WASHINGTON, Oct. 21, 2010 (CBS/AP) Updated 7:54 a.m. ET
The first Figures on Early Balloting Show GOP Gains on 2008 Numbers, But Democrats Hold Edge in Some Key States
Election Day is already over for more than 3 million Americans, and a surprising number of them are Democrats.
Republicans clearly are gaining ground in turning out early voters compared with their showing two years ago, but figures from the first batch of states that offer clues about 2010 early voting patterns still give Democrats an edge in a number of states and big counties.
If people thought the Democrats were just going to roll over and play dead in this election, that's not what we're seeing," said Michael McDonald, a George Mason University professor who tracks early voting nationally. "They've got to be feeling a little bit better with the numbers that they're seeing.
With 30 percent or more of all votes likely to be cast early, both sides are going all-out to lock in supporters' ballots early. And for the first time in a midterm election, they're combining traditional shoe-leather canvassing and get-out-the-vote rallies with technological tools and text messaging.
While it's impossible to tell for whom people are voting, Democrats so far are casting ballots at a faster clip than Republicans in Iowa, Maryland, North Carolina and Nevada's heavily Democratic Clark County, which supplied two-thirds of the state's voters in 2008.
Rightardia is not surprised because the Obama's Organizing for America (OFA) made a huge effort to get Democrats to order absentee ballots in the 2008 election. In Florida, if you check a box on the back of the envelope of the absentee ballot and you get another absentee ballot for the next election.
As long as you keep checking the box on back of the absentee ballot's envelope, you will never have to go to the polls.
This is a great way to counter the vote suppression streategies of the GOP. In the 2008 election cycle intersections were blocked to polling booths in minority neighborhoods. There have also been recent reports of the GOP trying to cage votes in Wisconsin. In Florida, the GOP has passed laws requiring additional identification to vote at a poll.
Absentee voting bypasses all of the traps the GOP lays out to suppress Democratic voting at the polls.
source: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/10/21/politics/main6977597.shtml?tag=nl.e875
Election Day is already over for more than 3 million Americans, and a surprising number of them are Democrats.
Republicans clearly are gaining ground in turning out early voters compared with their showing two years ago, but figures from the first batch of states that offer clues about 2010 early voting patterns still give Democrats an edge in a number of states and big counties.
If people thought the Democrats were just going to roll over and play dead in this election, that's not what we're seeing," said Michael McDonald, a George Mason University professor who tracks early voting nationally. "They've got to be feeling a little bit better with the numbers that they're seeing.
With 30 percent or more of all votes likely to be cast early, both sides are going all-out to lock in supporters' ballots early. And for the first time in a midterm election, they're combining traditional shoe-leather canvassing and get-out-the-vote rallies with technological tools and text messaging.
While it's impossible to tell for whom people are voting, Democrats so far are casting ballots at a faster clip than Republicans in Iowa, Maryland, North Carolina and Nevada's heavily Democratic Clark County, which supplied two-thirds of the state's voters in 2008.
Rightardia is not surprised because the Obama's Organizing for America (OFA) made a huge effort to get Democrats to order absentee ballots in the 2008 election. In Florida, if you check a box on the back of the envelope of the absentee ballot and you get another absentee ballot for the next election.
As long as you keep checking the box on back of the absentee ballot's envelope, you will never have to go to the polls.
This is a great way to counter the vote suppression streategies of the GOP. In the 2008 election cycle intersections were blocked to polling booths in minority neighborhoods. There have also been recent reports of the GOP trying to cage votes in Wisconsin. In Florida, the GOP has passed laws requiring additional identification to vote at a poll.
Absentee voting bypasses all of the traps the GOP lays out to suppress Democratic voting at the polls.
source: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/10/21/politics/main6977597.shtml?tag=nl.e875
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