Much-hyped Turnout Record Fails to Materialize - 0 views
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Scarlett Gaddy on 21 Aug 11Despite lofty predictions by some academics, pundits, and practitioners that voter turnout would reach levels not seen since the turn of the last century, the percentage of eligible citizens casting ballots in the 2008 presidential election stayed at virtually the same relatively high level as it reached in the polarized election of 2004.