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Who Expected 140 Million Votes?

By The Daily Dish

Dec 4 2008, 11:03 AM ET

That's the assumption behind disappointment at the 2008 turnout final results and results in Bloomberg sentences like this:

Still, turnout fell short of the 140 million voters many experts had forecast.

Mark Blumenthal tries to find any evidence that those experts existed.



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