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Turnout among young voters: 20 percent
Only about one in five people under the age of 30 voted in the mid-term elections Tuesday, says a study based on exit polls. The poor turnout among youth likely had some effect on the outcome of most races, but nowhere was this more dramatically highlighted than in the California…
Will weed be the ‘wedge issue’ that leads Dems to 2012 victory?
Facebook co-founder gives $50,000 to pot legalization effort With one eye on California’s marijuana legalization vote, Democratic strategists are sizing up the possibility of placing the issue on other state ballots as a way of helping them win tight races in 2012, reports the Wall Street Journal. Pollsters have noted…
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