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Early Voting Exit Polls 2008: See Full Results on Presidential Election

Posted by Iflove Featured Stories on November 4, 2008 at 8:25 pm

Early Voting Exit Polls 2008: See Full Results on Presidential Election. For those looking to get details on the early voting exit polls in 2008 and the U.S. Presidential election results, then you have come to the right place.

What are Exit polls? These are surveys that are taken when a voter leaves their voting place; it’s taken from just a small percentage of voters and as such can only be taken lightly. With the actual result in elections taking hours to count, these polls help voters get news on how things are shaping.

In a matter of hours, you are going to start hearing talk of exit polls. We are going to post them ourselves, right here, in this entry.
But, before you get ahead of yourself, there’s a question that needs to be asked: Should you trust the exit polling data? The short answer is: No. The longer answer is: Noooooooooooo. Right now, if there’s one memory that remains — stinging.

A lot of people in here are very…ummm…. passionate.
I do agree with Dave par on the point that some of Obama’s ideas are socialist. However, I think Obama’s heart is in the right place, and the things he wants to accomplish are good things. The reason I did not vote for Obama is because having hopes and dreams is not a qualification to become president. You need to have the knowledge and experience to fulfill Americans hopes and dreams.

I too, want to see fewer people losing their homes. But I do not believe in taking money from someone who has more wealth, via luck or hard work, to pay for someone elses poor luck or poor choices. I do not believe anyone has the right to decide who is and who is not worthy to suceed in life.
Obama’s ideals are just that…IDEAL. They would work in a perfect world full of perfect people, but this world is far from perfect, and we people are full of flaws.

This is why I voted for McCain, not because I believe no one else in the world could do a better job, but because I believe he can do a better job than the Obama of today. Should Obama run again, with more experience under his belt and a better understanding of humanities limitations I may just vote for him.

Early Voting Exit Polls 2008: See Full Results on Presidential Election. For those looking to get details on the early voting exit polls in 2008 and the U.S. Presidential election results, then you have come to the right place. Editing by Bob Jones

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Paid GOP Employees Complain they misled Wisconsin voters

Posted by Iflove Featured Stories on November 4, 2008 at 9:40 am

Paid GOP workers say they misled Wis. voters. News from MADISON, Wis. – Four employees hired by a temporary staffing agency to encourage absentee voting for Republican presidential candidate John McCain say they were instructed to tell people they were GOP volunteers.

Kevin Kennedy, director of the state’s Government Accountability Board, said he received complaints that the workers were told to mislead voters into believing they were volunteers. The complaints have been forwarded to local district attorneys, he said, but it’s unclear whether the alleged deception would be a crime.

The employees told The Associated Press on Monday they were hired by Allstaff Labor Group to go door to door in the Milwaukee suburbs locating McCain supporters and distributing absentee ballot request forms. Allstaff recruited them under a contract with a consulting firm hired by the Republican Party of Wisconsin to run its absentee ballot program.

The workers claim they were told to say they were GOP volunteers even though they were getting paid $10 an hour. They were required to sign agreements stating they would not publicly discuss their work but said they decided to speak out because they were angry they had not been paid for the last few days. They claim they are owed between $200 and $300.

GOP spokeswoman Kirsten Kukowski confirmed there was a dispute over how many hours the employees worked and said the party’s vendor was working to resolve it.

She said the workers spent three weeks distributing the forms to McCain supporters around the state. The program’s managers were instructed to “accurately represent the program” to the workers, Kukowski said.

The paid employees, who were working at GOP offices alongside volunteers, may have picked up scripts intended for volunteers, she said.

“We did not instruct them to misrepresent themselves,” Kukowski wrote in an e-mail.

Allstaff representatives did not return phone messages seeking comment.

The agency was only one of many hired by GOP consulting firm Lincoln Strategy Group to run the party’s absentee ballot request distribution program.

“I told the Republican Party and Allstaff I wanted to know why we were lying to these residents,” said Loyalty Dixon, 26, who worked in Waukesha for about two weeks. “I said, `Isn’t that fraudulent?’ They didn’t give me a good explanation. They said, `You guys know you’re getting paid. Don’t worry about it.’”

She recalled getting praised by people for being a McCain supporter. Some even asked whether she was getting paid, she said.

“We had to lie to these people and say we were volunteers,” she said.

Three other employees shared similar stories.

“They had us say, `I’m volunteering for the Republican Party of Wisconsin,” said Marquis Mayes, 23. “I asked them, why would we say we were volunteers and we’re not? They didn’t have an answer for that.”

Paid GOP workers say they misled Wis. voters. News from MADISON, Wis. – Four employees hired by a temporary staffing agency to encourage absentee voting for Republican presidential candidate John McCain say they were instructed to tell people they were GOP volunteers.

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Obama votes as voters line up to cast ballots

Posted by Iflove Featured Stories on November 4, 2008 at 9:24 am

Obama votes as voters line up to cast ballots. News details: Democrat Barack Obama joined the nation’s earliest voters Tuesday as people around the nation began lining up to cast ballots in a historic election pitting Republican John McCain against the man seeking to become the first black president in U.S. history.

“I voted,” Obama said, holding up the validation slip he was handed after turning in a ballot at his Chicago neighborhood’s precinct. Accompanying the Illinois senator for the trip from their home to the polling station were his wife, Michelle, and their two young daughters. He planned a final campaign event in nearby Indiana before speaking to a massive evening rally in Chicago.

In Delaware, Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden went to the polls with his elderly mother.

McCain was expected to vote later in the morning in Arizona before taking a last-minute trek to Colorado and New Mexico.

McCain’s running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, arrived in Anchorage overnight to wait for polls to open in her hometown of Wasilla. She was to return to the airport to fly to Phoenix to join McCain in time to watch results come in.

Although the path to an Electoral College triumph appeared narrow for McCain — polls showed Obama with an advantage in many of the battleground states they have contested in the campaign’s final weeks — the Arizona senator remained hopeful for a surprise victory.

“I think these battleground states have now closed up, almost all of them, and I believe there’s a good scenario where we can win,” McCain told CBS’ “The Early Show” in an interview broadcast Tuesday.

“Look, I know I’m still the underdog, I understand that,” McCain said. “You can’t imagine, you can’t imagine the excitement of an individual to be this close to the most important position in the world, and I’ll enjoy it, enjoy it. I’ll never forget it as long as I live.”

Obama campaign manager David Plouffe said he was confident that new voters and young voters would fuel an enormous turnout to benefit the Illinois senator.

“We just want to make sure people turn out,” Plouffe told “Today” on NBC. “We think we have enough votes around the country.”

Standing in line in one of the battleground states, Ahmed Bowling of Alexandria, Va., said the election “will mark a significant change in the lives of all Americans, and so we do have to come out as early as possible to cast our votes.”

In Brooklyn, N.Y., 49-year-old Venus Kevin said the line at her precinct was “already down the block and around the corner” when she arrived shortly before 6 a.m. EST.

“Obama is the man,” said Kevin, who is black. “His message and his vision has reached a lot of people, not just African-Americans.”

The contest put the 47-year-old Obama, a first-term Illinois senator who rocketed to stardom on the power of his oratory and a call for change, against the 72-year-old McCain, a 26-year lawmaker whose mettle was tested during 5 1/2 years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.

“I’m feeling kind of fired up. I’m feeling like I’m ready to go,” Obama told nearly 100,000 people gathered for his final rally Monday night in Virginia.

“At this defining moment in history, Virginia, you can give this country the change it needs,” Obama said to voters in a state that hasn’t voted for a Democratic presidential nominee in 44 years.

The Illinois senator’s final day of campaigning was bittersweet: He was mourning the loss of his grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, who helped raise him. She died of cancer Sunday night, never to see the results of the election.

Obama votes as voters line up to cast ballots. News details: Democrat Barack Obama joined the nation’s earliest voters Tuesday as people around the nation began lining up to cast ballots in a historic election pitting Republican John McCain against the man seeking to become the first black president in U.S. history. Editing by Christina Charles

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