“Super Tuesday” could be called “Super January” in California, where as many half of registered voters may have voted by mail instead of going in person to polling places. About 5 million vote-by-mail ballots, formerly called “absentee ballots,” were issued for this primary election, according to Steven J. Ybarra, a former chair of the Chicano [...]
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Voters make eleventh hour decisions in Los Angeles
February 6, 2008 – 3:35 pm
Barack Obama’s campaign didn’t open the doors to its Super Tuesday celebration at the Avalon until 8:30 p.m. to make sure volunteers were still out working the polls, and maybe with good reason. Both Democrats and Republicans leaving polling places on the east side of Los Angeles on Tuesday say they chose a candidate not [...]
Super Tuesday in Oakland
February 5, 2008 – 8:40 pm
Larry Santana and Sean Aronson traveled to two communities separated by economic and demographic identity: Piedmont, an affluent community near Oakland, and East Oakland, a neighborhood anything but affluent, to gauge voter reactions. Here’s what we found. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C
