Posted on 11/07/2016 8:59:36 AM PST by glorgau
WASHINGTON, D.C. — With over seven million votes cast so far in the U.S. presidential election, early voting data is pointing to a tight race in most key battleground states.
But there is one battleground upon which the Donald Trump campaign appears to be headed towards utter defeat: The fight for votes from World War I veterans.
With at least 25,000 World War I veterans casting their votes thus far, the party affiliation breakdown of submitted ballots is suggesting a hard break towards the Clinton camp among veterans who fought in the Great War from 1914-1918, sources say.
Some 98 percent of ballots cast from the demographic have been from veterans who are registered Democrats.
“This is tremendous news for the Hillary Clinton campaign and for the Democratic Party,” said Donna Brazile, interim chairperson of the Democratic National Committee. “We knew that if we could get a strong turnout among the doughboy demographic, we could win this election.”
Other Democratic Party operatives have been coordinating a strong grassroots campaign to register veterans to vote and ensure their ballots are submitted ahead of voting deadlines.
“I’ve been knocking on doors, searching public records to track people down, all sorts of things to identify vets and ensure their ballots make it to a mailbox,” said Andrew Spieles, a college student at James Madison University who is associated with Young Virginia Democrats. “I’m proud to say that I’ve personally registered sixteen World War I vets to vote in the last two weeks, and all of them have indicated their intention to vote for Hillary Clinton.”
Democratic lawmakers expressed their satisfaction with the success of the grassroots operations.
“Winning elections is not about your message as much as it is about voter turnout, so I’m proud of our efforts to get these veterans registered and their votes submitted early,” said Christina ‘Tita’ Ayala, a Connecticut state Representative elected to office on the Democratic ticket. “Vote early and vote often, I always like to say.”
Unfortunately, all World War I veterans we tried to contact declined to comment on the record.
LOL. But are Civil War veterans also breaking for Hillary?
Along with vets from the Spanish American.
They’re all dead.
“We’re dead, and we vote!”
Heck! You should check out what those revolutionary was vets are going for.
This cannot be true.
My WWI great grandfather (may he rest in peace) would NEVER vote for someone like Hillary. I’m calling BS on this!
Also breaking for Hillary in large numbers:
-Former crew members of the Titanic
-Alamo defenders
-Flight 19 airmen
The author is saying that Hillary is getting the dead vote, like all Dems do.
who did tecumseh Sherman vote for? s/
If they are not dead....then they are voting for FDR.....
According to the NY slimes in 2013, only 75 were still alive!!!!!
What about the Peloponnesian War vets?
Make Sparta Great Again!
Yes; and yes; but the dead ALWAYS support DemoncRATs!
Who has the Arkancide list? They will probably want to vote for Trump.
You can put this under Ripley’s Believe it or Not.
In 2012, Philadelphia had more than 215 people vote for Obama, all of which were born prior to the year 1900.
Yep, this means they were all more than 112 years old. Not a single one of these geezers voted for Romney.
zero today
My Dad was a disabled WWI vet, he died when he was 78.
He would be turning over in his grave if he knew that his buddies were voting for Clintoon from their graves.
Just a little historical note:
Last World War I vet in United States was Frank Buckles, who died on 27 February 2011 at 110 years old.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/02/27/wwi.veteran.death/
Nice one.
My grandfather fought in WWI. I remember him saying he lied about his age to get in.
He died 20 years ago at the age of 98.
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