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...Bush won the county by less than 6 percentage points; in 2006, Democrats took over the county commission for the first time in 44 years. In 2000, the last time both parties had a competitive primary, 115,300 voters participated on the GOP side, while only 54,600 cast votes for Democrats. This year the numbers are flipped: 83,400 voted for Republican candidates, and nearly 165,000 participated in the Democratic primary. Although Hillary Clinton won Ohio easily, Obama's best showing statewide came in Hamilton, where he won 63% of the vote. "We have a reservoir of support...
Networks began exit polling--surveying people leaving voting locations about the ballots they cast--in the 1960s, and it soon became a common tool to predict winners before votes were tallied. But after NBC reported Ronald Reagan's 1980 victory over Jimmy Carter hours before polls closed on the West Coast, Congress held hearings on whether the practice depressed voter turnout, and networks vowed not to project a state's winners until polls close. (Exit polling is protected by the First Amendment...
...don’t stop,” we see the beginnings of determination working in the very way Jolie holds herself. It’s a good thing Jolie’s performance is so solid, because she carries most of the weight of the film. The accompanying cast includes John Malkovich, who plays Gustav Briegleb, a Presbyterian reverend who has made it his life goal to expose the LAPD for the fraud it is, and Jeffery Donovan as the unscrupulous J.J. Jones, captain of the LAPD juvenile investigation unit. Despite their roots in a true story, both characters...
...Keefe ’91. “At Harvard, I met high-powered, fascinating people who were utter dicks. I guess you can learn something from those dicks,” he said of the College’s impact on his work.The creators and touring production cast members of “Legally Blonde: The Musical,” running at the Boston Opera House until Nov. 9, gathered for a panel discussion last Tuesday at the New College Theatre. Participants included O’Keefe, his wife Nell D. Benjamin ’93 (who co-wrote...
...specific concerns. High smoking rates (among the highest of the developed nations) are infinitely more pressing than obesity. Ditto for stomach cancer (start a campaign against pickled foods! They’re the proven culprits). Japan, stop trying to fix your cuts with America’s casts. Maybe the cast will stop the bleeding, but a band-aid is all you need.—Columnist Rebecca A. Cooper can be reached at cooper3@fas.harvard.edu...