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The conventional wisdom is that when you poll "all adults" as opposed to a tighter screening for "registered voters," Democrats generally do better. If that is the case, the latest poll from The Economist/YouGov is the worse news yet for a president obviously in over his head with the Russians and Syria. Obama currently sits at 38% approve/56% disapprove with all adults.

The number of Utah citizens going to the polls continues to drop. The “Salt Lake Tribune” reports that while election officials point to 80 percent voter turnout across the state, that number only reflects registered voters, and doesn’t include more than half-a-million Utahns who are eligible to vote but not registered. Overall, the number of people in the state who cast ballots in the presidential election was 57 percent. That’s basically the same number as the 2008 election, when Utah placed 9th lowest in the country in voter turnout.

An in-depth look at voter rolls across the state by a group of University of Connecticut journalism students earlier this year found that about 8,500 dead people were registered to vote, and that clerical errors made it appear that 300 of them actually had voted. A closer look by state election officials thus far has found no evidence of election fraud, though the review is ongoing. The students' effort focused attention on weaknesses in public record-keeping at the local level that allowed thousands of mistakes to go undetected. After the report appeared in The Courant in April, Secretary of the...

The most important voters in close races are the ones that candidates can count on to show up on Election Day – and seniors may just become the new "soccer moms" in this presidential election. Older Americans have the highest turnout rate of any age group – 69 percent in 2004. And they'll wield clout in this tight presidential contest because a number of the swing states, like Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, have a lot of older residents. "Despite the media's focus on the youth vote, the most influential voters in the McCain-Obama matchup are likely to have some gray...

I consider myself politically informed and I find this statement flies in the face of the conventional wisdom which is why I am posting it to breaking news.

...at least eight of the 19 hijackers who attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon three years ago were registered to vote in either Virginia or Florida while they made their preparations for 9/11. ... (excerpt - ref. full article)

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Nine out of 10 eligible Afghans have signed up for landmark October elections, the United Nations said Sunday, a resounding endorsement of a democratic experiment supposed to help Afghanistan turn its back on years of debilitating war.

<p>New Jersey added 17,600 registered voters over the past six months, but the Democratic and Republican parties saw their ranks shrink as thousands more unaffiliated voters signed onto the rolls.</p> <p>Democrats have 1.1 million voters (25 percent of the electorate), a decline of 13,571 voters since the Nov. 6 general election, according to numbers released yesterday by the state Division of Elections. Republicans have 882,168 (19 percent), a loss of 16,430.</p>