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Turnout

November 04, 2008 7:53 AM

Nm_absentee_ballot_080921_main We're already getting calls and emails from people all across the country saying there are lines everywhere.

We are going to break voter turnout records this year, huge records.

More than 130 million people are likely to vote this year. That is a huge record.

Beyond that though, ever since 18-year-olds got the vote back in 1971, the percentage of eligible voters has never really topped by any significant margin 60 percent.

This time around it could hit 62, 63, or 64 percent of eligible voters.

That is huge.

If it hits 65 percent, it would be stunning.

You have to go back to 1908 to find numbers like that, before women or 18-year-olds got the vote, when it was just adult men controlling the electorate.

If  we top that number today, it would be absolutely amazing.

--George Stephanopoulos

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You should all read Obama's Declaration of Dependence before you vote today:

http://www.middleofright.com/2008/11/declaration-of-dependence-november-4th.html

Posted by: NotACommie | Nov 4, 2008 8:12:31 AM

Happy days are here again!!
Obama/Biden 08/12

Posted by: Obama rocks! | Nov 4, 2008 8:15:02 AM

Not really, this would be the expected result after 8 years of a government the rest of the world sees as a joke.
Still, just 65% of the eligible population voting reflects on how unseriously Americans take the fate of their country.

Posted by: wlp | Nov 4, 2008 8:15:26 AM

Go get them Barack and show them what a dirty champaign will do for them >>>>>I hope you wipe them clean,I voted republican most of the time but right now I want NOTHING to do with the Republican party.I hope it takes years to get back what these two have taken away from them...

Posted by: nh voter | Nov 4, 2008 8:15:49 AM

Huge line at the rec center this morning, glad I early voted and could just drive by and not have to wieght.

Also ABC you are already falling behind on your election totals map. Obama won the town of dixville NH just after midnight 15 to 6. Get on your game or we are all going to be watching CNN tonight.

Obama Biden 08 12

Posted by: Eric From Ohio | Nov 4, 2008 8:23:43 AM

Don't take my word not to vote for Obama, take someone elses.

"In the White House there is no time for speeches and on-the-job training. Senator McCain will bring a lifetime of experience to the campaign and Senator Obama will bring a speech that he gave in 2002. I think that is a significant difference." Hillary Clinton

Posted by: Ouch! | Nov 4, 2008 8:24:37 AM

It is ashame that people ignore the signs of who Obama is about. If someone was a member of the Latin Kings for 20 years, never killed anyone and was running for president said that "my associations mean nothing", would we still vote for them if they were running for president???? It looks as if you have a slogan of CHANGE, people still would.

Posted by: Joe V | Nov 4, 2008 8:24:47 AM

The last place I'll look to follow the election results is ABC and George Stephanopoulos. This little worm has tarnished journalism forever. He has been blatantly biased throughout the campaigns.

Filth follows filth so it was an easy choice for ABC to follow Obama.

MCCAIN - THE REAL MAN FOR 08

Posted by: Alexandra | Nov 4, 2008 8:25:28 AM

I voted at 7:10 this morning in a small town in Pennsylvania. I was the 11th to do so and there was a line forming behind me. I have never been so excited to vote (I am 31). Obama 08!

Posted by: Marie | Nov 4, 2008 8:26:24 AM

Don't stop working on making this a landslide.
EVERY vote is necessary for Obama to get the mandate he will need to move forward and make important decisions to make this country great again.

VOTE & get calling to make others vote!

Posted by: scooterfoot | Nov 4, 2008 8:26:44 AM

Win or lose, at least I know I voted for an honest man with no vermin in his closets.

MCCAIN for a Christian White House.

Posted by: CHAD | Nov 4, 2008 8:28:15 AM

VOTE TWICE FOR OBAMA...Go to C-N-N-COM ONLINE POLL

Posted by: Lawrence | Nov 4, 2008 8:30:28 AM

BARACK OBAMA WILL GET MORE VOTES THAN ANY PRESIDENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY!

Posted by: Obama/Biden - the only Positive Choice for America! | Nov 4, 2008 8:31:59 AM

I voted at 7:10 this morning in Pennsylvania for Obama! Woo Hoo!

Posted by: Marie | Nov 4, 2008 8:34:13 AM

Another vote here for CHANGE!!! Voted at 7:10 in PA for Obama!!!

Posted by: Luis | Nov 4, 2008 8:37:17 AM

My wife and I voted for Obama this morning in Indiana. Felt great and good luck to all those yet to vote! Here's hoping everything goes smoothly no matter who you vote for.

Posted by: Ordermonger | Nov 4, 2008 8:43:37 AM

I will vote for Obama.

I volunteered for his campaign but not in the standard way:

His people articulated his vision of community participation in the modern technology age.

I was able to make phone calls while watching my kids plays soccer and practice football. I used a cell phone and an internet connection to download/upload a phone list and results.

If he can bring just this level of smarts to making government better he will rank with the best of the 20th Century (Last century but Bush doesn't count in this one.).

Posted by: Mr. Coffee | Nov 4, 2008 8:47:26 AM

"In the White House there is no time for speeches and on-the-job training. Senator McCain will bring a lifetime of experience to the campaign and Senator Obama will bring a speech that he gave in 2002. I think that is a significant difference."

- Hillary Clinton

Posted by: Please Explain Hillary | Nov 4, 2008 8:51:52 AM

The last place I would turn for unbiased results would be you George.

Posted by: Nubtail | Nov 4, 2008 8:54:23 AM

The last place I'll look to follow the election results is ABC and George Stephanopoulos.
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And yet you're here?

Funny.

Posted by: twisted logic | Nov 4, 2008 8:57:33 AM

Nub...yet here you are. leaving comments. i am sure FOX news would be glad to have you. :)

Posted by: Marie | Nov 4, 2008 8:58:49 AM

My wife had to vote absentee yesterday in Louisville, Ky. The County Clerk's office was well organized and she was in and out in six minuets. Her brother used the absentee ballot in Cincinnati and his wait was 4 hours. They have some sort of punch system so the dangling chads are probably still with us in Ohio. They were driving to Davenport, Iowa to pick up a 32 ton crane. My wife was just talking to me and said the local news stations were porting long line. Looks as if this will have a record number of people voting--and a good thing too!
History in the making makes for record turnouts. Who ever wins will need the support of all the citizens to weather this financial debacle. So maybe it is time to ease up on all the barbed comments from supporters of both candidates.

Posted by: Michael | Nov 4, 2008 9:04:06 AM

I am so proud of the campaign that Barack Obama has run. Positive, decisive and honest. The Repubs however ran the usual dirty, low-life campaign...but guess what? It won't work this time! McCain/Palin are morally and ethically bankrupt! So long Sarah. Go hunt some moose!

Posted by: Louise Riley | Nov 4, 2008 9:06:16 AM

Seems we currently have a Christian White House...look where that took us.

Keep religion out of politics.

Posted by: scooterfoot | Nov 4, 2008 9:07:06 AM

CHAD votes the "Christian" ticket: "
Win or lose, at least I know I voted for an honest man with no vermin in his closets. MCCAIN for a Christian White House."

Like Bush was a Christian, too, and see where that got us. And nothing in McCain's closet? I guess you follow a different brand of Christianity than I'm familiar with. Why'd he go to the Bahamas with Keating? To be a missionary? How come he palled around with Gordon Liddy, that upstanding felon? And where'd he get that cute young wife with the millions, ya think? Met her at a church social, I'll bet.

Posted by: Hokuto | Nov 4, 2008 9:10:45 AM

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