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...Mississippi results underscored another recurring factor in the 2008 campaign. Democratic turnout, which was barely more than 75,000 in the 2004 primary, on Tuesday totaled more than four times that number. "I am grateful to the people of Mississippi for joining the millions of Americans from every corner of the country who have chosen to turn the page on the failed politics of the past and embrace our movement for change," Obama said Tuesday night...
...greatest boon to the regime's get-out-the-vote effort, however, may have come from an unlikely quarter: President Bush, who last week expressed the hope that the Iranian people would stay away from the polls. That news is more likely to inflame nationalist passions and swell the turnout. So, while large-scale disqualification of opposition candidates mean that the results won't hold too many surprises, voter turnout still could...
...money. The state must get involved to solve these problems, either providing schools with direct funding or expanding possible sources of revenue. Finally, despite the major concerns facing the district as it moves to approve a new budget, there is a sign that encourages us to be optimistic. The turnout at this meeting was more than three times as high as usual, demonstrating Cambridge’s commitment to improving local education. This kind of parental and community involvement in education–which state standards and tests work to undermine–is where solutions to our problems must...
...Black voters in Texas didn't show up in record numbers for Obama - turning out, as a percentage of the vote, in lower numbers than in 2004. The Obama campaign is hoping the low turnout was a one-time fluke; if it wasn't, states like Mississippi, where black voters made up 56% of primary voters in 2004, could get a lot tougher to win for the Illinois Senator - not to mention states like Pennsylvania, where blacks made up roughly...
...campaign matters in getting people engaged," says Bob Brown, a political science professor at the University of Mississippi. "Thirty days ago, that heat didn't exist in Mississippi - not nearly as much as it does now, anyway. So it's possible that depressed registration may have an impact on turnout...