earlyvoting.net - 10/29/2008
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I think that North Carolina and Georgia are the fascinating early voting stories of this election. Both are swing states (somewhat unexpectedly); both have large minority populations which are bucking past trends; and both have exhibited astronomical levels of early turnout. North Carolina has ...
gallup.com - 10/24/2008
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gallup.com —
PRINCETON, NJ -- Gallup Poll Daily tracking data
indicate that about 11% of registered voters who plan...
to vote have already voted as of Wednesday night, with another 19% saying they plan to vote before Election Day. Roughly equal percentages of Barack ...
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Early Voting, Now at 11%, Could Reach 30%
gallup.com - 10/29/2008
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gallup.com —
PRINCETON, NJ -- Gallup Poll Daily tracking data
collected through Monday night indicate that 18% of registered...
voters who plan to vote have already voted, and another 15% say they will vote before Nov. 4; so far the voter preferences of this early ...
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Early Voting Now Up to 18%
politico.com - 10/22/2008
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politico.com —
Here's an early voting story from a medical
student in Evansville, Ind.: I squeaked in just before...
the 7pm deadline to find two very frustrated poll workers and a line of a couple dozen people, due to problems with the computerized voting system ...
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Early voting in Evansville
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Early Voting and Exit Polls
The Caucus —
... , he said: “If we look at North Carolina, African-Americans are exceeding their share of the vote in 2004 by about 8 percentage points.” Paul Gronke, a professor at Reed College in Oregon who oversees its Early Voting Center , said this season’s early-voting patterns pose particular challenges for those trying to analyze changes in the electoral landscape. “There are flies in the ointment that make things particularly complicated this year,” he said, noting the expected high numbers of new voters, or young people using only cell phones. “Past patterns are not doing very well ...
Early voting resources
The Monkey Cage —
... (if you like a frequently updated table), and the Early Voting Information Center’s blog (if you like chatty discussion and graphs). I’m aware that McDonald is on one side of a debate about how best to measure turnout, but since this isn’t my area of political science, I’m in no position to pontificate on the merits of the one or the other approach … ...
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