Hey readers! Hope you’re all exercising your constitutional rights and hitting the polls today. While you’re there, keep an eye out for anything out of the ordinary. If you see evidence of voter intimidation, malfunctioning voting machines, unusually high or low turnout, campaign workers at polling stations or anything else More…
Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) is pounding the pavement all day today, traveling around the greater Philadelphia area in an attempt to raise turnout in the area where he’ll need it the most, and he’s bringing out his secret weapon: Former President Bill Clinton.
Clinton, who employed Sestak on his counterintelligence More…
BOSTON — A little while after noon, a steady crowd of Democratic voters streamed into the Cathedral High School Gymnasium to cast votes for their party’s embattled nominee, state Attorney General Martha Coakley. This was Boston’s third ward, which the Obama-Biden ticket carried with 74 percent of the vote in More…
QUINCY, Mass. — In this city a few minutes south of Boston, working-class voters were splitting between Democrat Martha Coakley and Republican Scott Brown.
“I always vote Democratic,” said Frank Creighton, a construction worker who voted with his wife Patty at a polling place in St. John the Baptist church. More…
BOSTON — Snow is falling in the Bay State, from western Massachusetts to heavily Democratic downtown Boston. In a campaign full of lucky breaks for Republican candidate Scott Brown, this is a key one. No pollster doubts that his voters are more enthusiastic, and more willing to stand on More…
The Republican National Committee has made available two lengthy voter surveys conducted in New Jersey and Virginia as Republican candidates were winning gubernatorial races there last week. There’s a lot in there, including message-testing on anti-health care reform and cap-and-trade arguments, but this part really jumped out at me. More…
U.S. District Judge Richard L. Williams rejected a lawsuit Monday afternoon that sought to extend polling hours in Virginia today. William ruled that election rules allowing those in line by 7 p.m. to vote after the polls close protects voters’ rights.
The judge also revealed that he had voted early More…
Forget the claims of voter fraud, like Disney characters and dead people voting. The real problem in this election is likely to be not that ineligible people show up to vote, but that lots of eligible voters never make it through the long lines and bureaucratic hurdles to cast ballots More…
It’s becoming apparent that the youth vote could be a key component of Tuesday’s electorate. Americans age 18 to 30 are expected to turn out in record numbers. This is what the Obama campaign has long been focusing on, since Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee, does well with voters More…
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