Prisjämförelser USA-valet: rekord i Kalifornien: 13,6 miljoner väntas rösta
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Trots att Barack Obama kommer att vinna Kalifornien med bred marginal så väntas rekordmånga kalifornienbor rösta i år
20% av valdeltagarena väntas vara under 35, 40: och 50:talisterna kommer att utgöra ytterligare 34% och endast 19 % kommer att vara 65 eller äldre. Något som förvånat eftersom det just brukar vara de äldre väljarna som är de som röstar mest troget .
John Wildermuth skriver i San Francisco Chronicle om valet i Kalifornien: Record 13.6 million expected to vote in state
A record 13.6 million California voters are expected to cast ballots in today’s election, a 78.9 percent turnout that would be the largest in more than three decades, a new Field Poll predicted.
The presidential race between Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain is attracting most of the attention, but a dozen statewide ballot measures, topped by a proposed ban on same-sex marriage, also are boosting turnout.
“That’s over a million more voters than we had in 2004, which was the previous record,” said Mark DiCamillo, the poll’s director. “This is representative democracy in action.”
Throughout California, nearly 3.8 million of the state’s registered 17.3 million voters had cast ballots by mail or at early voting sites as of Friday. That’s a 22 percent turnout, and hundreds of thousands of early ballots are still to be counted. About 53 percent of this year’s votes are expected to be cast at the polls today.
En bidragande orsak till det höga valdetagandet är mormonkyrkan och den Kristna Högerns Jihad mot könsneutrala äktenskap här i Kaliifornen, ett brutalt frontalangrepp mot hela det öppna och toleranta Kaliforniska samhället. Ställningen är oerhört jämn men med litet tur bör Jihadisterna förlora.
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