msnbc.msn.com - 11/7/2008
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Even without the support of voters under 30, Barack Obama would still have won the 270 electoral votes he needed to become the next president, an analysis of the figures show.
blogs.abcnews.com - 11/4/2008
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blogs.abcnews.com —
CHICAGO, Ill. -- Among the other voters who
have shown up to vote at Shoesmith Elementary School
this morning, where Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., will vote: Louis Farrakhan and William Ayers. Seriously. Welcome to the South Side of Chicago. -...
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Among the Other Voters
adn.com - 11/5/2008
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adn.com —
Don Young, Alaska's lone congressman since 1973 but
running an uphill re-election campaign for months, appears headed
for a surprising upset of Democrat Ethan Berkowitz, the challenger predicted by polls to win Tuesday's contest. With all but three of ...
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Young headed to victory: 2008 Election
politico.com - 11/5/2008
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politico.com —
The coalition of voters that Obama assembled to
win the election was as modern as the technology
his campaign employed. See also: History happens
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Why Obama won
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Women and children first
Jim Treacher's Blog That Is on the Internet —
Women and children first The fabled youth vote did it again! Namely, stayed home : AnaMaria Arumi, who directs the exit poll desk for NBC, MSNBC* and Telemundo, has done the calculations based on the exit poll data and here is what she found: On a state-by-state level, when she re-ran the numbers as if there were no voters under 30, the only states that would switch to Republican presidential candidate John McCain are Indiana and North Carolina. Without younger voters, Obama would still have won the 270 electoral votes he needs to become the next president. So the billboards ...
Daniel Cubias: What Does An Obama Administration Mean for Latinos?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... The facts are that Hispanics favored Obama by more than two to one over McCain (67 percent to 31 percent, according to MSNBC). Looking at it another way, Latino voters accounted for 11 percent of Obama's vote and 6 percent of McCain's total. The Hispanic vote was the difference in New Mexico and Indiana. Furthermore, Obama won a majority of Latinos in Florida, which is astonishing when one considers that the large Cuban American population there has been, in the past, so hardcore Republican that they make Rupert Murdoch look like a gay vegan folksinger in comparison. ...
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balloon-juice.com 11/12/2008 — This is win on so many levels . Can I be an honorary “Jane Hamsher of the left?”
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blah3.com 10/29/2008 — Just watched McNasty on teevee doing his "freeze all but the most essential programs" schtick. He ticked off defense, veterans' care, Social Security and healthcare (hmm, isn't that the vast majority of the budget right there?), but he slipped one more right into the middle of those: NASA. ...
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gallup.com 10/23/2008 — PRINCETON, NJ -- Although Barack Obama leads John McCain by almost 30 percentage points among 18- to 29-year-old registered voters, these younger voters are still less likely than older voters to report being registered to vote, paying attention to ...
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Young Voters in the 2008 Election
pewresearch.org 11/17/2008 — This year, 66% of those under age 30 voted for Barack Obama making the disparity between young voters and other age groups larger than in any presidential election since exit polling began in 1972.
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people-press.org 10/23/2008 — Voters overwhelmingly believe that the media wants Barack Obama to win the presidential election. By a margin of 70%-9%, Americans say most journalists want to see Obama, not John McCain, win on Nov. 4. Another 8% say journalists don't favor either ...
The young and the restless —
First Read 11/7/2008
.. to vote? In his latest blog, NBC's Luke Russert breaks down the youth vote from Tuesday's election and finds good news for the Democratic Party.
"In swing states, the youth turnout greatly helped Barack Obama beat John McCain," he ...
Obama: New dog could be 'mutt like me' —
CNN Political Ticker 11/7/2008
During his press conference as president-elect, Sen. Obama told reporters his eldest daughter, Malia, has allergies which might preclude the family from adopting a shelter dog that would likely be a 'mutt' like Obama.
(CNN) – In his first ...
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