I thought this passage from Chris Bowers was fascinating:
When the final totals are made, there will have been 26 million more votes in 2008 than 2000. That increase is in excess of 100% of the nation’s population increase during the last eight years. Overall, more than 131 million people voted, or 61.6% of the voting [...] Read more »

With all the money and effort being spent this year to register voters, I just wanted to take a step back and ask - is this really necessary? From wikipedia:
Laws requiring individual voters to register, as opposed to having the government register people automatically, have a strong correlation with lower numbers of people turning out [...] Read more »