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...hopeful postscript to the GOP's humiliating losses in the Nov. 4 elections, incumbent Saxby Chambliss beat Jim Martin in a runoff vote, dashing the Democrats' hopes for a filibuster-proof Senate. With turnout low despite high-profile stumping by Sarah Palin, John McCain, Bill Clinton and Al Gore--as well as Atlanta rappers Ludacris and T.I.--Chambliss won some 57% of the vote...
...something this important I really hoped the turnout would be greater,” he said, adding that the School Committee discussed holding additional meetings for the public to speak directly with committee members...
...despite the outreach, response to the district’s efforts appears to have been “sparse,” Gee said. Although he was not present at all of the locations, he said that the highest turnout he saw at a single meeting was about a dozen people...
...Undergraduate Council (UC) Election Commission lengthened this year’s presidential campaign from four days to 11, giving student government hopefuls an extra week to preen and be vetted before polls open on Dec. 12. In the face of last year’s dismal voter turnout, the extension of the campaigning period for UC candidates is undoubtedly a good thing. With a sufficiently large student body, it is hard for any candidate to be known widely enough on campus for all students to make an informed voting decision. Freshmen have had only three months to meet other students?...
...Anjali Adukia, a student at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education who helped coordinate the event, said that she was especially encouraged by the diversity of the turnout, particularly the large presence of Pakistani students...