Word: closedness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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The San Fernando Valley headquarters for Barack Obama was already buzzing with celebratory activity this evening, even though the votes were still being counted and California's polls hadn't closed. Volunteers streamed in to man phone banks on the ground floor of the building in Van Nuys. Organizers gathered...
Texas: Who Did Early Voters Go for? 10:45 a.m. E.T. Visits by Presidential candidates Obama and McCain have been as rare as jackalope sightings in Texas this campaign season, but apparently that has not dampened Texans' enthusiasm for the contest. Early voting turnout broke all the records this year...
Exit polling - surveying people leaving voting locations about the ballots they cast - debuted in the 1960s, as news organizations (and on a small scale, candidates) sought to gather demographic data about voters that could be used to predict election results. Legendary polling pioneer Warren Mitofsky conducted the first major exit...
Actual projections are made by "decision desks" at the networks - small groups of journalists and polling experts who use exit data and actual returns to decide when to announce winners. So even though all the networks have access to the same exit poll data, they often don't broadcast projections...
Some argue that I should vote to express myself. But is it impossible to find a better way to express oneself than pulling a lever in a closed booth and marking down the name of a proxy with which one barely agrees?