Nearly 200,000 Iowans have already voted (460000 in 2004 voted early - big drop-off)

crAP ^ | 10/8/08 | Mike Glover (propagandist)

[Ravi]

DES MOINES - Though the election is still a month away, nearly 200,000 Iowans have already cast their ballots and the pace of early voting is likely to quicken beginning this week, election officials said.

Still, the pace of early voting isn't keeping pace with the election four years ago when groups such as MoveOn.org made absentee voting a centerpiece of their strategy

[Ravi]

Now last election, I remember hearing that Kerry beat Bush by like 54 to 43 in the early voting and then Bush made it up on election day to win Iowa. This is very good news if Obama is still down 260000 votes in early voting. You can sense worry reading between the lines.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Vote Early and Vote Often!

[DemonDeac]

What may tip Iowa to BHO is his support of the farm bill. Folks love free money and its hard to win that state if you don’t back welfare for farmers.

[Ravi]

that goes for us too right.

[Ravi]

that will be a hill to climb but I trust Iowans.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Yup! ;o)

[trumandogz]

200,000 or 20,000,000 Iowans can vote early and McCain will still lose the state.

Ohio, different story.

[GOP_Raider]

Folks love free money and its hard to win that state if you don’t back welfare for farmers.

Correct, BHO has funded and/or been on the ethanol bandwagon 'til the cows come home (if you'll pardon the expression).

[Crimson Elephant]

It is amazing how all the actual stories of registration/early voting isn’t matching the Obama tidal wave claims.

Thus far anyway.

[Ravi]

This plus ohio also.

[snarkytart]

Ohio’s early voting is light too, according to the news.

[Hildy]

There ain’t going to be much free money anymore.

[babydubya1981]

I don’t get this early voting. Is voting open now until election day? If so, doesn’t that increase voter fraud?

[snarkytart]

Did you just miss the point of this thread?

Maybe?

[GoSarah]

IMO the 2008 turnout will be amazingly low.

[TheEaglehasLanded]

Hope it’s not Pubs not showing up to vote absentee, Ohio’s numbers seem strange with on 10,000 voting in a week statewide. Seems like someone is sandbaggin.

[The_Republican]

Maybe because its not a battle ground state anymore?

[cherry]

For a national election, there should be the same rules for everybody...this counting early, no id, no SS number, register and vote on the same day if not the same hour is all designed to steal elections from the people that are the actual qualified voters......

they are disenfranchising legit voters....

[snarkytart]

It wasn’t a battleground in 2004 either.

[DemonDeac]

“There ain’t going to be much free money anymore.”

Don’t worry. Politicians will find more. McCain and Obama both promised hundreds of billions of new spending last night.