Posted on 10/14/2008 1:49:35 PM PDT by NYC_BULLMOOSE
Polling News & Notes Overlooked Recent Polling And Insights • October 9, 2008 How Many Votes Will Be Cast Before Election Day? Every state allows voters to mail in absentee ballots, but more and more states are allowing voters to cast ballots in person before the election, a process known as “early voting.” Twelve states allowed early voting in 2004; 34 states and the District of Columbia will have an early voting process this year. Ten of this year’ battleground states have early voting, and five of them did in 2004, with between 31% and 52% of all of the ballots cast in the general election coming before Election Day.
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You can't "come back from behind" if this many voters have already cast ballots...
Anybody see any silver-lining here?
IGNORE Karl Rove please! His analysis was flawed in 2000 and 2004 and cost us in 2006. If he said the sky was blue I would go check.
JOIN THOSE INVOKING GOD'S BLESSINGS ON OUR NATION THIS 2008 ELECTION
But I'm not buyin' the push polls, which are heavily weighted in their sampling to the dems...and neither should anyone else. They are simply an attempt for the most part, IMHO, to supress the GOP vote.
On the ground, the crowds that Sarah is drawing now (30,000 in FL, 24,000 coming in Indiana, etc.), tell the real stroy...and the DNC, MSM, and Obama's campaign know it.
...and then there is this:
People who vote early are probably those whose mind is firmly made up, so you couldn't sway them to the other side. For our side, which is a lot more finicky, some 12th hour stunt by Obama wouldn't affect votes already cast.
The WSJ is calling for a federal investigation of ACORN and ties Obama to the whole mess.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122394051071230749.html
Don’t be so sure about early voting. In 2004 if I recall correctly Bush was way behind in early voting in FL. The couple of weeks before election day was filled with sights of long lines at early voting sites all over florida. More than one story ran that the early voting was heavily in favor of Kerry. But on election day, of course Bush won.
The early voters are partisans who already know who they are voting for. I will be doing it myself next week when my state begins early voting.
My recollection is that this happened in both Florida and Georgia, both of which Bush ended up winning comfortably. I'm going to ping two persons who may have already pointed this out to me yesterday, with apologies in advance if I am confusing them with someone else.
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Oh Come on! Everybody knows that the Florida Dibold machines were programmed to give Bush 3 votes for each 1 cast and to give Kerry half for each he got.
LOL
Oop. Cut myself off. Note that the 35-50% figure Rove cites was a year that W won. Whole lotta votin’ left...
I will be pleasantly surprised if McCAin wins, but I dont have my hopes to high. I am voting and am urging all I know to vote McCain. I just see to many people seeing McCain as another 4 years. Not really interested in the details just they want something different.
McCain and Palin need to take it to the people like they have been doing lately. Screw the media and Washington. Take it to the people.
I’m afraid it’s over.
Get set for a bumpy four years!
Yes - only committed voters will vote early. The soft voters will wait until the last minute to make a firm and final decision.
“You can’t “come back from behind” if this many voters have already cast ballots...”
This many voters have already cast ballots for who, BO? I know several McCain supporters who have voted early.
Don’t forget the military votes .....
Bless our military. I don’t know what the ratio is McCain/BO, but I’m sure most of them realize what a BO presidency would mean to our national security.
My wife and I voted last week here in Virginia and I can assure you that B. Hussein Obama was not the candidate either of us voted for.
Jack
New York City - hey! Didn't at least one of the domestic terrorist Bill Ayers' bombs go off there?!? Wow, talk about being concerned...
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