In my last post on voter turnout, I promised an update when final numbers were in…and here we are. In the meantime, I’ve been researching the topic and found Dr. Michael McDonald’s United States Elections Project to be extremely valuable. I’ll summarize, but I encourage you to check out the US Elections Project Web site.
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Voter Turnout in 2008 Revisited
Obama – McCain Election Draws Record Voter Turnout in 2008
UPDATE 11/7/2008: The Federal Election Commission has lowered it’s preliminary estimate of people who voted in the 2008 election to 122,253,622. That’s only 61.9% of all eligible voters, which hasn’t been bested since 1964 (Lyndon Johnson over Barry Goldwater). But the numbers remain preliminary, so I’ll revisit everything when it is finalized. Thanks! –frets
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Yesterday’s election [...]
Your RNC / DNC Convention Reduced to a Word Cloud
Now that the Democratic and Republican National Conventions are over, I grabbed all of the (available) speech texts from the DNC and RNC Web sites and threw them into wordle.net just for fun (yep, I’m sadistic that way sometimes). It is hard to compare word occurrences because the Republicans don’t have nearly as many speeches [...]
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