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...Power and Passion If key lacks intensity, that probably wouldn't bother many New Zealanders. While they take their politics seriously here - voter turnout in general elections has averaged nearly 90% since 1960, up there with the highest rates in the world among countries where voting isn't compulsory - they're also politically phlegmatic, saving their strongest emotions for more important matters, like rugby...
...expected record turnout for the island's favorite son Obama on Nov. 4 may result in the anti-ConCon groups having their way. But, given the political conservative nature of the state, it is not guaranteed...
...points, and a WSVN-Suffolk University poll has Barack Obama leading over John McCain 60% to 40% among early voters. What's more, the number of early voters could approach 30% of all of Florida's 11.2 million registered voters by the actual Nov. 4 Election Day. That massive turnout prompted Florida's GOP governor, Charlie Crist, to flash his bipartisan bona fides this week and lengthen early voting on weekdays by four hours (while letting each county decide whether to lengthen the normal hours this weekend...
...Benjamin Bishin, a political-science professor at the University of California at Riverside who has studied early voting in Florida, says this year's turnout seems to bear out research on two fronts. One is that early voting "disproportionately rewards campaigns that are better organized" because it often requires more refined voter-mobilization efforts than regular voting does; the other is that it "lowers barriers to participation," especially for hourly workers, who can least afford to take time off from work on election Tuesday. "And the fact that these voters are waiting two or three hours in line, which would...
...time in the Philadelphia area, including Obama's appearance on Tuesday, likely to be his last in the state. Rendell, who himself swept to victory in his first term with a blowout win in the Philadelphia suburbs, said he's confident that Obama will hold those southeastern counties strongly. Turnout in the Philadelphia area might be large enough to make sure Obama is "unbeatable in the state even if the bottom fell out [in the west]," he told TIME. "And I don't think the bottom will fall...