Posted on 10/28/2012 5:48:56 AM PDT by Arthurio
DENVER — Republicans appear to be winning the voter-turnout battle so far in the crucial swing state of Colorado, according to figures released Friday by the state Secretary of State.
A breakdown of voter turnout by party shows that Republicans have cast 244,263 votes, or 39 percent of the total, while 225,850 Democrats have voted, representing 36 percent. Another 149,877 unaffiliated votes have also cast ballots for 23.9 percent of the total.
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Four years ago, Colorado Democrats had the early-voting advantage. Figures posted on the KUSA-TV website show that on Oct. 23, 2008, Democrats represented 40 percent of the early voters while Republicans made up 33 percent and unaffiliated voters came in at 27 percent.
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We need CO, WI to counter OH. I believe Obama has Ohio rigged for massive fraud.
Romney will win here in November.
In the last ten presidential elections, the Centennial State has gone for a Democrat only twice - Clinton in 1992 and Obama in 2008.
We need CO, WI and NH if we lose OH.
I’m in schizophrenic Ohio and we have in the past, been mostly a red state. I thought that Colorado used to be red as well - thanks for sharing this.
I don’t like the idea of early voting at all, but I also just don’t get why either party would take stock in early voting numbers. The result that counts is the one on Election Day, right? Or is there some concern that they lose votes by waiting? In other words, why would I want to vote early?
CO along with NC, VA and FL are SAFE states and even the President knows that.
The Governor will sweep them with no issues
Focus is now on OH, WI, IA and NH, which I believe the Governor will win
MN, MI, OR and PA are my ultimate dream states and if we win those I am buying y’all a 18 year Single Malt
If you are right, Lagavulin for me!
If you are right, Lagavulin for me!
If you are right, Lagavulin for me!
I am a Macallan 18 kinda guy myself ;-)
But your whisky is reserved, my good lady
I have a feeling that instead of OH, CO will be the state that decides the election. If 0bama takes OH and Romney takes WI and NH, CO will decide the election, I think.
Its all about manipulating the herd.
Remember in 2000 the great hand wringing over early reporting? Well now the early reporting can come days or weeks early. I’m surprised we don’t have voter amnesty days where voters can vote late.
As far as I’m concerned, voting should be a single day event with no exit polling or tally reporting till all the votes are counted nationwide.
Conservatives like to pride ourselves on independence of thought but unfortunately many are little different than liberals when it comes to the herding instinct.
I keep being told early voting stats don’t matter! Well?
The Republican party has learned to be very very good at this ground game business - in Wisconsin in 2010, it was the main reason for the Great Red Tide that swept in Scott Walker and a Republican Majority in the Senate and Assembly. Our process in Wisconsin of identifying and contacting Republican voters was futher perfected during the endless recall elections over the past two years.
The chair of Romney for Wisconsin was on Talk Radio encouraging everyone who could to vote early - that way the ground game on election day can be all the more targeted to make sure every voter gets to the polls.
And the architect of this process? None other than Reince Preibus, who now sits at the head of the RNC, spreading the word on how important an efficient ground game is to winning.
The Dems, on the other hand, use early voting for what I call Push-Pull-Drag. They literally drag people off the streets and push them to vote Dem regardless of what they know or don't know about the election.
It's a very good thing that they are behind in that effort, because you can only do so much of that on election day.
“If 0bama takes OH and Romney takes WI and NH, CO will decide the election, I think.”
I’m on the ground here. Stop worrying about us. Romney will win Colorado. It is no longer a swing state. UAF’s are polling at least Romney +10 and early voting numbers mean that R’s are turning out in greater numbers than D’s. Colorado is red this year.
I believe Colorado will go Romney as well. There simply aren’t the Obama stickers and yard signs we had the last time but there are loads of Romney stiockers and yard signs. I can’t even get people to admit they voted for Obama last time.
Just keep the CU students away from the polls on Tuesday!
Just keep the CU students away from the polls on Tuesday!
There seems to be more energy and enthusiasm with Romney, despite the Democratic Party run MSM attempts to coverup facts about Obama. Independent voters are seeing the other side of the coin. Obama is different than the MSM portrays him and Romney is not the person MSM presents.
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