Nov 5th, 2008 | Election survey

Was the record voter turnout a result of the given candidates?


136.6 million Americans voted in this presidential election of 2008. This is a 64.1% turnout rate. The highest seen in the country since the 1908 presidential election between William Howard Taft and William Jennings Bryan.


Was the record voter turnout a result of the given candidates?


By Johnson
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Poll tags:Election, President, Voter

 
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Philgtaylor
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Philgtaylor
Australia

posted Nov 5th, 2008 at 14:55 CST

It was both. People (especially the young) were sick of Bush, and found an alternative in Obama.

Kookie.lee
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Kookie.lee
Australia

posted Nov 5th, 2008 at 14:03 CST

It was due to quite a few factors, largely influenced by the billions of dollars poured into the campaign, media hype, and concentrated doorknocking of those that cocObamanut professes to represent.
 
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