Posted on 11/06/2012 6:53:26 AM PST by rlbedfor
Mitt Romney already has 697,143 votes before the polls opened a couple of hours ago, while Barack Obama only has 605,546, a difference of almost 92,000 votes. The data is time-stamped at 2:03 ET this morning, and the link on the front page of the site reads, “Early voters: How Ohio has voted.”
A few counties have not yet reported any early-voting results, but one county in particular looks huge. Cuyahoga, which includes Cleveland, should be a Democratic stronghold, and perhaps the one area where Democratic early-voting efforts should have produced their biggest lead. Instead, Romney has a lead of about 14,000 votes already, 127,570 to 113,373. In Hamilton County, where Cincinnati itself is located, Romney leads by over 5,000, 29,969 to 24,808. A quick scan of the data shows Romney leading in every county with more than 25,000 EVs.
This may be a very big deal, if these numbers are correct.
Freeper made video featuring a FR clip:You Shouldn't vote...(for Obama) hits 1,100 views.
My knowledge of Ohio is pretty limited, but shouldn’t Romney have a bigger lead in Cincinnati? I thought that was Republican territory...
Don’t believe it. To early to tell. By early evening if the trend hold up then maybe.
And also remember that just tells them how many votes need to be made up.
The socialists got the 0bamacare win. Now it’s OUR turn.
And they assume that ALL (D) voters vote for Obozo. That ain’t necessarily so.............
Just passing along. If these are true, Obama is so going to loose as historically D’s are ahead in early voting in OH and then the R’s come in on Tuesday to overcome the early voting lead ( or not ).
These would be actual early votes if the story is true.
That’s about 20% more for Romney than for Obama, and Dems are supposedly the bigger early voters.
...”historically D’s are ahead in early voting in OH and then the R’s come in on Tuesday to overcome the early voting lead”....after they get off work......LOL.
Can’t imagine those numbers are accurate.
Hope so because it would point to a blowout Romney win in Ohio, but most are expecting Obama to have anywhere between a 10% to 25% lead in the early voting numbers there.
They crammed down 0bamacare,
time to retaliate and cram down an enforcement of the enumerated powers.
Any existing policy or law that does not specifically satisfy an Article I, Section 8 category is up for review and removal.
How would anyone know how the early vote turned out? I thought they were not tallied until election day?
WUH-HUT?! Wooooooooooooowwwww!!!
That report only showed 55000 votes counted so far for Cincinnati so 5000 is a big lead.
You’re confusing early voting with absentee/provisional ballots.
If Romney is up in Ohio by 92K in early voting, paint Ohio red on the map. It was reported yesterday that the Obama campaign would “declare victory” based on early returns in Ohio in order to discourage and demoralize the Romney vote. This situation, if indeed true, would put the shoe on the other foot.
R 53.5%
About right?
Hopeful but not expectant. Don’t want to be crushed by wishful thinking.
Do you mean the early votes are calculated ahead of time, but the provisional/absentees are not? Help me out here!
For the statistically inclined, here is a link to the 2008 vote in Ohio. Scroll down a bit for the county-by-county tabulation.
For the statistically inclined, here is a link to the 2008 vote in Ohio. Scroll down a bit for the county-by-county tabulation.
Obama will have a lead coming out of early voting (which includes absentees in Ohio's tally); what matters is how large the lead is. In 2008, he netted more than 300,000 votes in the early period, and won the state by 262,000. This time, he's down at least 125,000 so far (as of yesterday, some votes are still coming in this morning).
Our peeps on Twitter (including LS) think we need to get about a 6% turnout margin today to win, and the last Dispatch poll showed Romney winning in-person voters by 11%. It'll be close (I think), but I think we pull it off.
Sorry about the double post. I got a “Server Error” on my first try. FreeRepublic has been slow and glitchy lately, probably due to interest in the election.
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They are just going by party affiliation of those who voted, not actually the votes themselves........
And they assume that ALL (D) voters vote for Obozo. That ain’t necessarily so.............
I don’t how they handle, count or process, early votes. I doubt they have been counted as of yet.
However news sites construct articles/data for publishing at some later time and this isn’t the first time something meant to go live at a later time has slipped though. Chances are this is an article being constructed to go live later today or after the polls close.
People need to have a strong shot in the arm of 2004......these kind of early voting figures were touted by Dems causing a tidal wave of motivated late Bush voters.......
until them polls close, it is healthy to believe this is on a knife edgde...healthy for the campaign that is, not your average FReepers health!
They are just going by party affiliation of those who voted, not actually the votes themselves........
You're ruining my breakfast. ;)
What is your source?
As far as I know, that’s exactly the case.
Early votes are counted, because they are electronic.
Provisionals and absentees are only opened and counted if their total count exceeds the margin of victory.
Wow! Yes! Yes! Yes!
“I doubt they have been counted as of yet.”
It looks to me like they have been counted:
http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20121106/NEWS010601/311060015/?nclick_check=1
Thoughts on this?
The Democrats might even muster an early lead, but once all the Republicans get out of work and vote, it will go the other way very quickly
This is EARLY VOTING.
Doesn’t look like all of the precincts have reported early voting numbers. The fact that the total is already at 24% of the expected vote leads me to believe this is bogus data.
You went from OH is definitely going R leading up to today to “i think we can pull it off.”
Yikes.
My understanding is that Ohio doesn’t release the early vote counts until after all polls close this evening, so either this is a major leak, or it’s fake data.
The Ohio Secretary of State's office. :) I suspect the Gannett story was based on a pollster's model of the EV stats but that they forgot about voters who didn't vote in the primary.
I'm not worried, however - the cut in Barry's margins will be significant, and I think we more than make up the difference today. Keep in mind that Barry's campaign has been hammering their drones to vote early for two months, and yet they are still way down in some of their largest counties. At the same time, GOP early turnout has significantly increased. My guess is that it will still be close, but Romney has an edge. if we turnout like we did in 2004, we win.
so the Dem counties do not report yet because they wait for the republican counties to report and then the Dems know how many votes to pull out of their cars and those boxes which have been stuffed in the corners of some buildings
They must have posted the numbers so the frauds get a head start.
Ohio must have different laws than Florida. Here, NO ballots are counted before election night. Absentees and EV all get counted at the same time as regular..........
” A Cincinnati.com front-page link to a chart with dummy data, created as a design template for election results, was inadvertently posted early Tuesday morning.
It purported to show early voting totals in Ohio counties. However, no votes have been counted yet – by law counting doesn’t start until the polls close.
Cincinnati.com regrets the error.”
an aside the link still works: Ohio presidential vote by counties
(Drudge --CLAIM: Early count in Ohio gives Romney 92,000 vote lead...)
Please Folks don’t get sucker punched by every news item that comes out instead FAST and Pray like you never have before. GO out and DRAG family folk, friends anyone that is voting for Romney to the BOOTH!! Find time to get on your knees and PRAY, PRAY and ask God, the God who can move mountains of impossibility by faith to give Romney/Ryan a victory tonight!!! WE NEED YOU MORE THAN EVER LORD JESUS...HELP US win this BATTLE against EVIL!! WE BEG THEE!!
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