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...comparison to other democratic nations around the world, the United States suffers from very low voter turnout. And considering all of the voting issues we’ve faced in the last eight years, any opportunity to help more people vote should be seized. To be sure, the price of postage is only one issue among many—including on-site registration and limited absentee voting—but it’s one that needs to be addressed sooner rather than later. The process of voting by mail needs to be made more straightforward or citizens...
...Republicans - Mitt Romney enjoyed a decisive victory Tuesday, capturing some 45% of the vote. Far behind in second place was Mike Huckabee, with just over 20%. Reports indicated that Alaskans fought sizeable crowds and bone-chilling weather Tuesday to cast their votes in the day's caucuses...
Democrats - Sen. Barack Obama won the southern state, holding back the efforts of Sen. Hillary Clinton through much of the region. The African-American vote figuring in as a heavy, but not the only, factor in his support. Across Alabama, about half of the Democratic voters were black, and Obama, the Illinois Senator, won 80% of their votes. Exit polling also showed he captured 60% of the votes from people under 30, who made up more than one in 10 voters...
Republicans - There was no G.O.P. vote in Kansas on Tuesday...
Soon after, many of those same news organizations countered earlier reports, and, with 99.5% of the vote reported, projected that Barack Obama had won the majority of some 800,000 ballots - an important victory, especially given Missouri's reputation as the nation's foremost bellwether state in selecting presidential winners...