Obama’s turnout historical in numbers, diversity
The estimated 136 million Americans who voted are part of a radical transformation of American politics – not just in terms of ideology and party identification
New York
The turn-out was record high. The voters: a rich palate of American diversity – women, blacks, Hispanics, whites – young people and old.
They made history – redrawing the nation’s electoral map, turning red states blue, and confounding the cynics as they elected the nation’s first African-American President.
An estimated 136 million Americans – as many as 66 percent, the most since 1908 – pulled a lever, touched a screen, or filled in ballot. They are part of a radical transformation of American politics – not just in terms of ideology and party identification. It goes much further than that.
President-elect Barack Obama, harnessing the lightening speed of digital technology, tapped a new generation of young people, inspiring them to work, knock on doors, make phone calls, convince their parents, friends, neighbors, and grandparents that there was something in America still worth fighting for.
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