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Last Updated on Tuesday, 4 November 2008 10:22 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 4 November 2008 10:22
From The Times Herald:
Pennsylvania voters also will be deciding statewide contests for state attorney general, treasurer and auditor general, as well as competitive races for the U.S. House of Representatives and the state General Assembly.
Political observers predict about 6 million Pennsylvanians — 65 percent of residents old enough to vote — will cast ballots Tuesday. The weather forecast called for cloudy skies and daytime highs in the 60s across most of the state.
“We have the potential to have the largest turnout since 1960,” said Terry Madonna, a professor and pollster at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, referring to the year that John Kennedy beat Richard Nixon. In that election, more than a decade before 18-year-olds won the right the vote, 70 percent of eligible Pennsylvanians cast ballots.