For 2008, voters added the Geico caveman and the Serta sheep to the ranks of characters.
LAST week the Supreme Court heard a case challenging an affirmative-action ban that Michigan voters added to their state constitution in 2006.
Most voters added that they found his comments offensive and do not believe his ideas represent the Republican party at large.
DAVENPORT, Iowa — Senator Barack Obama and former Senator John Edwards, two Democratic presidential candidates courting many of the same undecided Iowa voters, added to their efforts Monday to distinguish between each other on the issue of reducing special-interest influence in Washington.
Anna Greenberg, a Democratic pollster who says Mr. Bush has already suffered erosion with these voters, added, "I think Bush is still going to win rural areas, but he needs to win them at the margins he won in the past".
More than 38,000 of the 110,000 voters added to registration rolls between 2004 and 2007 were identified as Russian, Korean, Chinese or Muslim — a group made up primarily of immigrants from South Asian countries like India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
In Philadelphia, election officials report the greatest surge of registrations in 21 years, resulting in more than 70,000 new voters added to the rolls since April, with growth heaviest in African-American sections.
Voters added gay men and lesbians to the state's anti-discrimination law in 2005, after rejecting a similar amendment by a people's veto in 1998 and 2000.
If we rerun the 2012 election with the center's new eligible voters added in, and apportion the voters in each demographic group to Mitt Romney and Mr. Obama according to exit polls, we can get a rough sense for how big an effect these new voters might have.
But he said Democratic primary elections often skewed toward the most liberal voters, adding that Mr. de Blasio, who is banking on union support and voters outside Manhattan, had "already got a base of credentials upon which he can move as far to the left as he needs to, in order to separate himself from the other Democratic candidates".
