Posted on 11/03/2008 2:38:29 PM PST by Repeal The 17th
Early Voting Statistics as of 11/03/08 Number of ballots voted in person: 1,778,317 Number of mail-in ballots returned: 242,522 Total Number of ballots cast: 2,020,839
Turn out Demographics: Black Female 442,843 Black Male 262,360 White Female 677,667 White Male 542,449 Asian Female 6,889 Asia Male 5,128 Hispanic Female 8,625 Hispanic Male 6,289 Native American Female 160 Native American Male 137 Other 68,292 Total 2,020,839
Top 5 Counties in turn out: 1. Dekalb: 178,140 2. Fulton: 168,443 3. Cobb: 144,015 4. Gwinnett: 107,938 5. Henry: 69,064
Early Voting Statistics as of 11/03/08
Number of ballots voted in person: 1,778,317
Number of mail-in ballots returned:
242,522 Total Number of ballots cast: 2,020,839
Turn out Demographics:
Black Female 442,843
Black Male 262,360
White Female 677,667
White Male 542,449
Asian Female 6,889
Asia Male 5,128
Hispanic Female 8,625
Hispanic Male 6,289
Native American Female 160
Native American Male 137
Other 68,292 Total 2,020,839
Top 5 Counties in turn out:
1. Dekalb: 178,140
2. Fulton: 168,443
3. Cobb: 144,015
4. Gwinnett: 107,938
5. Henry: 69,064
What a pity that we have to define people by RACE ... .
Anyway, I can read it better when listed like this.
So what PARTY Is winning?
Wake from your long sleep oh media weary Georgian conservatives!! VOTE VOTE VOTE!!!!
LOL.
Blacks constitute 35% of all voters so far. I’d imagine this is considerably greater than blacks representation of the overall population in Georgia.
DeKalb is heavily liberal and much of Fulton is except for the northern tip, and, of course, they are the most populated counties. Cobb, Gwinnett and Henry are conservative. Hopefully, a ton of absentee ballots are received today and tomorrow. I’m a little surprised there aren’t more.
Well, you can write off Dekalb and Fulton (except North Fulton)...they’ll go Democrat. Cobb and Gwinnett will go Republican....going North on ones I know, Cherokee and Pickens will be Republican, probably Gilmer too except for the traditional holdouts. Henry, probably a mix of the two.
Don’t sweat it:
GA will EASILY fall for McCain/Palin.
You’re going to see blacks representation higher in the urban areas just like anywhere else. That’s how they got control of Atlanta, Macon, etc..... While they control Atlanta, they don’t control any county around it.
And Forsyth. We’ll go McCain by a factor of about 4 to 1...
In 2004, black represented 25% of the total vote in GA.
DeKalb - Heavy Democratic.
Fulton - Split. Southern half is city of Atlanta, heavy Democrat. Nothern part is heavier Republican.
Cobb - This would be a more “Georgia/Southern Democrat” county. I suspect it will be mostly Republican in the presidential election, but will have a large percentage of Democrats.
Gwinnett - Heavily Republican (John Linder district.)
Henry - Not really sure, has elected a Republican congressman, but south of Atlanta has been more Democratic historically.
Henry already has move votes than all of 2004 in just the early vote.
“In 2004, black represented 25% of the total vote in GA.”
And in 2005 they made up 35% of the population of GA. Based on both statistics, and the fact that Obama has really pushed the early voting, it doesn’t appear that black in Georgia are voting in significantly high percentages.
Is that good or bad?
And 29% of registered voters.
Bottom line? Democrats for Obama are going to do whatever, WHATEVER it takes to win. It is literally going to be like dealing with a two-year old hopped up on sugar trying to make them take a nap.
IT was a 67% Bush County in 04, even if it drops to say 62% just time it good I guess.
I beleive GA is approx. 30% AA, very heavliy concentrated in DeKalb and Fulton counties.
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