Posted on 10/28/2012 2:30:11 PM PDT by markomalley
The Democratic mayor of Denver said Sunday that President Obama could lose the battleground state of Wisconsin if the incumbents supporters fail to increase early voter turnout in the Badger State.
If the election was held today, President Barack Obama would lose the state of Wisconsin because where his base is, we have not turned out the vote early," Mayor Michael Hancock told a Democratic rally. "The suburbs and rural parts of Wisconsin the Republican base are voting. President Obamas base has yet to go vote.
"We've got to get our people to go vote," Hancock said.
Early voting, which began in Wisconsin on Oct. 22, is a central component of Obamas strategy to win the state. The president won Wisconsin four years ago by 14 percentage points, but recent polls show the race with Republican Mitt Romney tightening, and that is fueling Republican enthusiasm about their chances of seizing the state.
In a later interview with The Washington Examiner, Hancock said he was confident Obama would emerge from Wisconsin victorious.
Theres a great deal of enthusiasm, Hancock said. We expect clearly that President Obama will win the state of Wisconsin.
But he also said that its vital for Obamas base to make it to the polls in Wisconsin.
This is a very close race, and the point were trying to make is make sure the base shows up, turns out and begins to vote early, Hancock said. I saw where the votes were rolling in, and I said weve got to make sure that where the presidents base is, they get out and vote.
Hancock was in Wisconsin to stump for Obama, but the Obama campaign said their surrogates portrayal of where the race stands doesn't match the early voting statistics they've seen.
We are very grateful that Mayor Hancock came and did what we need to do, which is keep people enthused. He is absolutely right that we have to get our base out, Joe Zepecki, a spokesman for Obamas campaign in Wisconsin, said. But the numbers we are seeing do not back up his assessment that our base is not turning out.
Zepecki said the campaign remains optimistic nine days from Election Day.
We are seeing a lot of enthusiasm and a lot of turnout in the places where we need to see it, Zepecki said. Were very confident.
It seems Rats are under the misconception that an early cast vote is worth more than a vote cast on election day.
They do get to count twice. Vote early and often.
They’re encouraging early votes so they can devote all their efforts to driving bigger losers to the polls on election day. Also, when those early votes get counted - which could be as soon as the polls open on election day - it won’t look like a landslide against Obama.
Vans from all around the country were running 8am to 7pm non-stop and on weekends during the Walker recall. They still couldn’t get it done.
Ya mean like the Walker 8 point drubbing? :-)
My guess this is a hat tip for the nationwide sentiment. I have been saying it will be so big it will take them 20 years to recover, I guess they sense it and don't want to look like even bigger losers.
The bigger the loss, the bigger the chances people look at them as laughing stocks. Just like I heard the Line guys @ GM were making fun of Oboingo after year 1, when they make fun of you they have lost all respect for you. The Democratic Party maybe on the verge of being that bad of a Joke, and the DNC gets what a road it will be to change that going forward..
So either Dems are sand bagging or going to vote heavy for Romney.
Early votes end up in boxes that are “found” later. After they figure out how many votes they need.
The Democrats had 10 million new voters in 2008, and they won by 10 million votes. Their perception is their new voters voted early.
The Democrat belief is that Republicans have fewer new voters, and they tend to vote on election day with only a handful of absentee ballots earlier.
When the Democrats see their early voters NOT VOTING and the Republicans having a whole huge bunch of presumably new voters voting early, they assume ~ correctly ~ they are losing.
So, how did this come about ~ well, rather than deal with a Republican governor regarding government employee pensions democrats ran away ~ literally ~ and hid out in Illinois. More than likely this sent a message to their new voters that Democrat politics in Wisconsin extends no further than government employee benefits and retirement packages.
Since so many of the new voters were youth, and have spent the next 4 years unemployed, it's not all that likely they are real excited about voting for Democrats.
I tend to advise against such sweeping statements...
Obama could potentially lose ALL 57 states!
They can do like they did in 2000—give homeless people free cigarettes in return for voting. They will presumably get an additonal pack of cigarettes each additional time they vote.
It’s interesting that they think every Democrats will still vote for Obama.
Personally, I think the Democrats are going to look to get Obama out of sight and out of mind as quickly as possible. By the time 2014 rolls around, they’ll have themselves convinced that he was nothing but a jug-eared half-black quasi-Muslim who may not have been eligible to serve in the White House anyway ... as if he will no longer have had any party affiliation at all.
It seems Rats are under the misconception that an early cast vote is worth more than a vote cast on election day.
It seems to be the perfect time to commit voter fraud while no one is looking
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