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Steve Hildebrand, Obama's ground game guru, told me a while back that you'll have eight million volunteers out on Election Day. True?
Florida does hold some good news for McCain and the Republicans in the run-up to Tuesday. The GOP is certainly behind in early-voter turnout, but its registered voters have mailed in more than 15% more absentee ballots than the Democrats have. (Republicans also requested far more of Florida...
The broader small-d democratic benefit of early voting is supposed to be higher overall turnout. But analysts say the practice hasn't been around long enough to draw conclusions. The same holds for the widely held notion inside the parties - especially among Democrats, who are assumed to gain more...
Nor has early voting made the case that America's Election Day should be on a weekend instead of a weekday when almost everyone is working: Bishin notes that last week, early-voting numbers in Miami-Dade County dropped from 21,000 on Friday to 14,500 on Saturday and...
In 2003, the Congolese government sketched out an agreement where rebels and militias would join together in a national army. Nkunda was eventually offered the post of general, but instead defected; he has been fighting for the disarmament of Rwandan Hutus in eastern Congo ever since. Despite the 2006 election...