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  • No other party showed such a surge in support at the high-turnout precincts, a phenomenon visible in other elections in Russia since Mr. Putin came to power.

    Russia's Dubious Vote Gregory L. White 2011

  • United Russia's strong performance in high-turnout regions could reflect concentrated pockets of enthusiastic support among disciplined voters.

    Russia's Dubious Vote Gregory L. White 2011

  • And they're more likely to not have a college degree though age explains some of that; in a particularly challenging finding for Warren, just 5% are post-graduates, compared to 28% of her likely voters; Among all registered voters, post-graduates were the only education group that favored Warren, by a whopping 54%-29%; they're typically a high-turnout group, too, but Warren apparently has few votes left to gain among them.

    Mike Mokrzycki: "Haven't Heard of Warren" - Which Way Might They Go in Mass. Senate Race? Mike Mokrzycki 2011

  • The “super-rich” (however defined) are also a miniscule amount of the population; amazing how the Dems have the Presidency and large majorities in both Houses of Congress by winning them and that remarkably high-turnout group known as poor people.

    Matthew Yglesias » Politics Without Minorities 2009

  • And they're more likely to not have a college degree though age explains some of that; in a particularly challenging finding for Warren, just 5% are post-graduates, compared to 28% of her likely voters; Among all registered voters, post-graduates were the only education group that favored Warren, by a whopping 54%-29%; they're typically a high-turnout group, too, but Warren apparently has few votes left to gain among them.

    Mike Mokrzycki: "Haven't Heard of Warren" - Which Way Might They Go in Mass. Senate Race? Mike Mokrzycki 2011

  • But being better organized and more established than Mourdock, Lugar likely retains the edge if the Indiana primary becomes a high-interest, high-turnout affair, pushed along by an ongoing presidential nomination contest.

    HUFFPOST HILL - Guy Who Replaced Rahm Leaving Eliot Nelson 2012

  • Independent poll watchers from Demos, a nonpartisan think tank, found that elections officials "confronted a formidable challenge in implementing a whole variety of election changes in a high-profile, high-turnout primary election" and "performed fairly well."

    D.C. Council hearing sums up election: Poor training and preparation Mike DeBonis 2010

  • Independent poll watchers from Demos, a nonpartisan think tank, found that elections officials "confronted a formidable challenge in implementing a whole variety of election changes in a high-profile, high-turnout primary election" and "performed fairly well."

    D.C. Council hearing sums up election: Poor training and preparation Mike DeBonis 2010

  • Independent poll watchers from Demos, a nonpartisan think tank, found that elections officials "confronted a formidable challenge in implementing a whole variety of election changes in a high-profile, high-turnout primary election" and "performed fairly well."

    D.C. Council hearing sums up election: Poor training and preparation Mike DeBonis 2010

  • And they're more likely to not have a college degree though age explains some of that; in a particularly challenging finding for Warren, just 5% are post-graduates, compared to 28% of her likely voters; Among all registered voters, post-graduates were the only education group that favored Warren, by a whopping 54%-29%; they're typically a high-turnout group, too, but Warren apparently has few votes left to gain among them.

    Mike Mokrzycki: "Haven't Heard of Warren" - Which Way Might They Go in Mass. Senate Race? Mike Mokrzycki 2011

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