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There has been much said about the power of Obama's network in this election. In fact, many of his voters were of the 18-24 demographic. But new numbers are showing that young voters only increased by about 1% in this election over 2004 (from 17 to 18%). Similarly, according to MSNBC's latest analysis, Barack Obama won "without generating a significantly higher percentage of black voters than Joh…