Tuesday, November 4

VOTER TURNOUT: MORE THAN 66%?

VOTER turnout has the TV anchors very excited, and there's a chance that this could be the best year since 1908, when the turnout was something like more than 66%. They're putting it down to person-to-person contact (the way it would have been a hundred years ago) -- that is, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and, I suppose, all those hundreds of thousands of volunteers who have been hitting the pavements all over America. There's a record turnout in Los Angeles; in one county in Ohio the turnout is 80%; 4,4 million people voted early in Florida, and inside the polling stations there it's humming right now.

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