Posted on 10/31/2010 9:32:49 PM PDT by fightinJAG
About 950,000 voters have already cast their ballots in North Carolina, according to state data released Sunday that shows an early Republican surge in voting has been matched by late strength at the polls among registered Democrats.
An Associated Press analysis of the state's voter database shows more than 15 percent of North Carolina's registered voters have made their selections. Early voting in the state ended Saturday, and mail-in absentee ballots continue to arrive ahead of Tuesday's election.
About 46 percent of ballots cast have come from registered Democrats, while 36 percent are from registered Republicans. The advantage for Democrats has steadily widened since the first days of early voting began about two weeks ago, when Republicans were trailing by just a few percentage points.
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and 25% of the registered democrats are dead...
15% were illegal aliens.
So..ah...how do we know that those DemocRATS voted for DemocRATS.
IMHO, this “early voting” phenomenon is an open invitation to fraud.
What I am interested in is the difference between the early voting for the GOP now and in 2008.
North Carolina Republican Party spokesman Jordan Shaw said he doesn’t necessarily put a lot of weight in the numbers of partisan turnout so far. He said some of the voters they targeted to get out early were Democrats who were leaning toward voting for the GOP, and he noted that Republicans performed better in early voting than years past.
“They have much less of a head start on us than they normally do,” Shaw said. “That bodes well for us on Tuesday.”
I guess all the Independents fell over dead.
LOL! Great point!
Yes, excellent point!
Voter Registration as of 10/31/2010 Democratic: 2,764,304 Republican: 1,956,293.
Democrats have almost 18% more registered voters in NC than Repubs.
Now, look at the numbers.
My husband's entire family (except for him) are Democrats, they are all voting Republican :)
http://www.redstate.com/brad_smith/2010/10/16/some-early-voting-numbers/
"In North Carolina, the breakdown on ballots returned by party registration so far is 42.2% Democratic, 40.2% Republican, and 17.5% Independent. This compares to a 2008 breakdown of 55.9% Democratic, 27.1% Republican, and 17.0% Independent.
There are several other states that ultimately report early voting data by party registration, but they’ve not yet checked in."
The Dems are miles behind compared to 2008.
There actually are still a fair number of conservative Democrats here. If I recall correctly, somewhere around 25% are likely to vote Republican in US House, Senate or Presidential races. State and local is a different matter, and so is an unpopular Republican candidate. McCain’s slam on evangelicals in South Carolina during his previous run didn’t go over well at all, and memories are long. Much has been written about Obama winning the state and why, but this was part of it and is generally not recognized.
The GOP should well enough to take over the statehouse. And unlike in most states, the Governor has no say in redistricting. I expect several GOP pickups in North Carolina in 2012 if that happens.
It’s high time we shed our Reconstruction government in NC, don’t you think?
That makes more sense now.
I voted in the Democratic Primary....more interesting races to influence there. That does not mean I am a Democrat.
I certainly hope you recall correctly. Lots of folks in NC hang on to their Democrat registration like it's a religion.
In Texas, for the first time we had more voters in the Republican primary than the DemocRAT. All statewide elected offices are held by Republicans. The strength at the top of the ticket is now helping us in south Texas to make inroads at the county level. In Nueces county which is majority Hispanic, if the polling data is accurate, we are on the verge of sweeping out DemocRATS from county wide offices. We're possibly going to elect a Republican to the 27th congressional district. As more Republicans get elected to local office, more voters are attracted to the Republican primary, and the DemocRAT primary voters start looking more like national DemocRATS and nominate more left wing candidates.
I’m afraid that without Helms, the NC GOP is hopelessly moribund.
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