Nov 11th, 2008 · There were not many more voters casting ballots in the 2008 presidential election than during the last presidential election in 2004. Curtis Gans, director of American University's Center for the Study of the American Electorate, sorts through the numbers.
Nov 11th, 2008 · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is an unlikely best-seller — it's the first book in a trilogy of thrillers written by Stieg Larsson, a previously unknown Swedish journalist who died of a heart attack in 2004.
Nov 10th, 2008 · The New York Times reported Monday that a 2004 classified order authorized the U.S. military to attack the al Qaeda network throughout the world. Mark Mazetti, co-author of the article, discusses the undisclosed attacks that took place.
Nov 8th, 2008 · Rural voters have been considered reliably Republican since Bush won their support in the 2000 and 2004. But this election, Obama was able to win over rural voters who don't place a high priority on social issues and are concerned about the economy and the war in Iraq.
Nov 5th, 2008 · In 2004, Ohio went President Bush's way. This year, the Buckeye State went in the win column for Democrat Barack Obama. Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland tells Steve Inskeep that one reason Obama carried the state is that he visited it many times.
Nov 5th, 2008 · People across the country are waking up to the news that Democrat Barack Obama is president-elect. Matthew Dowd is an independent political strategist, and was the chief strategist to the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign in 2004. He tells Renee Montagne that young people are voting Democratic and that's hurting the GOP.
Nov 4th, 2008 · Cuyahoga County in Ohio had huge voting problems in the 2004 and 2006 elections. Since then, it's made many changes to voting rules and machinery. Poll workers have to take a class to learn about the changes since the last election in order to be eligible to work.
Nov 3rd, 2008 · The social issues that dominated much of the 2004 presidential campaign have been pushed off the national stage by the plummeting economy. But those issues have not gone away — they've just moved over to hotly contested ballot initiatives in several states.