The director of Barquisimeto hospital, Ruy Medina, put the death toll at 54, Venezuela's Clarin newspaper reported.

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Hospital director Ruy Medina told AFP news agency that some 90 people were injured, mostly from gunshot wounds.

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Ruy Teixeira, a political scientist at the left-leaning Centre for American Progress, forecasts increases in the minority and youth vote, and declines in the white working-class vote in the Midwest, the rust belt and the south-west.

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And a group of Democratic pollsters, including Stanley Greenberg and Ruy Teixeira, argued forcefully that the real swing voters in this election are not suburban professionals but the 55% of the population who belong to the white working class.

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Ruy Teixeira, the author of a forthcoming book on America's forgotten majority, points out that the most important group of independent voters is the white working class, the people who regard the Republicans as agents of the rich but worry that the Democrats have been taken over by weirdos.

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People linger delightedly at the Hotel Habitat by Enric Ruiz-Geli with Cloud 9 Acconci Studio and Ruy Ohtake, a miniature simulacrum of a proposed four-star hotel for Barcelona covered with a web of 5, 000 winking light-emitting diodes, or LEDS, powered by solar cells for a nighttime display of glowing colors.

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