this election, running himself nearly into the ground during the homestretch. But the fire in his belly just didn't transmit. There was no spirit in his voice, no excitement in his words. This election was all about turnout. And Gore just couldn't turn his voters...
...state has become - which may help explain why they twice made premature calls on the outcome. Florida voters used to be thought of as a homogenous Democratic white and black vote, and a growing Republican white and Cuban-American vote. But today there are many more independents. And the turnout of black voters was much higher than usual. Also, besides Cuban-Americans there's also a growing bloc of more liberal non-Cuban Hispanics. The elderly vote has become much more of a factor, and the Tampa vote much more heterogeneous. The demographic tapestry in Florida now is so much...