{"id":454,"date":"2008-12-16T14:18:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-16T14:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestdatacompany.info\/asgroupinc\/?p=72"},"modified":"2008-12-16T14:18:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-16T14:18:00","slug":"turnout-in-presidential-elections-hit-40-year-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asgroupinc.com\/turnout-in-presidential-elections-hit-40-year-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Turnout in presidential elections hit 40-year high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Associated Press<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Enthusiasm among blacks and Democrats for Barack Obama&#8217;s candidacy pushed voter turnout in this year&#8217;s elections to the highest level in 40 years.<\/p>\n<p>Final figures from nearly every state and the District of Columbia showed that more than 131 million people voted, the most ever for a presidential election. A little more than 122 million voted in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s total is 61.6 percent of the nation&#8217;s eligible voters, the highest turnout rate since 1968, when Republican Richard M. Nixon defeated Democrat Hubert Humphrey, said Michael McDonald, a political science professor at George Mason University.<\/p>\n<p>Click here to read the rest of the article:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5i34ao3tow5yhj2v7v24HM_wbT8JQD952OUI00\" title=\"Click here for the entire article\"> http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5i34ao3tow5yhj2v7v24HM_wbT8JQD952OUI00<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Enthusiasm among blacks and Democrats for Barack Obama&#8217;s candidacy pushed voter turnout in this year&#8217;s elections to the highest level in 40 years. 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