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Opinion National Exit Poll: 68% Jewish Vote for Obama
National exit polls are now saying that 68% of Jews voted for Obama – ten points behind the president’s performance in these polls four years ago. Once again, the night is young, and these figures could move. Few expect Obama to hold on to the 74% of the Jewish vote he won in 2008. The…
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Opinion Report: GOP Internal Poll Gives Obama 281
Chemi Shalev at Haaretz tweets that a rumored GOP internal exit poll “allegedly” gives Obama 281 electoral votes.
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Opinion 1st Calls: Mitt 19 electors (IN, KY), Obama 3 (VT)
7:11 pm Early returns on MSNBC: Romney projected to win Indiana (11 electoral votes) and Kentucky (8 electors). Obama projected in Vermont (3 electors). Mourdock (R) is leading Donnelly (D) 48%-46% in the Indiana Senate race, but it’s considered too close to call. In Vermont, Bernie Sanders is projected to win.
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Fast Forward South Florida Jews Go to Polls at Last
At about 10 a.m. on Election Day, a black sedan pulled up to the polling station at the J.C. Mitchell Elementary School. “He threw Israel under the bus,” said the car’s driver, a chatty silver-haired man, as he helped an elderly woman from the back seat. “You vote your way and I’ll vote mine,” she…
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Life What’s At Stake Tonight
Tonight, as we bite our nails waiting for the election results to come in, it feels to me like there’s more at stake than just the vital policy issues I blogged about this morning. Also hanging in the balance are the type of campaigns we encourage candidates to run as well as how much the…
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Fast Forward Finally! Voters Go to Polls as Election Day Dawns
Americans started to vote in a presidential election on Tuesday with polls showing President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney neck-and-neck in a race that will be decided in a handful of states. Polling stations opened across the eastern United States and parts of the Midwest as dawn broke. At least 120 million Americans…
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Life After Sandy, Why Voting Matters
If you, like me, spent any time this weekend in the areas of New York City that were ravaged by Superstorm Sandy, or if you even spent time just reading about these folks’ plight, it may be a difficult and frustrating task to turn your thoughts back to the endless media noise around the election….
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Opinion Five (Jewish) Things To Watch on Election Night
It’s Election Day at last. And as we sit down in front of the TV to watch the results (for those who actually have power), here are five Jewish points of reference on this long night of swing states, bellwether counties and exit poll results. Ohio. With polls closing at 7:30 p.m., the entire nation…
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