http://elcerritofocus.org Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 24 Feb 2009 02:28:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://elcerritofocus.org/2008/11/05/blog-highest-voter-turnout-in-100-years/ http://elcerritofocus.org/2008/11/05/blog-highest-voter-turnout-in-100-years/#comments Wed, 05 Nov 2008 20:33:55 +0000 Fernando Gallo http://elcerritofocus.org/?p=2056 One expert in this Associated Press story estimates that Tuesday’s election had the highest voter turnout since 1908, when William Howard Taft defeated William Jennings Bryan. Others argue that the turnout wasn’t that momentous, but the best in at least 40 years. The estimates in the story have the turnout at around 135 million voters, much larger than the 122.3 million that voted in 2004.

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