Info on Election, Knox Involvement
From: The Register Mail (Galesburg, IL)
[Galesburg Register-Mail editor Tom Martin] went through some of the percentages and vote totals locally and across the state… Precinct 13, which contains the area around Knox College, was the only precinct with less than 50 percent turnout in the city…
The Knox News Team, a group of journalism students from Knox College led by visiting Professor Sue Deans, completed a poll in October showing Galesburg voters favored Obama by a 57.7 percent. The actual total came in at 63 percent for Obama… Read more…

[Galesburg Register-Mail editor Tom Martin] went through some of the percentages and vote totals locally and across the state… Precinct 13, which contains the area around Knox College, was the only precinct with less than 50 percent turnout in the city…