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...blue state red, but the huge Democratic turnout in the Philadelphia area proved too much to overcome. Obama has also, according to CNN, won his home state of Illinois, plus Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and New Jersey, giving him a total of 102 electoral votes thus far. McCain, for his part, has been projected to win South Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee and Oklahoma, leaving him with a total of 34 electoral votes thus far. Key battleground states like Ohio, Virginia, North Carolina and Florida remain too close to call, as well as Indiana, a usually reliably...
...precinct is no minor issue. In the close 2000 presidential election, more than a million registered voters were turned away from the polls because of clerical and other errors, including voters showing up at the wrong precinct. Democrats believe poor people are often disenfranchised because they move more frequently, thus are less likely to know where to vote. - By Barbara Liston / Orlando...
...official count had Bush winning by 2.5%. More recently, exit polls were a mess during this year's primaries, especially in Obama's case, as no one needs to be reminded. Today, this bias may be particularly strong, since Democrats are so gosh-darn exuberant about their candidate - and thus most likely to talk to exit-pollers...
...Prop 8 does not mention education, and the state education code makes it illegal to instruct children about marriage whose parents object. Another source of criticism comes from the perception that the California Supreme Court’s May ruling was an abuse of power and should thus be invalidated. Proponents of the proposition argue that the ballot measure “overturns the outrageous decision of four activist Supreme Court judges who ignored the will of the people.” But the duty of the judge is to be objective and uninfluenced by the “will...
...distributed over 1,000 CFL bulbs during freshman move-in and has distributed another 500 bulbs in the Houses thus far, according to Brandon P. Geller ’08, the undergraduate REP coordinator. REP will continue providing CFL bulbs to students, both through House reps and a spring “light bulb swap” of old incandescent light bulbs for CFLs...