Posted on 11/04/2014 12:28:55 PM PST by Red Steel
A Colorado reader digests the latest early voting numbers:
Dems had better get a huge turnout advantage on election day. If the election were based on the votes through yesterday afternoon, they would need to carry Independents by 65-35 to make up the difference (now, I realize that some GOP voters will go Dem, and Dem voters will go GOP, so this might not be completely accurate, but it’s close).
To put this in perspective, according to the SoS numbers as of the end of October, here is what voter registration looks like:
Total: 2,986,362
GOP 966,082 (32.3%)
Dem: 913,246 (30.5%)
So, 49 percent of registered voters have already voted. When pundits project 2.1M voters in Colorado, that would mean 70.3 percent turnout. That seems awfully high in a non-presidential year. So, yesterday I said that perhaps 2/3 have already voted, but it may be higher than that.
Interjection from Jim: This is the first year Colorado has used vote by mail and so we should expect turnout to be significantly higher than past cycles. Oregon enjoyed turnout of 70 percent (2006) to 86 percent (2004) in its elections.
GOP turnout percentage is +8.1 points, while Dem turnout is +1.6 points.
GOP has turned out 61.1% of its registered voters, Dems have turned out 51.5%, while Others is much lower, at 36.4%. So, could we be looking at an election where (i) both the GOP and Dems do pretty well with turnout of their respective voters, (ii) GOP does better by 5-10 points (in % of RVs turned out) because the GOP is more motivated (we’ve seen numbers in this range in polling of voter enthusiasm), and (iii) the Independents don’t turn out at nearly the same rate, and their turnout is much more in line with what one would expect for a mid-term election, or at a time when neither party is terribly well liked?
One figure working for the Republicans in Colorado: “Mail ballots have to arrive by 7:00 on election night. It doesn’t matter when they’re post-marked.” In some other states, such as Iowa, ballots will be accepted in the days after the election if they were postmarked one day before the election.
Colorado also permits residents to register to vote today and cast legal ballots.
Yes, but how many ballots does each Demonicrat get to cast compared to each Republican.
libertarians were all at home high?
One of the most egregious bills the Colorado Democrats steamrolled through during the power-drunk orgy of a couple of years back was called by one senator, the democrat voter fraud act. It invites the steeling of elections and voter mischief. With same day registration, mail in ballots sent to wrong address’s, no id checks, no crosschecking on where or if the same day registrant has not same day registered in another place, ballot harvesting and no real resident checks, the table is set for the highjacking of fair elections. The democrats rigged the system to cheat. If the republicans manage to overcome the chicanery and win, repealing of the democrat voter fraud act should be done in the first week, repeal of gun legislation on the second.
Just Wow. that is very good. It is hard to turn all of your people out.
LOL
Let's see if they get the other 60% today.
I don’t think the dems will opt for voter fraud this time around. They seem inclined to lose this time around and be ok with it. I’m trying to come up with a good reason for it, and the best I can get is (1) that it gives them the opening to blame republicans for something that is going to happen, or (2) it gives them a chance to get a ‘fixed’ obamacare bill on the desk of the president for him to sign in a ‘great display of bipartisanship’.
“Cue the usual crew to opine that this is just a ruse and voter fraud is going to steal it.”
Here you go:
http://gazette.com/scattered-election-computer-problems-reported-in-colorado/article/1540777
It’s like...MAGIC.
I dropped off my husband’s ballot today in Colorado Springs, and the line to drop off at the library was really long. I’m going to guess 30 cars long? I had business in the area a few hours later and when I went past later, the line was equally long.
Finally, the lady I lunched with had been there before the lunch hour, and it was packed.
This is easily the most conservative county in the state, so I am feeling hopeful right now.
Unless I am mistaken, there are no polling places open. This is mailed ballot only.
I don't think the Dems did very well out there. Just a suspicion.
I should explain that was in a very little place in northern Idaho.
It is impossible to underestimate just how white-hot angry people in Colorado were after the Democrats crammed through the anti-gun legislation last year. They have not forgotten. I hope some lessons are learned tonight.
Colorado also permits residents to register to vote today and cast legal ballots.
I could be wrong, I don't live in CO
Reps have now increased their ballot count over Dems to ~125,000.
“Cue the usual crew to opine that this is just a ruse and voter fraud is going to steal it.”
Only the Good Lord knows how many surrender monkeys and DU defeatist infiltrators we have running around FR telling us that we’re doomed. These pimples on our butts want to surrender because one or two elections haven’t turned around 50 years of leftist fascism.
We not only need to defeat our external enemies, we also need to defeat the little girls running around here, flapping their arms like chickens.
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