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What Our Google Habits Reveal About Our Voting Habits

During election season, journalists, pollsters, and pundits spend a lot of time asking independent voters, undecided voters, and swing state voters how they’re feeling about candidates. But  Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, doctoral candidate in economics at Harvard, says that if you really want to know what the average American is thinking about when it comes politics, don’t ask […]

Election Runoff

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Political Swing Dance

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Takeouts: a confident fed maintains interest rates, Tiger is back

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Revisiting Counties that Count in Pa., Va., Ind.

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What the numbers are really telling us about this historic election

Global Politics

Depending on what polls you read, the numbers suggest that Democract Barack Obama is favored over Republican John McCain. But with three weeks to Election Day, do these polls really indicate what will happen come November 4, 2008?

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Counties that count: Franklin County, Missouri, part 2

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They’re swing counties in swing states ? and they may be the spots where this election is decided. In the fourth of a series on ‘counties that count,’ The Takeaway’s Political Director Andrea Bernstein talks with voters in Franklin County, Missouri.

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Counties that count: Franklin County, Missouri

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They’re swing counties in swing states ? and they may be the spots where this election is decided. In the fourth of a series on ‘counties that count,’ The Takeaway’s Political Director Andrea Bernstein talks with voters in Franklin County, Missouri.

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Concerns about e-voting

Global Politics

London-based electronic voting expert Jason Kitcat speaks with anchor Marco Werman about flaws he’s seen in e-voting around the world and what Americans can learn from his findings.