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...administration policies, and they are expected to express those views in record numbers on election day, according to a new national poll released by the Institute of Politics (IOP) yesterday in Washington, D.C. The IOP poll, which has a margin of error of +/-3 percent, predicted the highest voter turnout in twenty years for voters between the ages of 18 and 24. Thirty-two percent of the 18 to 24 year olds surveyed said that they will “definitely be voting.” If the IOP’s prediction proves true, young voters could...
...Ultimately, however, the race may not come down to all these attacks or endorsements, but instead to what will likely determine the results in all of the closest contests around the country: turnout. What has helped Democrats win the past two governor's races in this traditionally Republican state has been changing demographics. Sixty percent of the state's growth since 2000 has come from the Northern Virginia suburbs outside Washington - areas that are heavily Democratic. In 2005, Democrat Tim Kaine easily won the governor's race in Virginia; though he didn't perform as well in rural areas...
...Both Allen and Webb need to get major turnout here. Webb hopes to accumulate enough votes to make up for a deficit in the southern and more conservative parts of the state, while Allen needs to hold down his margin of defeat in the north while getting the bulk of voters in the southern part of the state. Whoever wins can only hope the Senate turns out to be a lot less colorful...
...Supporters of Angelides are hanging their hopes for high turnout on recent Pew Research findings that their party members are far more excited about voting than Republicans. Democratic volunteers are already working phone banks and knocking on doors to spur liberals, Latinos and African Americans, among other party faithful, to cast ballots for Angelides. Labor unions for the building trades and health workers are being equally aggressive, leafleting at construction sites early each morning and talking up Angelides to undecided nurses at lunchtime...
...citizens' initiative in Arizona--which, with 19 measures on its ballot, has more than any other state--would require farmers to give pregnant pigs and calves raised for veal a little more living space. Another aims to pump up voter turnout by setting up a $1 million jackpot for one lucky voter every two years. A Nebraska measure proposes to double funds for treating compulsive gamblers, to $1 million. Voters in Colorado and Nevada will decide whether to make the possession of up to an ounce of marijuana legal, while those in South Dakota vote on whether pot should...