whenever i have like 5 minutes left of class and i wanan get in some last-minute netp
 

horia posting or reading or newspaper reading or whatever, my roommate always thinks it's the perfect time to start talking to me. never fucking fails. i'm trying to read the washington post and finish before i have to go to class, and she asks me a question and i answer her and she continues staring at me until i give a detailed response it's so fucking annoying.

i was trying to read this
 

Voter Turnout Rises a Little
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS


Filed at 10:34 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Tight races in several states apparently attracted more voters to the polls this year than in the last midterm election, but not by much.

Curtis Gans, director of the independent Committee for the Study of the American Electorate, estimated turnout Tuesday at 77 million, more than 39 percent of the voting-age citizens.

In the 1998 elections, the figure was 37.6 percent -- the lowest midterm turnout since 1942.

Twenty-eight states had higher turnouts this year and 22 states and the District of Columbia had lower turnouts.

Gans attributed the higher turnout to the tight races and mobilization efforts. Democrats had hoped to build on their success in getting out the vote in the last election, while the GOP tried to emulate the success of Democrats and organized labor.

In some cases, President Bush's personal popularity and his campaigning may have been factors, Gans said.

``The Republicans nationalized the campaign and the Democrats did not,'' he said.

Gans said Florida had a record-high turnout, at least 6 percent higher than in 1998, because of Bill McBride's spirited, but unsuccessful, challenge to Republican Gov. Jeb Bush.

A close Senate race in New Hampshire drove turnout to more than 48 percent, about 12 percent higher than in 1998.

Turnout rose 6 percentage points in Missouri because of another close contest for the Senate and 5 percentage points in Massachusetts because of a hard-fought governor's race, he said.

More voters also went to the polls in Tennessee, Oklahoma and Delaware, but that may be because the last midterm election had no major issues or contests, he said.

or maybe there are still institutional barriers that prevent minorities/lower-class people from voting :O:O:O