Election 2008: What’s At Stake?

“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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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 long […]

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Jason Witmer and Brian Aguilar crash the SF Bay Guardian’s Super Tuesday party at the Kilowatt, a biker bar in San Francisco’s Mission District. Hear who people want as their next president and what issues matter most to them:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UMi6F60FHQ

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Jason Witmer and Brian Aguilar venture onto San Francisco’s Municipal Railway system, aiming to find out who people want as their next president and what issues matter most to them. Check it out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDP1VUyMKDI

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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.

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