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Excerpted from  TheHill.com , Dick Morris, November 11, 2008

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Turnout did not increase substantially. Despite predictions  of a vastly greater voter turnout, it didn’t happen. Turnout rose by about 5 million (4%) between 2004 (122 million) and 2008 (127 million).  In contrast, turnout increase almost 20% between 2000 and 2004.

As expected, Obama generated a big increase in African-American voter turnout. Exit polls estimate that blacks constituted 13 percent of the turnout in 2008, compared with 11 percent in 2004 and 10 percent in 2000.

But voters under 30 years of age were still the same 11 percent of the vote that they were in 2004. The surge of young voters failed to happen.

Full article:
http://www.vote.com/mmp_printerfriendly.php?id=1210

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