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...available, exit polls indicate a significant jump in youth turnout. Between 22 and 24 million ballots were cast by young voters, amounting to at least a 2.2 million increase from 2004, according to Tufts University’s Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement. H-VOTE, an Institute of Politics program that helped students register in their home states and obtain absentee ballots, reported a four-fold increase in the number of voters it registered compared to 2004. Two thousand and seventeen students registered or pledged to vote this year through H-VOTE, up from about...

Author: By Pooja Venkatraman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Election Energized by Youth Vote | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

...Spencer H. Hardwick ’11, a native of Kansas City, Mo., said that people in his hometown had a hard time believing that a black man could actually win a national election...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett and Abby D. Phillip, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Historic Night Ends in Tears of Jubilation | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

...Among Obama’s guests at the election night rally in Grant park was Law School Professor Laurence H. Tribe ’62, who said he was “ecstatic” at his former student’s victory...

Author: By Athena Y. Jiang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: OBAMA WINS IN HISTORIC RACE | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

...situation drew the attention of conservative media like Fox News, as well as Republican attorney Lovida H. Coleman Jr., a member of Lawyers for McCain, who showed up on the scene to observe. The mens' dress - particularly the nightstick - "was very militaristic and could have been very intimidating," she said. "I don't think someone would be wearing that garb in front of a voting machine without the intent to send a message...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election Day Dispatches: It's Morning for the Kenyan Obamas | 11/4/2008 | See Source »

...Montana has only three electoral votes and has gone GOP in almost every presidential race for the past four decades. (LBJ won it in 1964; but Bill Clinton took it in 1992 only because Ross Perot chomped into what would have been the Republican vote for George H. W. Bush.) In 2008, however, the Obama campaign organized early for the Democratic primary there and has maintained its presence. Indeed, it has been running local TV spots continuously since June. While Barack Obama and his wife Michelle made several trips to the state this year, John McCain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election Day Dispatches: It's Morning for the Kenyan Obamas | 11/4/2008 | See Source »

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