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WI_DEM

(33,497 posts)
Thu Oct 11, 2012, 10:21 AM Oct 2012

NBC/WSJ poll: 18% of Ohio voters have cast early votes--63% for Obama

Let's keep kicking Early Voting!!!:

Some tidbits from the poll -

In Ohio -

One-in-five respondents (18 percent) said they have already voted, and, of those, almost two-thirds (63 percent) said they voted for Obama...When early voters are taken out of the equation, Obama’s lead shrinks to 48 percent vs. Romney's 46 percent.
"Perhaps the poll is picking up the Obama absentee push,” said Barbara Carvalho, director of the Marist poll.


UPDATE 3:

A word (from a different article) on early voting in Ohio, which increasingly seems to be Pres. Obama's firewall state:


CLEVELAND - Despite continued GOP efforts to suppress early voting, record numbers voted at the Board of Elections here as registration for the critical Nov. 6 election ended Tuesday.
A total of 3,748 voted in person at the board that day, shattering the previous record of 2,438 voting on the last day of registration in 2008. Since early voting began on Oct. 2, a total of 9,038 voted at the board, compared with 5,612 during the same period four years ago.

"This is democracy in action," said a smiling Blaine Griffin, vice chair of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party, as he stood watching the continual parade of early voters coming into the board.

The great majority of early voters were African American, brought by pastors and community groups angered at the relentless effort by Republican Secretary of State Jon Husted and the administration of Gov. John Kasich to suppress their votes.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/11/1142963/-NBC-WSJ-Marist-s-in-VA-OH-FL

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NBC/WSJ poll: 18% of Ohio voters have cast early votes--63% for Obama (Original Post) WI_DEM Oct 2012 OP
Very good. LisaL Oct 2012 #1
Obama's got a machine in Ohio Kolesar Oct 2012 #2
Good to see the strong backlash against voter suppression by the AA community Alekei_Firebird Oct 2012 #3
Ohio is going to be tough for Romney TexasCPA Oct 2012 #4
great news my friend. How many people statewide do they estimate have voted? hrmjustin Oct 2012 #5

Kolesar

(31,182 posts)
2. Obama's got a machine in Ohio
Thu Oct 11, 2012, 10:33 AM
Oct 2012

He started working on it three years ago.
I hope it lasts past his presidency.

TexasCPA

(527 posts)
4. Ohio is going to be tough for Romney
Thu Oct 11, 2012, 10:41 AM
Oct 2012

Democrats are voting early and Romney's stance of the auto bailout are killing him in Ohio. I am sure by Romney's next debate he will start saying that he was for the auto bailout though.

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