Voter turnout.

[Barotix]

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/20 ... r-than-04/

The report released Thursday estimates that between 126.5 and 128.5 million Americans cast ballots in the presidential election earlier this week[..]
In 2004, 122 million Americans voted in the general election.

1% increase. The promise of Change and Maverickyness only made a 1% difference.

[heroo]

After 8 years of Bush adminstration, I thought more people would turn up for this election.

[Reise]

Turnout in my state actually dropped about 500 voters. Lots of absentee votes too.

[Du De Wei]

my guess is most mccain supporters didnt bother voting probably because they didnt think they would win the election or they didnt like mccain and wouldve rather voted for someone else

[Barotix]

Compared to 2004, Republican turnout declined by 1.3 percentage points to 28.7 percent, while Democratic turnout increased by 2.6 points from 28.7 percent in 2004 to 31.3 percent in 2008.

1.3% and 2.6%

[tedtwilliger]

To get a general understanding of the situation, anyone know how many registered voters there are in America? Or people over 21 (legal age?)

[Reise]

To get a general understanding of the situation, anyone know how many registered voters there are in America? Or people over 21 (legal age?)

I remember reading somewhere around 80% of registered voters actually voted.

[chesticles]

6mil more is alot of people if u think about it that way

[l05tfr33k7]

ya i laughed at the turnout also. but i think the young voter tournout did increase a decent number but much of the republican base stayed home.

[mimiskis]

obama had won at 11 PM and polls were still running till the next day i wouldnt bother voting if he had won already