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...tens of millions of voters who will swarm the polls today, only a fraction—that is, those living in the hotly contested swing states—will have a real say in choosing the next president. For this reason and others, this page has advocated the abolition of the Electoral College and the determination of the presidency based on a national popular vote...
...unjustified) political apathy, are set to turnout in record numbers to cast ballots, and cast them, not really for Kerry, but against Bush. Spurred by a once-in-a-lifetime convergence of mobilizing factors, these voters appear to be the potential deciding force in a number of swing states across the country...
According to the Sept. 26 issue of The New York Times, these types of “Democrat-affiliated groups have added tens of thousands of new voters to the rolls in the swing states…a surge that has far exceeded the efforts of Republicans.” In Florida’s “strongest Democratic areas, the pace of new registration is 60 percent higher than in 2000, while it has risen just 12 percent in the heaviest Republican areas.” In Duval County, the site of much of last election?...
...while the electoral college delivered disaster last time around, its anachronistic structure, coupled with the oft-ignored reality of residential segregation, mean that urban black voters are particularly situated to swing the election to Kerry. Blacks make up a huge percentage of the central cities in the major swing states for the election: Milwaukee, Wis.; Detroit, Mich.; St. Louis and Kansas City, Miss.; and most importantly, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, Pa. and Cleveland and Cincinnati, Ohio. If Kerry wins every state that Gore won in 2000 (and he is leading in polls in each) plus Ohio or Florida?...
...three days, Stopsinclair.org raised enough for full-page newspaper ads opposing Sinclair in four swing-state markets. Burger King announced it would pull ads from Sinclair stations, and $90 million was wiped off the value of Sinclair shares, though the stock rebounded after Sinclair altered its broadcast. Sinclair officials claim opponents hurt their own cause. "They turned what would have been a relatively minor story in 25% of the country into a much larger story in 100% of the country," says Barry Faber, vice president and general counsel at Sinclair. "If they had just let us do the show...