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Eelection Turnout Hits 40-Year High

Posted by philhardwick on December 16, 2008

FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS:  Final figures from nearly every state and the District of Columbia showed that more than 131 million people voted, the most ever for a presidential election. A little more than 122 million voted in 2004.

This year’s total is 61.6 percent of the nation’s eligible voters, the highest turnout rate since 1968, when Republican Richard M. Nixon defeated Democrat Hubert Humphrey, said Michael McDonald, a political science professor at George Mason University.  Click here to read the article.

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