Posted on 10/27/2016 7:03:15 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Why are you posting junk on FR and why is FR allowing it ? You understand the purpose of this is to depress turnout ?
They tried this in 2004 with their exit polls and it bombed.
I’m seeing exactly the same thing up here in the North East; many young voters talking about the election, and every Sanders supporter I’ve met is going Trump.
Nope.
Yep, they have very clear stats that back up their argument. These numbers do look troubling, especially in NV and NC.
Buried in the article at the bottom though is that Trump is likely to win Ohio, Iowa and Georgia based on the same analysis.
Did th nypost see them and change to Trump ones to Hillary ?
There’s no way to make early votes a representative sample.
Sure they do!
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In the last 20 years, the early votes have been the bulk of the fraud.
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Right! Articles like this will keep FReepers from the polls.
She’s so far ahead, no need for you to bother to vote Democrats!
At least 1/3 of them by actual citizens...
Praise God Hillary is not “your girl.” My comments were, of course, directed at the author of the article not the messenger.
Even the story on the MSN website contradicts this. Given the turnout at their respective rallies, I certainly would not assume that Trump has the enthusiasm gap that the Post is implying.
Typical media trying to call the election before all votes are counted.
Taking a page from the DNC/media anti-Trump playbook, couldn’t we say, “Declaring Hillary the winner two weeks before the election undermines democracy and constitutes an attempt to suppress the Trump vote”?
Looked over my ballot yesterday very carefully before submitting. Wanted to make darn sure my votes were exactly as I selected.
First of all, the article states that 12.5 million votes have already been cast, which is “far higher than the rate in 2012.” This is a factually and grammatically incorrect statement, since the word “rate” in this case signifies a percentage of total votes cast, which is unknowable until November 8. The total number may be higher than that cast at the same point in 2012, but nothing else is known at the time. Furthermore the percentage of early votes cast has risen in every election, so I fail to see how this number predicts any outcome.
Then the author writes of North Carolina mail-in ballots that “Democrats currently lead in ballots submitted, 47 percent to 29 percent.” No source is given. Then the writer follows up with the fact that in-person voting is DOWN from 2012.
Moving to Florida, the piece claims that Democrats are ahead of the 2012 pace because they have pulled “virtually even at 21 percent,” which means Republicans are actually ahead. Once more no source is cited.
The next state is from Nevada, where overall ballots are DOWN “but the Democratic lead widened after the start of in-person voting last week. Democrats lead in returned ballots, 46 percent to 35 percent. Ballots from older white voters declined significantly while those from Hispanics and Asian-Americans rose.” Again no source is given.
Of Arizona the piece claims More than 616,000 ballots have been cast with Republicans up by one percent. 25 percent were independent or unknown. Republicans led by more than 7 percent at this point last time. Younger adults and Latinos supposedly voted at a higher rate than before.
In Colorado Republicans trail by six percent when they led by ten points at this time back in 2012. Utah state quote a Democrat source, and show Dems trailing widely. A higher percentage of independent votes is claimed to show possible detection from Trump, but the opposite possibility of siphoning votes from Hillary is not mentioned.
The only Texas data cited is oversll early voting from the top fifteen counties. No party affiliation is released in Texas. The artwork for just cites Hillary’s campaign as believing that higher turnout favors their side.
Overall the piece cherry picks data and interprets every stat to favor Hillary, even in cases where she trails in voting. And what’s missing is interesting. Not one mention of black turnout.
AP - consider the source.
Same outfit that just released a poll showing Hillary with a D +12 lead.
Yup, the election is over, indeed!
How do they know?
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