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Lets see democrats are leading rethugs in voter registration but yet O is loosing ground (Original Post) bigdarryl Oct 2012 OP
I don't think newly registered voters are captured in likely voter screens, bigdarryl Blaukraut Oct 2012 #1
true zach1845 Oct 2012 #2
looking good politicman Oct 2012 #3
IA seems to be in good shape and OH Maximumnegro Oct 2012 #4
Yeah, we are doing everything wrong. Have been all along. bemildred Oct 2012 #5

Blaukraut

(5,693 posts)
1. I don't think newly registered voters are captured in likely voter screens, bigdarryl
Fri Oct 12, 2012, 11:58 PM
Oct 2012

So the polls may actually be off a bit because of that.

 

zach1845

(30 posts)
2. true
Sat Oct 13, 2012, 02:19 AM
Oct 2012

But for some reason Dems always no matter what have a early voting advantage. I believe I read it is because most older/married people are used to going to vote at a specific time and place and dont want to change it up.
Still a good sign. but it is the norm

 

politicman

(710 posts)
3. looking good
Sat Oct 13, 2012, 02:25 AM
Oct 2012

The question is not are DEMS leading in early voting (because they are and always have),

The question should be what kind of levels are early voting compared to those of 2008 when Obama won by a landslide.

At this moment, it looks good.

In some place DEMS have outnumbered their early voting counts of 2008, which can only be a good thing.

If DEMS are able to keep this pace of early voting up then they should match their totals of 2008 and we all know what happened in that year.

The real question, IS will DEM early voting slow down as the weeks go on?

Maximumnegro

(1,134 posts)
4. IA seems to be in good shape and OH
Sat Oct 13, 2012, 02:27 AM
Oct 2012

is also strong. Guess we'll get more from PPP tomorrow on that. Doesn't matter if we win OH by 4 pts or 1pt, as long as we win...

bemildred

(90,061 posts)
5. Yeah, we are doing everything wrong. Have been all along.
Sat Oct 13, 2012, 06:50 AM
Oct 2012

It's a mircale we got this far.

We especially need to make a lot of big ad buys with strings, so the talking heads will say nice things again.


Edit: obilgatory

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