MN highest voter turnout

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The highest turnout was in Minnesota, with 77.3 percent of eligible voters casting ballots, followed by Maine, at 75.3 percent; Wisconsin, 73.9 percent; New Hampshire, 71.9 percent; and Oregon, 71.2 percent.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050114/ap_on_re_us/election_turnout

[Revolucionario83]

1. I notice many southern states had lowest turnouts.

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3. Probably due to vote suppression by the Repubs

There's lots of anecdotal and factual evidence to suggest there were concerted vote suppression efforts in precincts with large minority populations.

[Raster]

2. There is no way bush* received 11.5 million more votes in 2004 than 2000.

" Both candidates drew more votes than their parties' nominees in 2000, CSAE said. President Bush (news - web sites) gained more than 11.5 million votes over the 50.5 million votes he received four years earlier. Kerry won some 8 million more votes than the 51 million received by Al Gore (news - web sites) in 2000."

Prime example of just how fraudulent (s)Election 2004 truly was. So there were approximately 20 million new voters. The foot soldiers that were registering people all across America reported that people were registering dem to rep. about 4-1, and were enthusiastic about voting AGAINST BUSH. Not even necessary for the opposition candidate, but definitely against bush* Polls and surveys said that the majority of people voting for the first time came from groups (youth, women) that would probably vote AGAINST bush*.

Common sense tells you that a majority of new voters did not vote for bush*, they voted against him.

I think the solid, dependable, christian conservative vote is has pretty much reached it's peak and is now deliberately overstated.

[lakeguy]

4. i agree..granted i live in a bubble of mostly democratic leaning

people...i know four people now that switched from b* to kerry and one who didn't vote this time even though he voted for b* in 2000. that's an nine vote swing basically in my own little group of about 20 people. i still haven't found anyone who will admit to doing the opposite.