Reply #44: TwilightZone is right - it did occur, and it cost us dearly [View All]

[southlandshari]

Here is a Bloomberg article on the surge in voter turnout and how it played in different states.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aoLXKdg1jbi0&refer=us

Excerpt:

"Seventy-one percent of eligible voters this year registered, the most since 72.1 percent in 1964. Almost 15 million more Americans voted in 2004 than in the 2000 election, when 105.4 million voted, according to the report.

Six states -- Georgia, Virginia, Florida, South Carolina, Tennessee and Alabama -- reached all-time highs for voter turnout in this election, the report said. All of those states backed Bush. The District of Columbia, which backed Kerry, also had record turnout.

Voter turnout in states that were capable of swinging either way, such as Pennsylvania and Ohio, and in uncontested states such as Georgia and California, was more pronounced among Republicans.

The number of Republican voters increased by an average of 4.4 percentage points in swing states and by 3.9 percentage points in others. Democratic turnout rose 3.6 percentage points in swing states and by 1.5 percentage points elsewhere, the report said."