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...this opportunity by linking Obama with the Palestinian cause and casting him as a threat to Israel—anything, it seems to raise doubt in the many voters who rate Israeli sovereignty and security as high political priorities, especially the estimated 650,000 Jews who live in the swing state of Florida...
...registered to vote in California, was still waiting for his absentee ballot to arrive in the mail on Oct. 27. "It's really sort of unfathomable that we're still plotting through this medieval paper-based way of voting that is such a nightmare," says Kai. For swing state voters, this waiting game is more agonizing. "I ordered my absentee ballot from Colorado, a swing state, months ago, and never received it," says Kristen Allen, a reporter for The Local, an online daily news website in Berlin, Germany...
Quarantine or no, news outlets still remember Florida in 2000; if swing-state races appear tight when the last polls close, odds are the media will be cagier about releasing early results--no matter how good the data look...
...people to the voting booths on Nov. 4. But for all the attention that swelling voter rolls have attracted, a disturbing trend in the opposite direction has emerged. Thousands of names across the country have been stricken from voter registration records in a number of locales, some in key swing states. While voter registration rolls must be kept up-to-date and accurate, consistent standards among states and transparency of the “voter purging” process will ensure freer and fairer elections in the future...
...legions of foreign correspondents currently plying their trade in Washington and through the key swing states, the 2008 U.S. presidential election is especially enticing...