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With Obama headed for the White House, many of these changes could have a short shelf life. The true environmental legacy of George W. Bush will be in what he didn't do - address climate change. Since Bush took office, EDF's Patton notes, the U.S. has released more than 50 billion tons of greenhouse gases. "This is a sobering legacy for the nation," she says. "It's time for America to move forward." That job will fall to Bush's successor, Barack Obama...
...Consider this: Last minute door hanger campaign ads placed on homes in Central Florida by Obama operatives are personalized precinct-by-precinct. On the back of the hanger, under detailed instructions on how to vote, in a block titled "Where You Vote," is the name of the building, street address and precinct number of the resident's polling place. Getting voters to the correct precinct is no minor issue. In the close 2000 presidential election, more than a million registered voters were turned away from the polls because of clerical and other errors, including voters showing up at the wrong...
Inside, election challengers and poll watchers hovered as election judges signed people in and handed out ballots. A young African-American man was waved off when he attempted to use his U.S. passport as identification. "Don't you have something with an address?" asked the poll worker. Told he did not, she passed him off to another judge. He eventually was given a ballot...
...didn't register his new address, he'll have to go to the old voting place," one volunteer said...
Iowa Democratic Party Press Secretary Brooke Borkenhagen declined to directly address whether high turnout benefits her candidate. She pointed to the strong support and organization built for Barack Obama during the Iowa caucuses, saying "that has carried over." But she quickly added that the campaign's focus right now is on voters. "We are just really encouraged by our volunteer efforts - we are focused on that exclusively, knocking on doors, making phone calls, turning people out," she said. - By Betsy Rubiner / Des Moines...