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...main reason is geography. The largest percentage of white Evangelicals are in Southern states that were never in play for Democrats. They were therefore never part of any outreach effort - Obama's 50-state strategy didn't involve sending campaign staff to organize Alabama Bible colleges. Instead, the Obama camp focused its energy on a handful of battleground states with sizable Evangelical populations, including Colorado, Indiana and Michigan...
...Anecdotally, McGinnis said, students at the nearly 50,000-student University of Central Florida are getting in line and staying in line even if it takes hours to vote. The Obama camp is hoping for strong support from young and first-time voters...
...John McCain is doing, Treloar says, "I don't have any data from the ground to answer that but generally the momentum that the McCain camp has had over the last four days has been extremely good. It's all about momentum and peaking at the right time." And McCain, he says, is peaking. Heavy turnout, he adds, is good for all. "If there are more voters, a lot of those are going to be ours too," he says. "Heavy turnout is good for the election process in general and is not going to sway to one side...
...they found a line wrapped around the building in advance of the 6 a.m. opening. The volunteers were met with cheers when they began handing out chocolate chip cookies. Determined to make the long lines more bearable for Missouri voters, the Obama team was also provisioned with coffee, magazines, camp chairs, children's books and trail mix. They said that a licensed massage therapist was planning to tour the urban precincts, giving free neck massages to voters grown weary and stiff while waiting...
...both pro and anti-Kirchner, concur with that assessment. "He is the one definitely calling the shots," says Maria Eugenia Estenssoro of the centrist Civic Coalition Party, which came in second in last year's elections. "It is a big disappointment," says another legislator from Fernández's camp, who requested anonymity. "Kirchner is now in charge again...