http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/earlyvoting/ en-us Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:30:23 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2135588/posts MIAMI (AP) — More Floridians voted for John McCain than Barack Obama on Election Day, but the Democrat sealed his victory in the state by winning more early and absentee votes. An Associated Press study of 94 percent of the state's total shows that the Republican beat Obama by almost 5 percentage points on Nov. 4, but Obama trumped McCain by 11 percentage points in early and absentee balloting. Overall, Obama beat McCain 51.4 percent to 48.6 percent in Florida, becoming only the third Democrat in 11 presidential elections to carry the state. AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2135588/posts#comment Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:30:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2137808/posts Early voting in Presidential elections should be made illegal because it is against the Constitution that specifies one day to be Pesidential elections day which is the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November. I strongly believe that one of the most important factors if not the most important factor that we lost this elections is due to early voting. It is a certain way for cheating and fraud. Most of the battleground states were lost because of the early voting. The democrats amassed the necessary votes in the early voting to win. That is how they won Ohio,... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2137808/posts#comment Tue, 25 Nov 2008 03:06:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2131575/posts In 2008, millions of early voters cast their ballots without being aware of relevant and possibly vote-altering revelations about Barack Obama that came out during the final few weeks. These would include the untraceable card contributions mentioned earlier; Obama’s previously unreported January statement that his cap-and-trade plan would “bankrupt” new coal plants; and his “spread the wealth” statement to Joe the Plumber, combined with subsequently disclosed similar sentiments going back at least 12 years. Not that you’ll ever get many voters to acknowledge that they made the wrong decisions — the marketers call that “cognitive dissonance” — but given the... Pajamas Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2131575/posts#comment Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:27:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2127293/posts "The Obama camp recognized that something very different was going on here. It threw out many of the old political adages and assumptions, including the granddaddy of them all, Americans don’t tune into elections until after Labor Day. Obama’s campaign geared its online and off-line engagement and advertising to build on this unprecedented early interest and mobilized it into an effective ground game to get out their vote." The Extreme Mortman http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2127293/posts#comment Thu, 6 Nov 2008 21:14:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2124068/posts All of the MSM/Liberal University poll heavily oversample Democratic voters on the premise Democrats are so enthused over Obama they will turnout in record numbers, whereas Republicans are so discouraged and/or disgusted with Bush/McCain they will not vote in similar proportions. This is a critical assumption. If it is not correct, the polls will significantly overstate Mr. Obama's expected vote totals.Early voting data released by the Texas Secretary of State for the 15 counties with the largest population shows the MSM polling assumption is dead WRONG. In fact, the opposite of what should have happened under the MSM scenario took... Texas Secretary of State http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2124068/posts#comment Mon, 3 Nov 2008 23:24:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2123961/posts 11.03.08-15:30: All polls are well within the margin of error and undecided voters. The +1.8 is the lowest lead Obama has held since McCain’s polling numbers went negative after the economic collaspe. - FlA FOX News/Rasmussen: 11/02 - 11/02 McCain +1 Reuters/Zogby: 10/30 - 11/02 Obama +2 Quinnipiac: 10/27 - 11/02 Obama +2 11.03.08-10:00: In all battleground states McCain is now within the margin of error and undecided voters +/-. RCP had a big shift to undecided voters, from NObama, in their EC projection this morning. The Florida early voting exit public polls are dramatically different, +Obama, than our internal... Real Clear Politics/FlAttorney et. al. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2123961/posts#comment Mon, 3 Nov 2008 21:35:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2123930/posts Tuesday is the official election day, but nearly 1.6 million Coloradans have already cast their ballots, which amounts to almost half of all registered voters. Denver Business Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2123930/posts#comment Mon, 3 Nov 2008 21:06:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2123323/posts In a recent spate of op-ed pieces in the Jerusalem Post, Congressman Howard Berman (D-Cal), Clinton Ambassador Martin Indyk, Carter advisor Stuart Eizenstat and a who's who of other liberal Jewish Democrats claim Barack Obama is better for Israel than John McCain. They are all friends of Israel, but their allegiance to the Democratic Party seemingly takes precedence over their concern for Israel's safety. For Americans who have chosen to live in Israel, the candidates' Israel positions are not matters of party loyalty or cheap rhetoric. They are matters of life and death. That may explain why, in spite of... The Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2123323/posts#comment Mon, 3 Nov 2008 12:02:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2123294/posts Democrats are touting early leads in turnout for early voting in Florida. But a new poll that counts actual votes cast in the early balloting gives Sen. John McCain a four point lead among those who have already voted in the Sunshine State. The Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll of early voters shows McCain ahead 49-45%.Democrats outnumber Republicans by 54-30% in the party identification of early voters, according to figures released by the Democratic Party of Florida. Those numbers are not showing up in the voting this far. More good news for McCain can be found in the the absentee vote... Political Machine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2123294/posts#comment Mon, 3 Nov 2008 10:16:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2123213/posts -snip- Obama holds a wide lead over John McCain among those who say they have already voted (32% of all likely voters) or say they plan to vote before Election Day (7%). However, it is not quite as large as it was a week ago. More significant, the race is about even among voters who plan to vote on Election Day: 46% support McCain while 45% favor Obama. Pew http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2123213/posts#comment Mon, 3 Nov 2008 05:23:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2123066/posts So I went to go see what the DUmmies were up to... to give me an idea of McCain's place in polls..... someone posted this. http://elections.gmu.edu/early_vote_2008.html the numbers are scary... any idea if they are true? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2123066/posts#comment Mon, 3 Nov 2008 02:33:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2122888/posts Alameda, San Francisco, Santa Clara, Contra Costa and Marin Counties are expecting long lines again today for people wanting to vote early for the November 4 election. A record number of people are voting early this year. San Francisco Department of Elections reports that over 21% of registered voters for the November 4 election have already casts their ballots. This weekend lines have wrapped around county election offices with waits up to an hour to be able to vote. Offices will be open again today to handle the crowds of early voters. NBC11 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2122888/posts#comment Sun, 2 Nov 2008 23:26:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2122139/posts the mass of rats who've come from under the woodwork and don't know anything about the issues and are voting because of the bandwagon effect....worries me. Youtube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2122139/posts#comment Sun, 2 Nov 2008 00:38:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2122124/posts More than a third of registered voters already have cast a ballot More than a third of El Paso County's nearly 400,000 registered voters took advantage of the chance to vote early, with record numbers casting ballots ahead of Election Day or sending them in by mail. Voters on long lines Friday that snaked through the lobby of Centennial Hall and past storefronts in The Citadel mall and Chapel Hills Mall praised election workers for how smoothly it ran despite waits of up to three hours to cast a ballot. The large numbers who voted early were no guarantee there... The Gazette http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2122124/posts#comment Sun, 2 Nov 2008 00:15:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2121902/posts Early and Absentee Votes November 4, 2008 http://www.state.tn.us/sos/election/Early%20Voting%20Nov%202008.pdf http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2121902/posts#comment Sat, 1 Nov 2008 19:29:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2121671/posts The old records are on the floor, stomped into dust by a constant parade of early voters who, even before one vote has been counted, have made this an election year for the books. Early voting ended in North Texas on Friday much as it began 11 days ago, with long lines of people filing into polling places to cast ballots in what many called the biggest election of their lives. [Snip] With 967,000 registered voters, Tarrant [County] can boast that nearly half of them have already been to the polls. Mr. Raborn said his county was on pace to... Dallas Morning News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2121671/posts#comment Sat, 1 Nov 2008 14:28:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2121435/posts Big turnout meant big lines on the last day of early voting in Colorado. Thousands of people lined up at the three voting locations in Colorado Springs. Wait times exceeded 3 hours. "I'm shocked," said Lisa Schmick as she joined the line at Centennial Hall where the line stretched out the door. "I thought everybody voted on the 4th. I thought ...'we're going to beat the lines coming early'". The line there was so long some got frustrated and just gave up. "It's pretty discouraging," said Louis Spicciati, who decided to leave and come back on November 4th. "You've got... koaa http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2121435/posts#comment Sat, 1 Nov 2008 03:25:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2120884/posts I was on a random college football board and someone supposedly posted the numbers, so take it for what's its worth. Keep fighting hard for every vote! (no matter what the polls say) Scout.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2120884/posts#comment Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:17:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2120864/posts A massive shift in younger and older voters is roiling the presidential race according to new data from the Fox News/Opinion Dynamics Poll concluded October 28-29. Younger voters -- under 45 -- once Obama's base, now are evenly divided between the two candidates. But voters over 65 have shifted sharply to the Democrat in the past week. Voters under 45 supported Obama by 52-38 in the Fox News poll of October 21-22. But this week's survey indicates that they now break evenly with 45% supporting Obama and 46% backing McCain. On the other hand, voters 65 and over, who had... Dick Morris http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2120864/posts#comment Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:00:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2120666/posts AUSTIN — Early voting is big in Texas this year. Ten days into this year's 12-day early voting period, 2.7 million people in the state's 15 largest counties had cast their ballots, compared with 1.7 million who had voted at the same point four years ago. ....Democrats are turning out in bigger numbers than Republicans in Harris County, according to one analysis. Early voting historically has been dominated by Republicans. Leland Beatty, a Democratic consultant, said 42 percent of early voters had voted in Democratic primaries and 20.6 percent in Republican primaries. Republican pollster Mike Baselice said he thinks Democratic... Houston Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2120666/posts#comment Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:08:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2120203/posts OBAMA'S EARLY VOTING LEAD IN FLORIDA IS ONLY 7.5% Based on the total early and absentee ballots casted so far(2,979,991.20), and based on both McCain & Obama getting all the party's support, and Obama getting 5% more of independents, according to the latest media polls, Obama is only leading with approx 7.5 % in early voting, while John Kerry led Bush by 16% in early voting and lost to Bush with 5%, and based on reports that Obama is supposed to get a huge lead among early voters and in voter turn out, Barack Obama is about to lose Florida... http://www.mccainpalin.blogspot.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2120203/posts#comment Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:16:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2120080/posts First, the early numbers from Florida look good. Now Nevada. From The Campaign Spot. The guy doing the exit poll of those who have already voted, with 7,147 responses, puts Obama ahead, 50 percent to 48 percent. If Republicans were a lot more of the early voters, McCain would be nervous. If Democrats were a lot more of the early voters, Obama should be nervous. And if they were split even, a 50-48 Obama lead is in the neighborhood of what we would expect. In Clark County, "through Sunday, 55 percent of early voters were Democrats, 29 percent Republicans." "In... The Patriot Room http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2120080/posts#comment Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:50:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2120028/posts This will cheer you. Democrats are beaming that their party is outperforming the Republicans in early voting, releasing numbers Wednesday that show registrants of their party ahead 54 percent to 30 percent among the 1.4 million voters who have gone to the polls early. . . . But party breakdowns for turnout aren't the same as final tallies, and at least one poll offered a different view for the campaign of Republican John McCain. A Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll gave McCain a 49-45 lead over Democrat Barack Obama among Floridians who have already voted. And Republicans continued to show a... The Patriot Room http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2120028/posts#comment Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:47:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2119148/posts Poll gives McCain lead in Florida early voting Florida Today http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2119148/posts#comment Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:36:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2118449/posts They never show up. Ever. Every year, Democrats say they will carry the election with record-breaking youth turnout. And every year they are disappointed. So unless Barry is giving away beer and ipods at the polls, he may be in for a rude awakening. From the Wall Street Journal. There still are warning signs, however, that new voters -- traditionally difficult to get to the polls on Election Day -- could be unreliable. Just 66% of those voters said they would definitely vote this year, compared with 90% of registered voters overall. Additionally, only six in 10 said they were... The Patriot Room http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2118449/posts#comment Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:46:44 GMT