NYT-Obama’s Early Voting Advantage

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By DAVID FIRESTONE
CLEVELAND – Having shouted himself hoarse for two days urging supporters to vote, and vote early, President Obama flew to Chicago to do so himself this afternoon, on his way to an evening rally here in Ohio. His campaign says he is the first sitting president to vote for himself ahead of Election Day.

In casting his ballot early, Mr. Obama is providing a very personal endorsement of a system that was enormously successful for him in 2008, and may be the key to his re-election hopes. His narrow win in North Carolina four years ago was driven in large part by early voters, who turned out in larger numbers than those on Election Day, and tended to support Mr. Obama. They also gave him a winning margin in Iowa, Florida and Colorado.

Early voting is popular among those with inflexible work or transportation schedules, who often tend to be lower-income, elderly, or minority voters and are thus more likely to be Democrats. In North Carolina four years ago, more than half the black vote was cast before Election Day, compared to 40 percent of the white vote. In many states, black voters went directly to the polls from church on the Sunday before Election Day.

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While Republicans fought against the tide, the Obama campaign built an early-voting juggernaut. Volunteers have worked for months to identify voters most likely to use the system, offering them encouragement, instruction and transportation. The campaign estimates that 40 percent of the country’s votes will be cast before Nov. 6, compared to about 31 percent last time, and a Time Magazine poll out this week said the president has won 60 percent of the early votes so far in Ohio.

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http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/25/obamas-early-voting-advantage/

[BumRushDaShow]

1. K&R

[Cha]

2. It's a Great Inspiring Example that Pres Obama has made..

Early Voting just makes Good Sense. Not everyone can get to the polls and stand in line for hours on only that one day.

Of course the goprigs Are Against Early Voting.

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

3. The goprigs are against any voting

Except for them

[Cha]

4. Thanks for adding that important fact, ItsThe MediaStupid..

And, Yes, I Agree! It Is THe Media. I'm heartened that more and more people are getting that.

I got it full blown in 2002 when I put a black out on all media. There's plenty of proof on the net they've only gotten exponentially Worse.

[LisaL]

5. SOS Husted send every registered voter in OH an absentee ballot application.

Presumably because republicans normally outperform democrats in absentee voting.
Come election day, if there are a lot of absentee ballots still hasn't been counted, we might not even know the results if its close.

[Skittles]

6. I am voting early tomorrow

yes INDEED

[Merlot]

7. Vote early/vote by mail puts a damper on repub voter intimidation

Vote by mail, no need to show ID. No standing in line for hours and being "supervised" by voter intimidation squads. No voting "machines" owned by rmoney surrogates.

Someday all voter registrations will be online, and this whole throwing away of registrations, paying money for registrations, and filling out fraud registrations for the bounty will all be a thing of the past.

The repubs are using an old playbook and the rest of us are moving forward.