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...Power and Passion If key lacks intensity, that probably wouldn't bother many New Zealanders. While they take their politics seriously here - voter turnout in general elections has averaged nearly 90% since 1960, up there with the highest rates in the world among countries where voting isn't compulsory - they're also politically phlegmatic, saving their strongest emotions for more important matters, like rugby...
...election, at polling sites like the Coral Reef public-library branch in the Miami suburb of Palmetto Bay, the early voter tended to be an elderly white Republican male. Four years later, the early voter enduring the long lines that snake around the Coral Reef branch is more apt to be a younger, female, African-American Democrat, like Tonia Birgin, 34, a hospital ultrasound technician. "This being Florida, you never know what's going to happen with an election," says Birgin, holding an umbrella to shield her from the midday tropical sun during a two-hour wait this week outside...
...custom has become particularly popular in the Sunshine State, where many voters have come to view it as a hedge against Florida's notorious Election Day mishaps and misdeeds. The added factor this year is the enthusiasm among Obama voters, especially African Americans eager to elect the first black President (if not avenge what they call the Florida disenfranchisement they suffered in 2000). An unusually vast Obama ground operation in Florida has galvanized early voting, bringing movie stars like Matt Damon into Tampa for early-voter rallies and holding drum-line marches in Miami's predominantly black communities. Most polls...
...this way, even the less-substantive interviews on comedy programs achieve a higher end: They lower the barrier between the population at large and the lofty political elite. One of the factors in low voter turnout in the United States has been a too-strong distinction between everyday life and the conduct of government, a psychological chasm separating voter from candidate. If humor and banter can serve as a vehicle for making the electorate think about the issues of our time and take a stake in their government, then our culture should not hesitate to make use of that vehicle...
...Meanwhile, Obama - who, like McCain, has made only one appearance in the county, though Joe Biden has made three - spent all summer quietly registering thousands of new voters in Prince William, which had the second largest increase by county in a state that has seen its voter rolls swell by 436,000 since the beginning of the year. The Obama campaign has made a massive push to register blacks, who make up 20% of the population, as well as Latinos and students at the four colleges in the district. Obama will need these voters...