Posted on 11/04/2008 11:29:09 AM PST by TitansAFC
Republicans Kept Pace in Colorado's Early Voting
These results from early voting in Colorado are fascinating.
Out of 1,704,280 "early votes" cast, over 50% of registered voters, the percentage breakdown was:
Dem 33.44% (569,875) Rep 32.64% (556,241) Ind. 24.71% (421,124)
The print edition of this story shows a graphic with the following information:
Voting by absentee ballot:
Total 1,339,065
Rep. 441,841 Dem. 441,203 Ind. 311,196
Voting by early voting:
Total 365,215
Dem. 128,672 Rep. 114,400
If I remember correctly, Republicans traditionally have an advantage in early voting in Colorado, so this isn't unalloyed good news. But I generally concur with the Colorado reader who noticed this that "Republicans held their own in both types of early voting in Colorado despite the unprecedented effort by Democrats to get a jump; only 8/10s of 1 percent difference... which casts doubt on the higher Democrat party ID in recent polls."
The Oct. 30 Marist poll, for example, had Obama leading early voters, 59 to 41. Now, perhaps there are a lot of Obamacans in this state, or perhaps the independents overwhelmingly preferred Obama. But then again, maybe not.
It's possible that most of the voters who show up today are Democrats, and it's possible that the independents prefer Obama. But judging from the party breakdown of early voting, the Democrats have not yet generated any signficant Party ID advantage among the state's electorate as a whole.
Not Nearly Enough!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
McCain/Palin looking VERY GOOD right now in Colorado!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I made multiple posts over the weekend pointing out this. This is indisputable proof that the stupid party ID models from the pollsters have been peddling are totally bogus.
...for Colorado.
Also, don’t forget the PUMA factor - just because Dems are voting doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re voting for Obama.
And what weightings were Zogby, Gallup, Battleground, and the rest using for their polling data? LOL!
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Puma! Puma! Puma!
Excellent.
All the news I get with REAL DATA encourages me — and it’s always opposite of the the MSM/Polling guesswork & propaganda.
c’mon colorado!
just to show how even these numbers can be skewed, albeit unintentionally. i am a registered democratic in colorado (to vote for dick lamm in the primary in 1990). i have never changed my affiliation so i am one of those early voting democratics but i NEVER voted for a democratic in a national election.
btw calling it the democrat party and them democratics really annoys them. of course, calling them fascsists really confusses them because, to them, communism isn’t fascism.
Early voting is just step one of voter fraud. Vote early, then vote many times via absentee ballot, then show up at the polls (early and often) and vote yet again.
Some states may have rules in place to stop those sorts of shenanigans (but who enforces the rules, eh?), but only if Colorado can clamp down on Massive Democrat Vote Fraud do we have a realistic chance there.
There certainly was massive vote fraud in Boulder back in 2004 (and Denver too, surely) and nothing was done about that. Bush won the state anyway, but the fraud machine is in top gear for 2008.
I voted a little while ago in Loveland Colorado. Now mind you it is a conservative very red area. I rarely have to look at Obama signs. I took a snack, my sony so I could listen to Rush while I waited and a copy of the proposed ballot.
I went into the voting place, walked up showed my ID, two poll watchers and about 8 voters were present. I was in and out in 10 minutes.
I doesn’t take long - I always vote No on the Judges because no one should get a free pass. Luckily they had all of the Right to work stuff in one area and the union stuff in another area.
Most everyone has voted already.
Or the "Chaos" factor.
We re-registered Dem this spring, so we could vote against Obama twice.
we didn't have to worry about local races, and it was obvious by the time we vote in June that Hillary was not going to be the winning.
Now we were getting polled as Dems, and lied like rugs.
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