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...been only 48.3 percent. This is well below France (67.3 percent), Spain (77 percent), and even Morocco (57.6 percent). (China hasn’t had comparable elections.) Americans in this age group, aptly dubbed “Generation Quiet” by New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, vote less than any other age group in the States. According to the web site civicyouth.org, in the 2006 midterm elections, while 52 percent of the adults 30 and over voted, only 22 percent of voters age 18 to 29 did. Now that’s something to be embarrassed about...
...candidate spoke: "Domestic oil field...bold military...end illegals...McCain cancel tax cut" [this underlined] ... "strengthen family." By the time Romney took his last question (something about "men's rights" - a visibly uncomfortable Romney wrapped it up quickly), Gibbs was convinced. "Oh, yeah," he said, "I'm going to vote for Romney." Asked why, he consulted his notes...
...McCain's recovery from near-political death. Thus, as voters cast their ballots today, the Romney campaign must look past a mere tweak of message and hope that the bitter sniping of the last two debates and their intensely negative attacks on McCain will nudge moderate Republicans to vote in the Democratic primary and encourage conservative Republicans to look at second-tier candidates instead of McCain, if they choose not to vote for Romney...
...Their only hope is to take away votes from McCain," says one Republican strategist. "They don't need to convince people to vote for Mitt Romney, they just need to make sure McCain doesn't get any help from independents and that hard-core conservatives cast some kind of anti-McCain protest vote." If Romney can eke out a close second, he heads to the primary in Michigan - his family's home state, where his father was governor - in a position to finally overtake McCain, probably finishing off that cash-strapped campaign for good. If Romney loses New Hampshire...
Even Bill Clinton seemed caught by surprise, referring bitterly before the vote to Obama's "tidal wave" of support. "This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I've ever seen," he said. He turned out to be right, only his candidate was the frog-prince...