After months of speculation that the 2008 presidential election would bring out a record-breaking crowd (millions more voters), current analysis provides a very different picture.  Ed Morrissey (citing a piece from Politico) reported on the subject.  Here’s a chunk of text from Politico:

Between 60.7 percent and 61.7 percent of the 208.3 million eligible voters cast ballots this year, compared with 60.6 percent of those eligible in 2004, according to a voting analysis by American University political scientist Curtis Gans, an authority on voter turnout.