I guess I will believe it when I see it up there that Romney got 64 million.
Some of these ballots still aren’t counted because of the new early voting processes. These new early voting options are KILLING the GOP.
What I think has happened the last two elections is that these long early voting periods allow the Dems plenty of time to go out in their union paid vans and roust up all their inner city voters, senior home voters, deliver absentee ballots to the homeless, etc. In some states they have 4-5 weeks to do this now.
In the past, they needed to get all those deadbeats and mentally incapacitated people to the polls on one day. That was hard work and a logistical nightmare.
Now, I know the GOP early vote was better this year. But after talking with my friends and family, I learned that probably 50% of them early voted. These are hard core conservatives who vote in every election. They just love early voting because it doesn’t interfere with their jobs and families. So I think despite Rove’s white board and Larry Schweikart on here saying we were winning the early vote, I think we just cannibalized our good regular election day voters.
To me that is the single largest lesson from Tuesday. The GOP flat out has to find more voters and get them to vote early. Certainly candidate, message, etc are all needed. But that early vote strategy with non regular voters needs to be employed by us.
In the past, they needed to get all those deadbeats and mentally incapacitated people to the polls on one day. That was hard work and a logistical nightmare.
This.
It matters. They are probably getting a couple million extra votes this way. There is no real reversing this early voting nonsense, we are just going to have to emulate it. It's harder for us considering the Dem machine voters are in confined urban areas, but we are just going to have to figure out how to compete.